WASHINGTON—Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Administration, is asking Federal Election Commission (FEC) Inspector General Christopher Skinner to investigate “potential violations of federal ethics regulations” by the commission’s chairman.
Davis requested in a letter to Skinner that he investigate FEC Chairman Ellen L. Weintraub’s “use of official government time and resources for ideological, political purposes; her continued appearances in national media to discuss matters outside the purview of the FEC; and her refusal to recuse herself from any matters under review involving President [Donald] Trump, despite the apparent conflict of interest between [Weintraub’s] nonpartisan position at the FEC and the use of her official Twitter account to publicly disparage the President.”
