Former Ethics Target Looking for a Little Payback?
Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) is poised to offer an amendment to the legislative branch appropriations bill that would cut the funding of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics by 40 percent.
The amendment, which could be offered as early as Friday, would gut $619,200 from the OCE’s $1.5 million budget.
In a letter to colleagues Thursday, Watt called the OCE “redundant and duplicative of the House Ethics Committee” and said its procedures are “unfair and abusive of the rights of Members of the House.”
“I believe that members of Congress deserve to be treated fairly as do the constituents we represent,” Watt wrote. “I, therefore, encourage you to support this amendment to return some measure of fairness to our institution.”
2 comments:
If you live right you have nothing to worry about. The only ones who don't like it are the corrupt ones. Which account for abut 99% of them.
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That used to be true. Obama has brought with him Chicago style politis. If they have a beef with you, they charge you with all kinds of frivolous charges that bankrupt you to defend.
Just look at what the Dumbocrats did to then Governor of Alaska.
Kept charging and charging and chrging her with ethics violations until she resigned to save the state from bankrupcy defending them.
All frivolous!
Dumbocrats are liars, cheats, and back stabbers. Dumbocrats don't care about rules and ethics if they get in the way of their agenda.
And who's going to oversee the Dumbocrats since they own every agency of the government with their graft and corruption?
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