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Another Florida Republican, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, said in a statement and tweeted that someone should take over EPA amid all the scandal and distraction around Pruitt.

\"I agree with my colleague, Carlos, that the EPA administrator should resign. When scandals and distractions overtake a public servant's ability to function effectively, another person should fill that role,” she said in a statement to ABC News.

Ros-Lehtinen is retiring from Congress this year.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, asked the EPA's inspector general to look into whether Pruitt paid fair market value, the terms of the lease and whether the agreement was reviewed by agency ethics officials before it was reported.

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In the letter Whitehouse cites guidance from the Office of Government Ethics that says government employees should consider declining a gift that may not technically violate gift rules if \"their integrity or impartiality would be questioned if they were to accept the gift.\"

Reps. Ted Lieu, D-California, and Don Beyer, D- Virginia, also asked the inspector general to investigate in a letter on Tuesday.

In that letter, the Democrats ask the inspector general's office to look into discrepancies between the agency's ethics statement and other reports.

The ethics memo stated that the lease authorized the use of the condo by Pruitt and his immediate family, including his daughter McKenna Pruitt who stayed in a second bedroom during a White House internship.

But Vicki Hart previously told ABC News that she was not aware of other people using the bedrooms or living quarters and did not give permission for that.

\"The OGC decision and Hart’s statements cannot simultaneously be true. This discrepancy is further evidence of the need for the EPA Inspector General to conduct an investigation to determine if misconduct or mismanagement led to said OGC decision, and whether the Ethics Office was influenced in any improper manner,\" Lieu and Beyer wrote in the letter.

On Monday Democrats from the House Energy and Commerce Committee also asked the EPA to provide more information about the rental agreement. Republicans on that committee also said they have asked the EPA for more information.

The inspector general's office confirmed that they have received the letters and that he and his leadership team are reviewing the requests.

Republicans on committees that oversee the EPA, including chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee John Barrasso, have not responded to ABC News' requests for comment.

ABC News' Trish Turner contributed to this report.

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