The following article by Katherine Tully-McManus was posted on the Roll Call website September 4, 2018:
Case was referred to panel by independent Office of Congressional Ethics
The House Ethics Committee has taken up an inquiry into Iowa Republican Rod Blum. The case was referred from the Office of Congressional Ethics on July 19, and the Ethics Committee will announce a course of action before Dec. 17, according to a release.
Blum called the inquiry a “crusade of personal destruction” being waged against him by the “radical left.”
“In my case they scream ‘ETHICS VIOLATION!’ over a clerical error on a form. Once this minor error was brought to my attention, I immediately self-reported to the Ethics Committee and apologized,” Blum said in a statement. He said that between 30 percent and 50 percent of all reports reviewed by the Ethics Committee contain errors, data that Roll Call was not able to confirm.