House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.),
have ratcheted up the pressure on their rank-and-file members to
oppose a resolution calling for an ethics committee investigation into
the ties between key Democrats and a controversial defense-lobbying
firm.

Democratic leaders have told their members they should let the ethics
panel do its work and stop supporting a measure sponsored by Rep. Jeff
Flake (R-Ariz.) that calls for an ethics probe into political
donations from the now-defunct PMA Group lobbying firm and earmarks
its clients received. . . . The pressure appears to be working. Reps.
Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Tim Walz (D-Minn.), two of more than two dozen
Democrats who supported Flake’s measure in the latest vote, on April
1, are now wavering. . . . The week before the recess, Kind told The
Hill that a cloud will be hanging over all House Democrats until their
leaders address the PMA controversy. The quote was repeated in a New
York Times editorial calling for an ethics committee investigation
into the PMA controversy.

Pelosi is in a particularly difficult position. Rep. John Murtha (D-
Pa.), a Pelosi ally, has close ties to PMA and its clients, as do
Reps. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.).
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