Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, told the Senate Ethics Committee that she doesn't believe Senate Resources Chairman Monty Pearce is exempt from conflict-of-interest issues regarding his oil and gas lease as a member of a broad class of similarly situated people. "There are 22,600 inhabitants in the county," Stennett told the panel. "The leases, even at its most, is 500, about 2.21 percent of the population." Only a tiny percentage of Idahoans hold oil and gas leases, she said.