CBS Correspondent Wonders Why Graves Isn't Facing Ethics Charges

CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson compares Sam Graves' unethical missteps to those of other Members of Congress, and asks if there's "a double standard for house ethics." 

The ethics cases against Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) highlight an odd paradox: that many other members of Congress do similar things but are not facing charges.

On March 4, 2009, Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) introduced a witness at a hearing promoting renewable energy interests: Brooks Hurst. Congressman Graves failed to mention that Hurst was an old friend. The congressman also left out that his own wife and Hurst invested money in the same Missouri fuel plants.

Congresswoman Waters argues that is the same thing she's accused of: helping a good friend and his company, where her spouse owned stock. Yet Waters is the only one facing an ethics trial.

For more on ethics inquiries involving Graves, see here, here, here and here.