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Spartz avoids Ethics Committee discipline on firearms charge
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Spartz avoids Ethics Committee discipline on firearms charge

The charge, carrying a weapon in an airport terminal, a Class 1 misdemeanor in Virginia, was later dropped after she completed a firearms safety course.

“The committee voted against creating an investigative subcommittee on this matter,” an Ethics Committee report on the case said. “The committee has considered the scope and nature of the conduct described above and has determined that review by an investigative subcommittee is not necessary.”

“The Committee has decided to take no further action on this matter and, upon publication of this Report, considers the matter closed,” it concludes.

The MP had forgotten that the gun was in the bag and had no magazines or bullets with it. She later excused her actions saying, “Actually, given our line of business and how dangerous it is, we should probably be allowed to carry them anywhere.”

Spartz was previously under fire for o report who claimed he verbally abused his congressional staff and told a staffer he would rather “die than not complete a task” and asked if they could give him the same level of commitment.

The House Ethics Committee made “preliminary inquiries” into the behavior in June, but little has been heard since then. Spartz spoke about the report in an August town hall with Indiana voters, saying he runs his office like he runs a business.

“I probably feel more responsibility for your money than mine,” she said. “So I want to make sure that if I spend your money, the results are delivered. And if people aren’t willing to deliver, they have plenty of other opportunities to do so. And that’s the accountability I demand of the people who work for my office”

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Spartz recently won re-election to a third term in the House, defeating her Democratic opponent, Deborah Pickett, 56.6% to 38%.

She is the only member of the House who was born in Ukraine and has expressed support for the United States’ involvement in her country’s war against Russia. But Spartz Vote against a Ukraine aid bill in April, citing border security as a higher priority.