Trump rebukes Repubs over bid to gut Ethics Office.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Indeed, once the spotlight is off they will sneak it in somehow.

yep, thar 'tis.

So Goodlatte, backed by a group of lawmakers who felt they had been wrongly accused by the OCE, devised a plan to rein in the office. They worked in secret for weeks, making sure word didn’t leak out to Democrats or the media. Then, just before House Republicans met to approve their rules package for the new Congress, they unveiled their amendment to scale back the powers of the OCE and put it under the House Ethics Committee’s jurisdiction.
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McCarthy told Republicans they did not run for Congress to fight over an obscure office but to repeal Obamacare and do tax reform — and it was time to scuttle the rules change. He gave them an option: vote now to strike the Goodlatte amendment, or he would offer an amendment to do so on the floor himself, taking the fight into the public sphere.
Rep. Louie Gohmert talks with Rep. Bob Goodlatte, in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill on Jan. 3 as the 115th Congress gets underway. | AP Photo

He met some resistance. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who’s been under criminal and ethical investigation for years, was irate that leadership wanted the conference to back off. Young, as well as Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), tried to get leadership to commit to reforming the office by a specific future date, though Labrador agreed with leadership's plan to postpone. Incoming Ethics Chair Susan Brooks, one source in the room said, suggested they'd do it by August.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...acklash-233152