Waters and Supporters Urge Ethics Panel to Share Report June 7, 2012, 6:48 pm Representative Maxine Waters and 68 other House Democrats called on the ethics committee Thursday to release its internal report on its handling of an investigation into possible improprieties by Ms. Waters. The demand comes in response to a decision by the House Ethics Committee on Wednesday to move ahead with its long-stalled case against Ms. Waters, the California Democrat, over allegations that she helped steer federal money to a Boston bank in which her husband held stock. In announcing its decision, committee leaders acknowledged that staff members involved in the Waters investigation might have leaked confidential material and acted inappropriately in some instances. But they concluded that these problems never deprived Ms. Water of her rights to due process in defending herself. Ms. Waters and her supporters, in a letter of their own sent to the ethics committee on Thursday, said it was "absolutely essential" that the committee release the internal report that formed the basis of its decision to move ahead with the case for the sake of transparency. Without public scrutiny of the internal findings, "the integrity of the committee's process will further be called into question," the letter said.