Congress Begins to Drain the Swamp -- NOT

[FruminousBandersnatch]

The day before the new, Republican controlled Congress starts, Republicans have voted, in a surprise move to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics.

The OCE was set up after numerous Congressional scandals where it was felt that the fox guarding the henhouse approach of having the House Ethics Committee investigate their own was too lax.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/with-no-warning-house-republicans-vote-to-hobble-independent-ethics-office.html

I guess this is a demonstration of the same zealousness with which they will address conflicts of interest in the Executive Branch.

[jsteele]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/609341.page