One day after media reports that House Republicans had voted privately to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, GOP lawmakers abruptly reversed themselves on Tuesday (January 3rd) after a public outcry from constituents who jammed congressional phone lines, and a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump questioning making the ethics office move the first act of […]
According to MSNBC, House Republicans voted yesterday (January 2nd) to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers after several bribery and corruption scandals sent members of Congress to prison. Democrats blasted the move, which is part of a rules package approved Monday that […]
