91.   Conflicting allegations about all of these matters make it essential that the inspector general and the ethics committee delay no longer.

92.   Days after the lawyer for House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for their dismissal, a series of accusations against Gingrich have been thrown out by the House ethics committee.

93.   De Nisco suggested that the case could be presented to the House ethics committee for consideration.

94.   Democrats hold that Gingrich defrauded the taxpayers for his political advancement and then lied to the ethics committee when he was questioned about it.

95.   Democrats contend that the transcript of the call shows that Gingrich, contrary to what his lawyer had promised the ethics committee, was orchestrating his defense.

96.   Democrats played on that theme two years ago when they accused Ms. Johnson, then the chairwoman of the House ethics committee, of stalling an investigation into Gingrich.

97.   Democrats said this showed he broke an agreement with the ethics committee not to orchestrate a counterattack.

98.   Does the public need to know every time the House ethics committee agrees to hear new accusations against the speaker?

99.   Democrats said Gore wrote the book while serving in the Senate and received permission from the Senate ethics committee before entering into the contract.

100.   Despite a warning from the ethics committee that the panel had not yet ruled on the validity of the project, the speaker signed his book contract in May.