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TWO CONGRESSMEN WITH ONE PROBLEM: In Illinois, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Chicago, has been b?

By Glenn Reynolds

TWO CONGRESSMEN WITH ONE PROBLEM:

In Illinois, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Chicago, has been best known for getting federal funds to improve impoverished areas of his district in both Chicago and the south suburbs and for his push to develop a third Chicago-area airport near Peotone.

In Indiana, U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., has worked long and hard on behalf of the steel industry, the major economic engine in his Northwest Indiana district.

But within the past few months, both men now find themselves better known as being under the microscope of federal investigations into whether they have crossed an ethical and perhaps legal line.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).