By TIM GRIEVE,Politico
"Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,"Massa,who on Friday announced his intention to resign,said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. "And this administration and this House leadership have said,quote-unquote,they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me,and it will pass. You connect the dots."
A spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) rejected Massa’s charge out of hand.
"That’s completely false,” said Katie Grant. “There is zero merit to that accusation."
Massa insisted that he did not know the basis of a House ethics committee investigation into his conduct until after he announced his retirement last Wednesday,and he took Hoyer to task for going public with information related to the probe before it is completed.