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LOFGREN ETHICS PANEL
House Ethics Committee chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) confers with staff at a meeting of the committee in Washington, July 29, 2010. Lofgren is immersed in an ethics confrontation that could soon be conducting two public trials of lawmakers accused of improper conduct, Reps. Charles Rangel, (D-N.Y.) and and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)