Is The Office Of Congressional Ethics On The GOP Chopping Block?

[redirish28]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/office-congressional-ethics-republican-chopping-block_n_783811.html


WASHINGTON -- With "transparency" and "accountability" the new buzz words amongst the incoming Republican lawmakers in Congress, one fixture that may ironically be on the chopping block is the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog set up to handle ethics complaints.

"Even as they outline institutional reforms, GOP leaders are gearing up to kill the fledgling Office of Congressional Ethics, which helps police ethics complaints," reported the National Journal on Monday. "They are handpicking top aides, many of them old K Street hands, to staff key committees and Capitol Hill offices. Some tea party activists grouse that lobbyists and insiders are trying to 'co-opt' the GOP freshmen."

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[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Only after it nails Rangel and some others...

[EFerrari]

2. Porter Goss is the co-chair. That's how "independent" it is. n/t