The EUR 230 million increase in the month under review owed to the following:

They were so prolific that they accounted for 18 percent of the department's sexual abuse arrests and 10 percent of its attempted grand larceny arrests during the 12 months under review.

The House ethics panel, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, found that Mr. Feighan had written 397 overdrafts on his House bank account in the 39 months under review.

But Mr. Solarz was on the early list of "worst offenders," those who ran up overdrafts that exceeded their next paycheck for at least 8 of the 39 months under review by the House ethics committee.

But, as four dissenting Republicans point out, the committee's definition of "significant" abuse - overdrafts exceeding one month's pay for 8 of the 39 months under review - protects about 40 other serious abusers, some of whom cashed hundreds of bad checks.