The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee has admonished U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a November 2022 Fox News interview. Members of the panel said Graham violated Senate rules and standards of conduct by conducting the interview in a Senate office building.
U.S. Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Chris Coons, D-Delaware, and U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma., wrote in a public letter released Thursday that Graham solicited campaign contributions for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign committee “five separate times” during the Nov. 30, 2022, interview on Fox News. Coons and Lankford added that Graham reported himself to the committee after the interview was over.
“The public must feel confident that members use public resources only for official actions in the best interests of the United States, not for partisan political activity,” wrote Coons and Lankford, and added that this was Graham’s second violation.
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