On the January 15 edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace allowed acting House Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-MO) to make several false and misleading claims in defense of his ethical record. During the interview, Blunt asserted that his lobbyist wife "doesn't lobby anybody in the House of Representatives." But she had, in fact, lobbied the House on behalf of tobacco giant Philip Morris at the time Blunt tried unsuccessfully to slip a tobacco-friendly provision into the Homeland Security Act. Blunt further claimed that this last-minute attempt to add the measure "was not something I was trying to do on my own" and that House "leaders" were working together on similar legislation at the time. But news reports indicate that the Republican leadership was entirely unaware of Blunt's actions and had the provision pulled from the bill as soon as it was brought to their attention.
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