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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., right, with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, following a House GOP caucus meeting. Scalise acknowledged that he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists. Scalise served in the Louisiana Legislature when he appeared at a 2002 convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. Now he is the third-highest ranked House Republican in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON The Houses third-ranking Republican leader said Tuesday he regrets speaking 12 years ago to a white supremacist group and condemns the views of such groups.House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana said that as a state legislator in 2002, he spoke to many groups about a major tax issue.

One of the many groups that I spoke to regarding this critical legislation was a group whose views I wholeheartedly condemn, Scalise said in a statement. It was a mistake I regret, and I emphatically oppose the divisive racial and religious views groups like these hold.

Republican leaders defended Scalise, while Democratic groups criticized him.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Scalise made an error in judgment, and he was right to acknowledge it was wrong and inappropriate. Boehner said Scalise has my full confidence as our Whip.

Scalise acknowledged at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke founded the group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee criticized Scalise in an earlier statement on Tuesday, saying he chose to cheerlead for a group of KKK members and neo-Nazis at a white supremacist rally, and questioned why the Republican leadership had remained silent.

In an interview Monday with The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and NOLA.com, Scalise said he had little staffing as a state legislator, and didnt always know details of groups he was invited to address. I didnt know who all of these groups were, and I detest any kind of hate group, Scalise told the newspaper.

His statement Tuesday did not deal with the issue of weak staffing and sketchy knowledge of his audiences in 2002. However, Scalise, who is Catholic, said these groups hold views that are vehemently opposed to my own personal faith, and I reject that kind of hateful bigotry.

Scalise won a key endorsement Monday from Rep. Cedric Richmond, who will be Louisianas only Democrat and only black in Congress when the new Congress convenes next week. Richmond told NOLA.com: I dont think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. He said he has worked closely with Scalise and I am not going to let them use Steve as a scapegoat to score political points when I know him and know his family.

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Washington [Update: This story was updated at 2:30 ET to include new statements from Rep. Steve Scalise and House Speaker John Boehner.]

No sooner had House Speaker John Boehner dispensed with one problem congressman admitted tax evader Michael Grimm (R) of New York, who is resigning his seat when another one reared his head. And this situation could be harder to resolve.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R) of Louisiana, the House majority whip and the No. 3 House Republican, has acknowledgedthat he spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002, when he was a member of the Louisiana legislature, according to The Washington Post.

But Congressman Scalise says he didnt know at the time that the organization had troubling connections. The group, called the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO, was founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. Mr. Duke, a former Louisiana state representative and gubernatorial candidate, was nationally known as a white nationalist, but Scalises associates say he wasnt aware of the groups link to Duke.

For anyone to suggest that I was involved with a group like that is insulting and ludicrous, Scalise told the New Orleans Times-Picayune on Monday night.

On Tuesday, he issued an additional statement, calling his decision to speak to the group "a mistake.

"Twelve years ago, I spoke to many different Louisiana groups as a state representative, trying to build support for legislation that focused on cutting wasteful state spending, eliminating government corruption, and stopping tax hikes, Scalise said. "One of the many groups that I spoke to regarding this critical legislation was a group whose views I wholeheartedly condemn. It was a mistake I regret, and I emphatically oppose the divisive racial and religious views groups like these hold.

Speaker Boehner also released a statement Tuesday in support of Scalise.

More than a decade ago, Representative Scalise made an error in judgment, and he was right to acknowledge it was wrong and inappropriate, Boehner said. Like many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, I know Steve to be a man of high integrity and good character. He has my full confidence as our whip, and he will continue to do great and important work for all Americans.

Louisiana-based political blogger Lamar White Jr. first brought the story to light, after finding posts on the white nationalist website Stormfront.

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