JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATES CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION

The Abramoff affair threatens to swamp Congress.

"I think this has the potential to be the biggest scandal in Congress in over a century," said Thomas E. Mann, a Congressional specialist at the Brookings Institution. "I've been around Washington for 35 years, watching Congress, and I've never seen anything approaching Abramoff for cynicism and chutzpah in proposing quid pro quos to members of Congress."

Tags: Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Bob Ney