EMBATTLED DEM CONGRESSMAN: I WAS PUSHED OUT FOR HEALTCARE! 'THEY KNEW I WOULD VOTE NO SO THEY GOT RID OF ME AND NOW IT WILL PASS'...

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year's Eve — and that he's the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he's a "no" vote on health care reform.


"Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. "And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me, and it will pass. You connect the dots."


Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.






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