“Eric Massa” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five winners of special House and Senate elections will be sworn in before the rest of the freshman class. (more)

Two days after The Daily Caller requested comment from Free Press for a story about the group’s violation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the pro-net neutrality nonprofit that has repeatedly criticized the FCC for its opaque dealings with the telecommunications industry finally decided to respond. (more)

Free Press, the public face of the net neutrality movement, is a moral see-saw when it comes to transparency. (more)

The Democrats have an impending problem surfacing at an inopportune time, the investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) by the House Ethics Committee.  This comes as a surprise to many — the House has an Ethics Committee? (more)

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” email list-serv. (more)

A conservative watchdog group filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Election Commission alleging that then-Rep. Eric Massa’s campaign violated campaign laws and seeking an investigation into a $40,000 payment to his chief of staff the day after Massa announced his campaign was ending. (more)

Then-Rep. Eric Massa used a campaign account to pay $40,000 to his chief of staff – a central figure in the story of allegations that Massa sexually harassed his aides — just before resigning his western New York House seat early last month, according to federal campaign finance records. (more)

Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents. (more)

Vice President Joe Biden’s NCAA basketball bracket is still flawless going into the Final Four, a feat that none of the other 5.5 million participants in this year’s online bracket competitions has even come close to achieving, sources within the White House confirmed late Wednesday to The Daily Caller. (more)

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The Daily Caller has confirmed with two anonymous sources who attended a December ’09 party at which former Rep. Eric Massa was also a guest, that the below blind item from Politico quotes the disgraced former New York congressman: (more)

Eight days ago the political world took notice to a freshman congressman from the Finger Lakes region in New York. It was not due to his political savvy, his fundraising skills or any possible legislation. No, word of a scandal came out and now voters across the country know who Eric Massa is, and as each day goes by, we learn more and more about what he has done. (more)

Are Democrats marching toward a health-care bill behind the scenes, or are they slipping backwards? (more)

At any given moment, there are a number of feuds being played out in Washington: Harry Reid vs. Mitch McConnell, Eric Massa vs. tickle-averse staffers, Michael Steele vs. everyone. But signs are emerging that we might finally be able to close the door on an outside-the-Beltway spat, this one stretching from New York to Hotlanta: Ludacris vs. Bill O’Reilly. (more)

What an awesome week for all kinds of crazy. If aliens had landed on our planet, they would have watched as: the world’s most celebrated movie stars snored through a bizarre, seventeen-hour interpretive dance at the Oscars; Rep. Patrick Kennedy lost his effing mind on the House floor; Glenn Beck and Eric Massa out-crazied each other over some exotic birth ritual called “kill the old guy;” and a Pennsylvania woman opened a dating service for lonely jihadists. Slip into a straight jacket and follow me into this padded room, Crazy, because you just had the best week ever! (more)

Rep. Barney Frank, the openly gay Democrat from Massachusetts who endured his own sex scandal two decades ago, said nothing inappropriate occurred between one of his staffers and former Rep. Eric Massa. (more)

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) introduced a bill Thursday calling for the House ethics committee to restart its probe of ex-representative Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), as Republicans seek to focus attention on what Democratic leaders knew about Massa’s behavior and when they knew it. (more)

UPDATE – 3 p.m. – Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, explained why he voted to refer the Republican request for an investigation to the Ethics Committee, rather than directing the committee to investigate. (more)

House Republicans are offering a privileged resolution today that calls for an investigation of Democrats’ handling of Rep. Erica Massa’s ethics case, Rep. John Boehner just announced. (more)