The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats’ promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, and they’ve drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel’s power.
But there’s hot competition between the CBC and the official House ethics committee over who has less regard for the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE. And the rest of the House doesn’t appear to be far behind in its disdain. Privately, Democratic and Republican lawmakers, and even some congressional leaders, acknowledge that there’s a strong sentiment to change rules that empower the office to publicize investigations and wreak havoc on lawmakers’ political lives.
“We might have to take a fresh look, at some point, at the authority of the OCE,” said North Carolina Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield, who is a member of both the CBC and the ethics committee.
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This would not only protect the Crooked Politians instead of allowing punishment but allow them to engage in more corruption at the Tax Payers expense. The Politians names voting and / or in favor of this change should be published. They should not object to this. It will give them the publiciity they want for this change but more important for those independant thinkers and those of Common Sense would see the most corrupt Politians. That would be a good reason to work to vote those corrupt idiots out of office. Then they can thank and pat themselves on their own backs instead blaming other groups for not getting re-elected. This really shows the Intelligence of Washington Politians and the Democrat Politians everywhere by admitting they are corrupt.
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