A resolution promoting the establishment of a bipartisan task force to review House ethics procedure offered during a meeting yesterday of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee failed to pass.

Rep. Alan Mollohan (W.Va.), the panel’s ranking member, offered the resolution.

Members of the committee declined to say whether the resolution failed on a party-line vote, saying only that “it failed to receive a majority vote.”

Mollohan has refused to allow the committee to organize until Republicans repeal or alter changes they made to House ethics rules at the start of the new Congress.  

Alexander Bolton and Jackie Kucinich