2 Named to Ethics Panel
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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle has named Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to the Senate Ethics Committee. Reid and Murray will fill the vacancies created on the six-member panel when Sens. Richard Bryan (D-Nev.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) left.
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