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The city of Chicago is conducting a long, bloody experiment in what happens to a gang-ridden municipality in the absence of effective policing. It is keeping the morgue depressingly busy : 762 people were murdered in the city in 2016, a nearly unheard-of 50 percent increase over the year before.
Pent-up frustration with the Office of Congressional Ethics led to a revolt against GOP leaders, followed by a hasty retreat in the face of public pressure. House Republicans voted Monday night to gut Congress's independent ethics watchdog, but by Tuesday afternoon it was House Republicans who were left gutted, caving to an extraordinary amount of public pressure and reversing their decision.
Despite the hue and cry over President-elect Donald J. Trump and his use of social media to make pronouncements that might be, or might not be, new public policy, DJT's use of 140 characters or less is getting the kind of attention that customary and longwinded political orations rarely attract. “With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority ...” - @realDonaldTrump.
Vice President Joe Biden has sworn in Tammy Duckworth as Illinois' new U.S. senator at a ceremony in Washington. Duckworth's press secretary, Sean Savett, says U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois escorted Duckworth to the Tuesday afternoon ceremony.
President-elect Trump Tuesday criticized House Republicans for moving to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics in a closed-door vote Monday night, saying their attention should be focused elsewhere and hinting they had violated the spirit of his campaign slogan, "drain the swamp." "With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority," the incoming Republican president wrote in a pair of tweets.
At 12:01 today, a few dozen men and women will become former congressmen and former senators. If you know how Washington works, you know that "former lawmaker" can safely be translated as "lobbyist."
House Republicans voted to rein in the power of the independent ethics office that was initiated in 2008 after Congress members went to jail for corruption. The decision to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics was made on late Monday, without any notice or debate on the subject.
The full scope of Hillary Clinton's loss and Donald Trump's victory will become apparent this week as the newly elected Congress convenes. We all know the Republicans swept the elections, winning the White House and retaining control of both houses of Congress.
On Monday, news broke that House Republicans voted privately to gut an independent ethics office that was established to hold members accountable for things like bribery, fraud, and conflicts of interest. They approved a measure that would put the Office of Congressional Ethics - a six-person board of private citizens - under the control of the House Ethics Committee, which is made up of sitting members of the House of Representatives.
House Republicans have voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers after several bribery and corruption scandals sent members to prison. The ethics change, which prompted an outcry from Democrats and government watchdog groups, is part of a rules package that the full House will vote on Tuesday.
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Paul Ryan is expected to be easily re-elected Tuesday as speaker of the House, kicking off the new Congress and marking a quiet end following a year that saw both parties questioning their congressional leadership. Ryan was re-elected by the House Republican conference in November to serve a second term as speaker of the House.
Democrats plotting a return from the political wilderness are facing their first big dilemma: how fiercely to fight President-elect Donald Trump. A new conservative era will dawn in Washington Tuesday when the next Congress, dominated by Republicans, is sworn in.
As he prepares to take office, Donald Trump has set high expectations that he can deliver quickly on his many ambitious campaign promises. No one knows better how hard that will be than his Republican allies in Congress.
Washington, Jan 3 - US House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted to rein in an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the wake of a series of embarrassing congressional scandals, the media reported. 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.
In a surprise move, Republicans in the U.S. House endorsed a plan that would curtail the operations of an independent, outside ethics panel, placing it under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee, barring it from releasing information about ethics investigations of lawmakers, and re-naming it with a somewhat bland title of the "Office of Congressional Complaint Review." "The OCE has a serious and important role in the House, and this amendment does nothing to impede their work," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte , who spearheaded the late changes to the House ethics process, arguing that complaints from lawmakers about its operation needed to be addressed.
House Republicans on Monday voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers after several bribery and corruption scandals sent members to prison.
In one of his last acts as governor, Vice President-elect Mike Pence bestowed the honorary title of Sagamore of the Wabash to Attorney General Greg Zoeller for his eight years as Indiana's chief legal officer. It may have been as fitting for Zoeller to have been honored for his role as a public health advocate.