It’s like the police investigating the police? What are the republicans trying to cover up? Did the “swamp” just get more evil? No wonder that the ordinary citizen thinks so low of the congress.
Contact your elected officials at usa.gov.
New York Times, “House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail. The move to effectively kill the Office of Congressional Ethics was not made public until late Monday, when Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change. There was no advance notice or debate on the measure.”[1]
Shame on Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) proposal. Virginia, how did you let this happen?
Politico, “In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted to gut their own independent ethics watchdog — a huge blow to cheerleaders of congressional oversight and one that dismantles major reforms adopted after the Jack Abramoff scandal.”[2]
References:
- New York Times, January 2, 2017, Eric Lipton – With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office
- Politico, January 2, 2017, Rachael Bade and John Breshahan – House Republicans gut their own oversight – ‘Evidently, ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress,’ Nancy Pelosi says.
