When the new Congress convenes tomorrow, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are set to vote on a rules package that guts the Office of Congressional Ethics. This must be stopped.
#2 OCE is a bipartisan ethics office that helps monitor and report on ethics issues involving members of Congress. It has a proven track record of enhancing transparency and enforcement of ethics rules and has gained widespread support among the American public.
#3 @CongressEthics has been reauthorized every Congress since its inception in 2008. We ask each and every Member commit to encouraging the smooth reauthorization of OCE once again in the next Congress.
#4 the rules package currently has two harmful provisions 1) is designed to remove the long-standing Democrats from the board, and 2) is to make it difficult for OCE to staff its office.
# 5 These are measures that will render the ethics office ineffectual and which no Member, from either party, should support. The provisions must be changed. #ethics #rulespackage
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