(McCain) Lobbying report is likely to skirt ties to Abramoff

WASHINGTON - The curtain lifts this morning on the results of Arizona Sen. John McCain's pledge two years ago to get to the bottom of an $82 million Indian lobbying scandal.

But the report being released today by McCain and his Senate Indian Affairs Committee may read more like a summer mystery novel with chapters missing than a tell-all account of former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff's corrupt influence in Washington.

McCain's committee is expected to steer clear of any money trails that lead from the now-convicted Abramoff to some of McCain's colleagues in Congress, including Arizonans. advertisement

McCain, considering a run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, has insisted that the ethical behaviors of fellow members of Congress is not the jurisdiction of the Indian Affairs Committee he oversees but more the business of the Senate and House ethics committees.

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