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House Committee on Ethics

Monday, February 23, 2026·1h 16m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Ethics Committee worked through the complaint against Rep. Ron Weinberg allegation by allegation, leaning toward dismissing the campaign-finance and firearms claims for jurisdictional and evidentiary reasons while Rep. Steven Woodrow argued the workplace-harassment allegation, viewed alongside the Brown Palace incident, cleared the bar for probable cause and a hearing.

Key Actions

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Notable Quotes

I have unliked the pictures of Rep. Weinberg and his family. I just wanted to state that on the record.

Steven WoodrowWoodrow's disclosure captured the committee's effort to head off any appearance-of-bias questions before taking up an ethics complaint against a colleague.

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TranscriptPreview
The House Committee on Ethics will come to order. Berger, please call the roll. Representative Sia Sander. Present. Mayri. Excused. Woodrow. Here. Soper. Here. Madam Chair. Here. And thank you all for being here promptly. I wanted to give Representative Woodrow a moment. Thank you, Madam Chair. I really appreciate this opportunity. Over the weekend, it was brought to my attention that some questions have arisen with respect, to my liking, of a Facebook post from Representative Weinberg. And I just want to put on record that I did not even read his post. It was a picture of him and his family. But be that as it may, I do want to make clear that I have and will continue to be wholly impartial with respect to these proceedings. Case in point, I have not prejudged any of this. I don't know how I'm going to vote on any of the seven, call them accusations. I'm still reviewing the evidence, and I would like to just reiterate that I think everyone on this committee has conducted themselves with the highest level of impartiality, myself included, and I will continue to do so. So I appreciate this being brought to
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