When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.

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.