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Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane report that the junior senator from Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, will admit that he had an

Jul 31, 202017.7K Shares412K Views
Chris Cillizza and Paul Kanereport that the junior senator from Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, will admit that he had an extramarital affair.
Two senior GOP political strategists, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, said the announcement was imminent. They declined to say with whom Ensign had the affair.
Eleven years ago, Ensign voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on two counts related to the cover-up of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Five years ago, Ensigntook to the floor of the Senateand said this:
Marriage recognizes the ideal of a father and mother living together to raise their children. Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded. For those who say that the Constitution is so sacred that we cannot or should not adopt the Federal Marriage Amendment, I would simply point out that marriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation. Marriage, as a social institution, predates every other institution on which ordered society in America has relied.
We’ll know later if he said this before or after his affair, although Cillizza and Kane note that Ensign took a short, mysterious absence from work in 2002.
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