Debra Saunders documents the ethical lapses of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in her column today.

* As the Washington Post reported, last week Pelosi filed delinquent reports for three trips she herself accepted from outside sponsors. The biggie was a week-long 1999 trip to Taiwan, paid for by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce. The tab for Pelosi and her husband: about $8,000.

* A senior aide to Pelosi, Eddie Charmaine Manansala, went on a $9,887 trip in 2004 sponsored by the same Korea-U.S. Exchange Council as sponsored DeLay's excursion -- then failed to file the mandated paperwork until a reporter asked about the trip.

* [The] Federal Election Commission fined her after Team Pelosi created a second political action committee to skirt a $5,000 gift limit. "The main reason for the creation of the second PAC, frankly, was to give twice as much dollars," her treasurer, Leo McCarthy, told Roll Call.

Add to that the fact that in the last five years Democrats took 3, 458 privately funded trips while GOP representatives took only 2,666 and you see that if such trips pose the ethical problem that Pelosi and the Democrats claim they do, then it is the minority Democrat party with an ethics problem.

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