'Serious questions': Senator demands release of Matt Gaetz ethics report

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that he's demanding that the House Ethics Committee release the report about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to the Senate Judiciary Committee so they can examine it. Gaetz is headed for Senate confirmation after Donald Trump picked him for the attorney general post.

On Wednesday, Gaetz resigned from Congress, which stopped the ethics investigation into allegations about drug use, sexual misconduct, accepting improper gifts, dispensing special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and attempting to obstruct government investigations of his conduct, CNN reported Wednesday. Gaetz denies all of the allegations.

The CNN report also said that the House committee was set to vote this week to vote on whether to release the Gaetz report publicly.

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Durbin released a statement Thursday morning "calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and share their report and all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz with the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

Durbin is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee for a little over a month.

"The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz's resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report," said Durbin.

"We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people. Make no mistake: this information could be relevant to the question of Mr. Gaetz's confirmation as the next attorney general of the United States and constitutional responsibility of advice and consent," the statement closed.