"This is a very sick person"

Pelosi, interviewed on “Charlie Rose,” which airs on PBS and Bloomberg Television, said that Massa, 50, first called her to say that he wasn’t going to seek re-election because of a recurrence of cancer. Massa, who represented an Upstate New York congressional district, changed course and resigned on March 8, citing an ongoing House ethics committee investigation into allegations that he harassed his staff.

“This is a very sick person,” said Pelosi, a California Democrat. “Perhaps his judgment is impaired because of the ethical issues that have arisen, and he is no longer in the Congress.”…

She said Massa’s vote wasn’t going to make or break the outcome of the health-care vote in the House. “Sometimes, we really exaggerate our own importance in a lot of these things,” she said.