New House Rules Aimed At Gutting Ethics Committee
The new House rules package contains proposed changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics that would remove Democrats from the office’s board and make it harder to staff. Via Forbes:
Ethics experts condemned Monday and suggested could make it harder for incoming George Santos, the Great Imposter, to be held accountable for lying about much of his background.
Good government group Public Citizen released this statement:
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.”
Oh, and they're also reinstating the Holman rule: