Dad stared at them blankly, we all went in, Dad and Unni stood in front of the official conducting the ceremony with a witness on either side, both said yes, passed each other the rings, after which Dad was married again.
"If the building is deemed safe for continued use, that recommendation must be supported by scientific findings and defensible expert opinion," Mrs. Rell said a letter to the officials conducting the inquiry.
If the office finds troubling evidence, with the support of a board that hired Mr. Wise and oversees his work, it refers the matter to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the formal name of the ethics panel, for further action.
In 1991, however, Mr. Rangel wrote a letter to the chairman of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct stating that the apartment building had produced a loss in 1990.
The referrals to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct came as the office recommended dismissing investigations of five other lawmakers, whose fund-raising just before the December 2009 vote had also come under scrutiny.
On Thursday, the committee, officially called the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, announced that there was evidence to substantiate those accusations, but it declined to provide detail.
Such a letter is the mildest form of sanction the committee (formally, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct) can mete out, and it ends the case against Mr. Shuster.
The chairwoman of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has scheduled hearings for next month in the separate cases of Representatives Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, and Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, who have been accused of ethics violations.
The office has repeatedly clashed with the House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics committee.
