McWorse: The Only WH Candidate in History Officially Rebuked by Congress

By: Josh
Published On: 10/6/2008 10:16:42 PM

John McCain is the only major party presidential nominee in US history to have been rebuked, censured or otherwise admonished after a Congressional ethics investigation. By the way, this includes the Whigs, Federalists and other defunct major parties...


SOURCES: List of ethics cases from: "Catalog of Congressional Ethics Cases:
1796-1992," by Mary Ann Noyer, Brookings Institute, 1992. The study "lists
the names of all members of Congress who have faced ethics charges involving
official action…by the full chamber, an ethics committee or a court of law."
Cases cross-referenced with list of presidential general election
candidates, 1789-present, available at
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html.

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