Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the outgoing chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has called on the House Ethics Committee to “preserve and share” its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

The investigation into Gaetz was spiked by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., when Gaetz resigned from his House seat “effective immediately” after President-elect Donald Trump announced Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general.

“The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report,” Durbin, who will be giving up the gavel on the Judiciary Committee next month under Republican control of the Senate, wrote in a statement Thursday. “We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people.

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