WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin on Sunday asked the House of Representatives to turn over an unpublished ethics report into alleged sexual misconduct involving a 17-year-old girl by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general.

Gaetz, 42, resigned from his seat in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday, hours after Trump revealed his choice for the House Speaker and two days before the House Ethics Committee release the report, which also looked at allegations of illegal drug use. Gaetz denies any wrongdoing.

Mullin told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Senate, which has the authority to confirm or reject Trump’s nominations for high-level office, needs to see the report.

“The Senate should have access to this,” Mullin said, declining to say whether he believed the report should be made public.

Gaetz is one of a series of Cabinet nominees selected by Trump last week who lack the resumes typically seen in candidates for top administration jobs. He would need to be confirmed by the Senate — where Trump’s Republicans will have a majority of at least 52 of the 100 seats — to get the job. A handful expressed skepticism about the choice.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the ethics committee should not release its report. He was with it on Sunday.

“There have been, I understand, I think, two exceptions to the rule throughout the history of Congress and the history of the Ethics Committee,” Johnson told CNN.

“The speaker does not have the authority to stop the publication of a report by the ethics committee, but I simply made what I think is an obvious point, that we don’t want to go down that road.”

Mullin previously described Gaetz as unprincipled, citing instances in which Gaetz showed colleagues on the House floor nude photos of his conquests.

But he said Sunday that he has absolutely not made up his mind whether to vote for or against Gaetz.

“I’m going to give it a fair shot, just like any person,” Mullin said.

The Justice Department has been investigating Gaetz for nearly three years over allegations of sex trafficking involving a 17-year-old girl. Gaetz’s office said in 2023 that he had been told by prosecutors that he would not face criminal charges.

The girl’s lawyer asked Thursday that the report be made public.

(Reporting by Raphael Satter, Jasper Ward and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Scott Malone and Bill Berkrot)