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House Leaders Question FBI Search

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:59:46 PM
By MARY DALRYMPLE

 Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., right, and his Communications Director Melanie Roussell, leave a Capitol Hill news conference, Monday, May 22, 2006. The FBI revealed Sunday that Jefferson, under investigation for bribery, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded.. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI's weekend search of the House office of a Louisiana Democrat under investigation for bribery may have overstepped constitutional boundaries, House leaders said as the congressman under investigation pledged to stay in office.

House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio told reporters Tuesday that the Congress will somehow speak to "this issue of the Justice Department's invasion of the legislative branch. In what form, I don't know."

"I've got to believe at the end of the day it's going to end up across the street at the Supreme Court," Boehner said.


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