USATODAY.com - 2 in GOP to skip DeLay ethics probe: "WASHINGTON — Two of the five Republicans on the House ethics committee will not participate in any investigation of potentially improper travel by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the panel's chairman said Wednesday.
Lamar Smith of Texas and Tom Cole of Oklahoma contributed to DeLay's legal defense fund last year,
creating what outside ethics experts regarded as a conflict of interest."