Monday, November 13, 1995
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Republicans not content with O'Leary's punishment
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary escaped with a White House scolding and is keeping her job, but House Republicans say they want a detailed accounting of why she paid $46,500 to rate journalists in their coverage of her department.
The White House said that the department had exercised poor
judgment in rating media coverage and individual journalists, but that no laws had been violated. O'Leary accepted full responsibility and said that she now considered the incident closed.
"It may be closed at the White House, but it's not going to go away," said Rep. Thomas Billey, R-Va., chairman of the House Commerce Committee.
The panel's oversight subcommittee has asked O'Leary to appear at a hearing on Friday. Billy said the incident "harkens back to the days of Watergate." Meanwhile, 77 House members, mostly Republicans, continued to ask for O'Leary's resignation.
was an unacceptable practice.
In a two-page finding, the White House said that while neither O'Leary nor her department had violated any laws, the scoring of individual news organizations or reporters
At a news conference in New Orleans on Thursday, O'Leary said that the rating of journalists was reprehensible and that the department never had asked for such classifications, only general evaluations on how her department was being covered by the media.
O'Leary has been ordered to repay the money to the U.S. Treasury from office funds.
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