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With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office; Who needs congressional ethics anyway?
Topic Started: Jan 3 2017, 10:04 AM (253 Views)
George Aligator
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WASHINGTON — 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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/with-no-warning-house-republicans-vote-to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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jake58

George Aligator
Jan 3 2017, 10:04 AM
WASHINGTON — 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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/with-no-warning-house-republicans-vote-to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
already posted...

http://unitedstates.com/topic/10098887/1/#new
That which can be asserted without evidence; can be dismissed without evidence- Christopher Hitchens
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Robert Stout
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Political whores in both Party's can now feel more secure....At least the people don't need to depend on the whorehouse to clean up the act.................. :dunno:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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Opinionated
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Given that Republicans have no ethics, why have an office to monitor them?
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thoughtless
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Trump's infrastructure plans, and replacement of Obamacare have the entire lobbying industry geared up for some serious work these next few months.

It would be detrimental to progress, and cause some serious delays, if our elected officials have to deal with ethics. :spank:
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Robert Stout
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thoughtless
Jan 3 2017, 11:15 AM
Trump's infrastructure plans, and replacement of Obamacare have the entire lobbying industry geared up for some serious work these next few months.

It would be detrimental to progress, and cause some serious delays, if our elected officials have to deal with ethics. :spank:
Replacing Obamacare promises to be the goose that laid the golden egg for politicians............... :lol:
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