Hart won’t be excluded from hearings
House Ethics Committee Chairman Tom Loertscher said Rep. Phil Hart asked Speaker Lawerence Denney if he should attend today's meeting, and Denney checked with Loertscher. "I said we won't have questions for him today," Loertscher said. "We will not exclude him from any of the hearings," Loertscher said. Here is the letter the ethics committee sent to Hart, seeking his formal response to the charges.