Congressman Pombo May be Guilty of House Ethics Violations for Release of

<p><b>Congressman Pombo May be Guilty of House Ethics Violations for Release of
report on MAXXAM's Failed S&L</b><p>

<p>contact: Darryl Cherney 707/923-4949</p>

<p><b>Headwaters, Steelworker and anti-MAXXAM compatriots and members of the media:</b></p>

<p>A serious breach of Congressional ethics has taken place with the release of Congressman Pombo's report from his Resources sub-committee task force on how the debt for nature idea supposedly inspired the banking regulators
to file court actions against Hurwitz, MAXXAM and United Savings.</p>

<p>The breach is this: The task force which Pombo chaired is defunct--it no longer exists. Further, no vote of the resources committee occured to release the report. Instead, Pombo snuck it through to the public record
by simply entering into the congressional record.</p>

<p>In other words, a rogue Congressman Pombo, without any authorization at all entered a report declaring poor Charles Hurwitz to be a victim of a
conspiracy between federal banking regulators and "eco-terrorists" to deprive him of his redwoods. News accounts even point to the highly
unusual method of entering this into the public record.</p>

<p>Last year, MAXXAM made contributions to many members of the task force, banking committee, and the Bush Inaugural that activists believe bought and paid for the Republican-led task force.</p>

<p>The following people are contacts to determine whether a House Ethics Committee Probe will be launched.</p>

<p>Ethics Committee staff chief Robert Walker (Republican) 202/225 7103. Ask him if a breach has been reported and if this seems like a breach of ethics.</p>

<p>Rick Healy, staffer for Rep. George Miller (Democrat) on Resources Committee. Ask him if Miller will refer this matter to Ethics.</p>

<p>Allan Freemayer staffer for Rep. James Hansen (republican). Hansen if a moderate. Ask Freemayer if they will report this as an ethics breach. 202 225 2761.</p>

<p>Bari Schwartz, Staffer for Congressman Howard Berman, ranking Democrat of the Ethics Committee. She's familiar with this issue. Ask her if the ethics committee is looking into this: 202/225 4695.</p>

<p>Jim Zoia, ranking staffer for Congressman Nick Rahal (Ranking democrat on Resources). Ask Mr. Zoia to report this breach to the ethics committee.
202/225 6065.</p>