That question will be among those raised at an ethics trial expected to unfold this fall, House officials predicted Saturday, after Ms. Waters became the second House member to indicate last week that she would challenge an allegation of violating House ethics rules.
High standards of etiquette and ethics are expected.
In addition [to violating this understanding], the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing and not in accordance with our publication ethics we expect to be followed by the editors.
Official corruption is much in the news lately — including an upcoming House ethics trial against Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York and expected ethics charges against Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California.
A public hearing on the charges before the ethics committee is expected to begin in September.
The Council's standards and ethics committee is expected to recommend disciplinary action against Mr. Jennings, whose term expires in 2005.
By summer's end, the Justice Department's ethics office is expected to release a report on the former department officials who wrote legal opinions justifying brutal interrogations.
That may change: the ethics commission is expected to issue new regulations this year that would require more disclosure for such groups.
A summary of the evidence gathered in the preliminary report by the Office of Congressional Ethics is to be released early this week, when House ethics officials are expected to confirm publicly that they, too, have found sufficient evidence to charge Ms. Waters.
An ethics panel is expected to announce Thursday if Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Reynald Temarii of Tahiti will participate, and whether Qatar's bid and the joint bid by Spain and Portugal for 2018 should be thrown out because they colluded to engineer votes.
