Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.

He also supported a system for universal health care. On March 10 2010 The Washington Post reported that Massa was under investigation for allegations that he had groped multiple male staffers working in his office.

A Democrat Massa resigned under the cloud of a pending House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. He also said he was pressured to step down because he had opposed the health care reform bill due to its lack of a public option. Eric James Joseph Massa (born 16 September 1959) is a former U.