The DCCC has asked that Rep. Don Young (R-AK) vacate or be removed from his position on the House Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees in light of recent revelations that he is a subject in a federal corruption investigation. Reps. John Doolittle (R-CA) and Rick Renzi (R-AZ) relinquished their committee seats once their parts in criminal probes were made public, and Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), currently under indictment for corruption, was stripped of his committee assignments.
No response from Republican leadership, on whose laps the decision would fall, but there is this from Young's office:
In response, Young spokeswoman Meredith Kenny said "Mr. Young has not been convicted of criminal wrong doing, and the allegations of his being investigated are per 'anonymous sources' ... this hardly proves him guilty of anything."
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