KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Ethics complaint against Landrieu dismissed
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate ethics committee has dismissed a complaint that Sen. Mary Landrieu steered $2 million to a Texas company in exchange for campaign donations. Landrieu's 2001 earmark for Voyager Expanded Learning drew attention because it was approved within days of company associates donating $30,000 to her campaign. The earmark was for a reading program in the Washington, D.C., schools. At the time, the Louisiana Democrat chaired the committee overseeing D.C. spending. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the group that filed the complaint two years ago, mocked the ethics committee for taking so long to review it and for doing nothing. Landrieu's spokesman said the decision confirms the complaint had no merit. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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