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The state of the African-American community is the same across the country - low graduation rates coupled with high incarceration and unemployment rates.

Congressmen are getting cranky about the work of a new independent House ethics board, and that's a good sign.

Are seven investigations too many to be a coincidence? All seven of the full-scale ethics investigations currently underway in the U.S. House of Representatives are focused on African-American lawmakers - and it would be eight if the committee conducting the investigations hadn't deferred to the Justice Department's investigation involving Rep.

Congressional ethics investigators have concluded that North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler did not act inappropriately while a residential development that he was involved in sought lake-access rights from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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Below is a link to the full statement by the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct on Congresswoman Laura Richardson.

Jane Harman is among more than two dozen lawmakers named in the report. It was an embarrassing breach from one of the most secretive committees on Capitol Hill: A House ethics staffer posted a confidential report where the public could access it, reports CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson .

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Rep. Norm Dicks said Friday that he is confident that he will be exonerated by ethics investigators after a leaked preliminary report listed him as one of seven members of the defense appropriations subcommittee who are under scrutiny for their relationships with a once-powerful lobbying firm.

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Internal investigations into the conduct of more than two dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives were exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

The House ethics committee announced Thursday it is investigating two California Democratic lawmakers, but its embarrassed leaders then had to explain that other members - named in a confidential memo that leaked out - may have committed no wrongdoing.

All were being looked at in connection with their work obtaining earmarks for clients of an influential lobbying firm known as the PMA Group.

Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.

The House ethics committee voted Thursday to investigate Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson .

Complaints against Southern California congresswomen Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson are being investigated, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The following House members have come under scrutiny from the House ethics committee for a wide range of issues.

If their highly publicized meeting over the summer was the Beer Summit, then perhaps this was simply the Beer Meal.

A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.