With elections less than two weeks out, Washington these days is fairly quiet as all of the House and a third of the Senate has gone home to campaign.

About the only members left in town these days are the ones  testifying to the House Ethics Committee as it investigates  former Rep. Mark Foley's digital wooing of House pages.

Yesterday, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-IL, and Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-NY, went before the committee. Hastert became the first Speaker to go before the committee since Newt Gingrich did in 1997 during its investigation into Gingrich's book deal.

Reynolds, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, appeared before the committee just before Hastert. Reynolds has said he personally told Hastert that Foley had sent suspicious e-mails to a teenager in Louisiana. Hastert has said he didn't recall that conversation.