With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office
WASHINGTON — House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.
The move to effectively kill the Office of Congressional Ethics was not made public until late Monday, when Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change. There was no advance notice or debate on the measure.
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Link to the full text of House GOP amendment to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics: https://s3.amazonaws.com/demandprogress/documents/Goodlatte-OCE-Amendment-to-House-Rules.pdf
Phone numbers for (preliminary list of) House GOP members who voted to gut Office of Congressional Ethics:
