Under pressure from House leaders, Conyers on Sunday stepped aside as the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee while awaiting an investigation of his case by the House Ethics Committee. He has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate his case. Lisa Bloom, the lawyer for Con­yers’s accuser, is asking the House Ethics Committee to subpoena her client to allow her to testify in the ethics investigation. “I think it’s unfair that he is speaking out and saying sexual harassment never took place,” Bloom said Monday. [How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct]Also Monday, Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.)

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2017 00:56 UTC