The two Republican congressmen used campaign funds to pay bills at exclusive private clubs in Amarillo and Houston.
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The Office of Congressional Ethics approved the reports in March, sending them to the House Ethics Committee for investigation. The OCE is made up of nonpartisan professional staffers who recommend ethics inquiries to the House Ethics Committee. The committee has five Republican and five Democratic members of Congress and can recommend sanctions to be voted on by the whole chamber. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, is the only Texan on the committee.
The OCE and Ethics Committee opened a near identical investigation in 2022 into Jackson’s use of campaign funds to pay for Amarillo Club dues. The Ethics Committee never released its findings on that probe — a cue Jackson apparently took to continue using campaign funds on the club.club membership included event space for fundraising that was less than the cost of renting meeting space on an individual basis. His lawyers said Jackson and his wife never personally benefited from club membership.
Hunt’s expenses include membership fees and other expenses at the Post Oak Hotel, which houses the exclusive Oak Room club. His campaign finance disclosures show a 2022 expense for “membership” of $2,706.25 to the club. Another disclosure a year later had an expense to the club for the exact same amount labeled as “food/beverages.”
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