En_Sabah_Nur 9,366 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 House Republicans, Under Fire, Back Down on Gutting Ethics Office "WASHINGTON — House Republicans, facing a storm of bipartisan criticism, including from President-elect Donald J. Trump, moved early Tuesday afternoon to reverse their plan to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. It was an embarrassing turnabout on the first day of business for the new Congress, a day when party leaders were hoping for a show of force to reverse policies of the Obama administration. The reversal came less than 24 hours after House Republicans, meeting in a secret session, voted, over the objections of Speaker Paul D. Ryan, to eliminate the independent ethics office. It was created in 2008 in the aftermath of a series of scandals involving House lawmakers, including three who were sent to jail. Republicans, led by Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, had sought to prevent the quasi-independent ethics office from taking up investigations that might involve criminal charges, and they wanted to grant lawmakers on the more powerful House Ethics Committee the right to shut down any of the inquiries. They also wanted to block the small staff at the Office of Congressional Ethics from speaking to the news media. “It has damaged or destroyed a lot of political careers in this place, and it’s cost members of Congress millions of dollars to defend themselves against anonymous allegations,” Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, said on Tuesday, still defending the move. But the resolve to curb the powers of the Office of Congressional Ethics crumbled Tuesday morning, as hundreds of phone calls flooded lawmakers’ offices and both conservative and liberal ethics groups issued statements condemning the move. So did some Republican lawmakers, who said it was the wrong message to send to the public. “It was a stumble,” Representative Mark Sanford, Republican of South Carolina, who himself was the subject of an ethics investigation while he served as governor in South Carolina. “Probably not the way you want to start out.” Mr. Trump had weighed in himself, suggesting that the House should instead be focused on domestic policy priorities. In a pair of postings on Twitter, Mr. Trump called the Office of Congressional Ethics “unfair,” but he said turning attention to it now was a case of misplaced priorities. He appended the hashtag “DTS,” an apparent allusion to his promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington. Mr. Ryan and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, had made clear as of Monday that they were also opposed to the ethics office’s powers. On Tuesday, Mr. McCarthy said he broadly agreed with Mr. Trump’s message position, which seemed to focus more on the timing of taking up the ethics issue rather than the substance of the complaints about it." CONTINUED @ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/us/politics/trump-house-ethics-office.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/ Egypt. W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,654 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Who is surprised? WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FATCAT 60,888 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 5 hours ago, Morphine Prince said: Who is surprised? WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. So did Gingrich This kitten over here (meow) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
En_Sabah_Nur 9,366 Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 8 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said: Who is surprised? WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. You know you can't tell these children nothin! SMH Egypt. W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaloo911 12,959 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Republicans and ethics in the same sentence though This comes as no surprise tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsTommyBitch 12,640 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 They backed down People are gonna say its because Trump disavowed it, but thats bullshit 私自身もこの世の中も誰もかれもが, どんなに華やかな人生でも, どんなに悲惨な人生でも, いつかは変貌し, 破壊され、消滅してしまう. すべてがもともとこの世に存在しない一瞬の幻想なのだから Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatislaps 34,854 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 time to drain the republican swamp... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born To Slay 10,996 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 I guess that's what happens when ur an unethical political party waging a war on the poor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuuri 21,636 Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 I'm sure if we got her this would not ever happen, but you know "Make America White Again", "Make America's Top 1% Richer", "Make America Backtrack 100 Years Again". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
En_Sabah_Nur 9,366 Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 38 minutes ago, Misaki said: I'm sure if we got her this would not ever happen, but you know "Make America White Again", "Make America's Top 1% Richer", "Make America Backtrack 100 Years Again". All sounds about right. Egypt. W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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