Outrageous – no other word to describe gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), the very first act of the new Republican House.
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Not the economy, jobs, transportation, repealing the ACA. Republicans start off crushing the independent House ethics office
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I wrote the law creating the OCE; the point was to bring transparency and accountability to the broken House ethics process
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The OCE operates independently of the House Ethics Committee, with the authority to choose which matters merit review.
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The practical result of the Republican measure to bring OCE under the House Ethics Committee is to render it ineffective.
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Transparency, accountability and independence of OCE demolished, the real intention of this change. https://www.facebook.com/RepMichaelCapuano/posts/1183113948409719 …
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