Republicans vote to eliminate independent ethics office, Ryan and Trump are not on board with the decision
buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Now that the New Year has started America is getting a clearer picture of what to expect from the Trump Administration. Today as the 115th Congress gets underway and Vice President Biden swears in new leaders, it will be out with the old in with the new way of handling ethics violations. In their effort to "drain the swamp" in Washington, Republican lawmakers have agreed to get rid of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R) proposed the amendment which was voted on 119-74 in a closed door meeting Monday night, a change Republican leader Paul Ryan opposes. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed her oppostion to the measure in a fiery statement: “Republicans claim they want to ‘drain the swamp,’ but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their actions. Evidently, ethics are the ...