The Washington Post: House Ethics Panel Makes Rare Request for Information on Sexual Misconduct

Washington, April 20, 2026

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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (New Mexico), who chairs the Democratic Women’s Caucus, has called for speeding up how the Ethics Committee investigates sexual misconduct cases. She said Gonzales’s acknowledgement of an affair with a staffer who later set herself on fire and died should have been enough to remove him from office under House rules.