Idaho senator’s future in question

Senate Republican leaders called for an ethics committee review Tuesday into Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea in a police sting operation this summer in an airport men’s room.\nRepublican leaders also are “examining other aspects of the case to see if additional action is required,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell and other top GOP lawmakers in a written statement.\nThey released the statement shortly before Craig’s scheduled appearance before television cameras in Boise, his first public comments since confirming his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.\nCraig entered his plea several weeks after an undercover police officer in the Minneapolis area arrested him and filed a complaint that said the three-term senator had engaged in actions “often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct.”\nThe bathroom incident in the Minneapolis airport occurred on June 11. Craig signed his plea papers Aug. 1, and word of the events surfaced Monday. The senator issued a statement Monday night that said, “In hindsight, I should have pled not guilty.”