Edited sentence: 1 2004 and March 31 2005.McMorris has taken $5,000 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.McMorris voted to weaken the ethics rules in a move that many say served only to protect Tom DeLay.McMorris voted with Tom DeLay 98% of the time between Jan.When Democrats offered a solution to clean up the House by strengthening ethics rules, McMorris voted twice to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote.When Republicans realized it was "impossible to win the communications battle" over the gutted ethics rules, McMorris flip-flopped and voted to put the old rules back into place