Investigations into troubled lobbying firm PMA are now officially underway in the House, but its unclear whether Washington State’s biggest PMA beneficiary, Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA,6), will have to testify. The House Ethics Committee announced the beginning of an investigation Thursday into the relationship between the now-defunct PMA and the members of Congress who received donations from the firm.
Rep. Dicks was the focus of some rare attention—including a front-page story in the Seattle Times—when the Feds announced an investigation into PMA, which funneled about $90,000 in campaign donations to Dicks. The firm is being investigated because it’s still unclear whether those who had declared themselves donors were actually the ones writing the checks.
The Ethics Committee statement didn’t name any specific lawmakers targeted by the inquiry. The word from Dicks’ spokesman George Behan: “Norm has not been contacted by ethics and does not expect to be.”
