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Hart won’t be excluded from hearings

Reps. Tom Loertscher, Bert Stevenson and Bill Killen sit on the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday. (Betsy Russell)
Reps. Tom Loertscher, Bert Stevenson and Bill Killen sit on the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday. (Betsy Russell)

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.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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