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Published: 10/7/09

Sen. John Ensign: I Broke No Law, and I Won't Resign

By  Sally Denton - Politics Daily
Sen. John Ensign: I Broke No Law, and I Won't Resign

Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign, under increasing attack following his affair with a staffer, told CNN Tuesday he did not break Senate ethics rules by helping to secure a lobbying job for the woman's husband. "I said in the past, I recommended him for jobs just like I've recommended a lot of people," Ensign told CNN. "But we absolutely did nothing except for comply exactly with what the ethics laws and the ethics rules of the Senate state. We were very careful in everything that we did." Meanwhile, two Nevada talk show hosts have called for Ensign's resignation in the wake of the expanding ...

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Published: 06/17/09

The Two (Magic!) Words That Could Have Avoided the John Ensign Sex Scandal

By  Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily
The Two (Magic!) Words That Could Have Avoided the John Ensign Sex Scandal

From old-time reporters with soup stains on their ties to youthful citizen journalists who find Twitter too wordy, the press pack loves nothing so much as a politician caught in flagrante, committing the sin of hypocrisy. So it was with Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign, who told a Las Vegas press conference, "Last year I had an affair. I violated the vows of my marriage." What that admission prompted, of course, were fast Google and NEXIS searches looking for anything embarrassing in retrospect that Ensign might have said about the likes of Bill Clinton and Larry Craig. And sure enough, ...

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