CREW Files Complaint Over Speaker’s DOMA Defense

A group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics and Washington (CREW) has filed an ethics complaint against Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for violating the Antideficiency Act. The complaint alleges that Boehner directed the House Office of General Counsel (OSG) to sign the $500,000 contract to defend the Defense of Marriage Act without ensuring the funds were appropriated first. That blow to the OSG’s budget (35 percent) will leave it unable to cover its salaries and expenses.

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Boehner’s spokesman has responded that the complaint is “off-base” and “stupid,” adding that the Speaker expects the Obama Administration’s Justice Department to recoup the funds.