Public outrage blocked a secret, midnight effort to nuke the congressional ethics watchdog.
WASHINGTON ― At around 3 in the afternoon on Monday, with much of the country yet to ease back to work, a Bloomberg reporter posted a curious bit of news on Twitter: House
Republicans were considering moving the Office of Congressional Ethics
under the oversight of the House Committee on Ethics.
That evening, Republicans gathered
for a closed-door discussion and vote on the proposal, which had been
put forward by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) as an amendment to the rules
that would govern the lower chamber for the next two years. A handful of
members argued in opposition, including the Republicans’ No. 2 man,
Kevin McCarthy of California, but the amendment won the secret vote
handily, 119-74, and became part of the full rules package.
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