House GOP Plans To Gut Congressional Ethics Office

Public Citizen reports:

When the new Congress convenes tomorrow, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are set to vote on a rules package that guts the Office of Congressional Ethics.

The first provision is designed to remove the long-standing Democrats from the board. The second is to make it difficult for OCE to staff its office. These are measures that will render the ethics office ineffectual and which no Member, from either party, should support.

Today’s Republican party is rife with ethical transgressions. And it is now trying to make it much harder to hold members of Congress accountable to the standards of decency we expect.

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The @January6thCmte referred several GOP members to the House Ethics body in connection with the insurrection.

So what’s one of the incoming GOP majority’s first moves? Kneecapping that Ethics office to effectively prevent it from acting. https://t.co/Xigw6l86Q8

— Ian Bassin ?? (@ianbassin) January 2, 2023