The House voted that Eni's subsidiary should be «
formally censured or reprimanded by the House for its role» and that «the Federal Government of Nigeria should cancel OPL 245».
This will no doubt cause widespread relief among Tyner's colleagues in the county legislature, where he was
formally censured last summer for what were considered anti-Semitic remarks.
The New York Democrat, who was
formally censured by the House earlier this month, is soliciting donations to pay lawyers who represented him during the congressional ethics investigation, and the fund could be used to fend off future legal challenges.
The final decision regarding any disciplinary action in the event of a confirmed breach would remain with the First Minister, though the Assembly would have provision to
formally censure a Minister following a confirmed breach of the Code if a motion was tabled by at least six AMs.
And when the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 31, 2006, regarding Senator Russ Feingold's resolution to
formally censure the president, Senator Feingold read from my blog as he questioned one of the committee's witnesses, former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean.