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Problems with House Ethics Procedure

The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct oversees and enforces the House’s ethics rules, but in recent years, its reluctance to act  has raised concern about its effectiveness in protecting the integrity of the House’s operations.

House Ethics Committee: A Decade of Inaction on Ethics Complaints
(prior to the recent DeLay admonishments) [PDF]

Other Resources:

• Press Release: House Republican Leaders Neuter Ethics Committee, Making an Independent Ethics Agency Necessary -- Feb. 16, 2005

• Press Release: Appointments of Rep. Doc Hastings and Other DeLay Allies to House Ethics Committee Deals Final Blow to Ethics in Congress -- Feb. 5, 2005

• Public Citizen Statement on House Ethics Committee Inaction -- March 2, 2004 [PDF]

• Open Letter from Public Interest Groups on Overhauling Ethics Oversight Process [PDF]

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