Plan to list House check abusers
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(AI ’) Ropubli
can Ifticr•• pro
post'd Wednesday
publicly identifying .ill 355 cur
run! and former House mem
bers who wrote overdrafts at
the chamber's bank during a
di-month period Twenty-four
would be lalreled abusers
The plan also would Identify
House members who did not
write l»ad checks during the pc
riod It will tx1 presented Thurs
day to all Republicans, who
previously bat ked full disclo
sure, but could not agree on the
details.
Sponsors of the full (list In
sure resolution demand that
Demot rats permit a vote on the
plan Friday, as an alternative to
a much smaller publii listing
baiked In the House ethics
committee
'Idle House Dmilix rail! lead
erxhip is supporting the com
mittec, which voted 10 4 last
week to identity only 10 cur
rent and five former members
as abusers
All others who held accounts
at the bank during the to
months, which ended last ()< '
.i, could request a letter show
ing their overdrafts and de< ide
w hether to make it publu
Kep Naurs I, Johnson ol
Connecticut, one of the Kepub
Ilian sponsors, said it will be
politically difficult lor anyone
to vote against lull disclosure
on the floor
"How would you like to vote
against full disclosure7" John
son said she would ask any wa
vering lawmakers, referring to
the explanations they would
have to make to constituents
Johnson and three other Repub
licans supplied the four nega
tive votes on the etlik x commit
tee
The Republic an plan would
• Reveal the number ol bad
chocks written by current and
former memliers who had a<
counts at the (sink during the
11 month period under review
The committee has said l!1f>
current and 51 former House
members wrote at least one
rubber chei k during the ill
months, Jiefore the bank was
closed for good late last year
• Retain the etjnr s committee's
"worst abuser" criteria lor tJie
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11 current and five former
members These account hold
ers overdrew their tia lane es fiv
more than tlieir next pave hot k.
20 percent of the- .10 months
This amounted to eight months
for those who had accounts the
full period
• Release the1 extensive mfor
mation available on these 2-t
and -12 others The t>!> represent
the group w hose ac counts were
ret onslruc Ic'd in detail by con
gressiona! investigators The in
formation on the f>tc Inc hides
the numlier of had c hoc ks writ
ten. the numlier not honored
arid returned to the account
holder, the dates of the first and
last rubber checks, and the
number of months the bad
checks exceeded the members
next pave hoe k
• Provide the- number ol had
e hex ks and the dates ol the first
and last c hee ks for the' remain
der ol the account holders dur
mg thi' ;)‘l months The com
'nut lee does not have’ the' more
rt>mplots' information on these
niettihers
• Adopt the ethic s committee
propos.il to allow It) days after
passage before publit release of
the list of 24 This would allow
them to demonstrate in private
that the information was faulty
• Release all remaining names
20 day s after passage
Before the I'.OI’ leadership
agreed to the plan, a meeting ol
all Republicans had failed to re
solve differences over releasing
information that was not uni
form for all bank i ustomers
But the resolution sponsors
said they decided the public
had the right to timely disc lo
sure, despite the uneven release
of ac count information
1’residenl Bush also weighed
In for a complete list, telling re
porters at the While House on
Wednesday. I think full ills
closure ol something of this na
lure is Important I agree that
it s the way to go and I think
inevitably it will happen
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