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Hello and welcome to the Daily Bean's special edition, the audio version of the Matt

Gates House Ethics Committee Report, released December 23, 2024, Mr. Guest from the Committee on Ethics submitted the

following report with dissenting views and writes in accordance with House Rule 11.

Clause is 3A, 2 and 3B, the Committee on Ethics, hereby submits the following report to the House of Representatives,

including the views of Chairman Guest on behalf of the dissenting committee members, plural.

So I just want to, you know, before we get into this,

remind everyone that Speaker Mike Johnson did not want this report released.

Matt Gates, right now as we speak, is over on Twitter,

tweeting his way through it, drawing more attention to it than it probably would have otherwise

gotten. But I wanted to read this report. I'm going to read through it. I posted on blue sky,

whether people want to color commentary or not. I may break in

with some comments, but in general, I'm just going to read through the report. We'll see how far I can

get in one episode. We'll take breaks every 12 to 15 minutes. And also, don't forget, the House

of Representatives, most Republicans voted to send this report back to the committee.

Now, I don't know how many of them already knew that the committee had voted to release the report before they had that vote, but there were a lot of Republicans who wanted to cover this up.

So let's begin with part one, the introduction. On April 9th, 2021, the committee announced

it was investigating a series of widely reported allegations relating to Representative Matt Gates.

At the request of the Department of Justice, the committee deferred its review during the 117th Congress.

After it was organized for the 118th Congress, the committee

reauthorized its investigation into the allegations involving Representative Gates. Specifically,

the committee undertook a review of allegations that Representative Gates may have engaged in sexual

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