[Gene Eric]

Evidently dysfunctional.

[dsc]

Somebody is owed a warning?

STFU. No leftist should ever have a voice in anything.

[donna]

voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power

They curtailed the workload but let them keep the money?

That's a payoff!!!

[Sequoyah101]

“The House Republicans’ move would take away both power and independence from an investigative body, and give lawmakers more control over internal inquiries.”

Can we hope that they may be a little more ruthless than the board has been?

Is this next one for real or did you add it as satire?

“It also came on the eve of a historic shift in power in Washington, where Republicans control both houses of Congress and where a wealthy businessman with myriad potential conflicts of interest is preparing to move into the White House.”

[JohnBrowdie]

it should have been disbanded. it was a pelosi creation that boner continued — and it was totally out of control.

[Vic S]

Since this comes from the NYT, maybe the office isn’t really independent, and the Republicans are doing a preemptive strike?

[DouglasKC]

What do you want to bet that it was only used as a weapon against conservatives?

[HokieMom]

Goodlatte’s tweet: Rules amdt approved by House GOP strengthens Office of Cong Ethics & improves upon due process rights. Does nothing to impede OCE’s work.

[Batman11]

PFL

[mrsmith]

The House is not in session.
This vote occured only in the Republican Conference, it is part of a Rules package that will be voted on by the whole House.

That said, anything that Pelosi pushed through in 2008 should probably be removed.

[citizen]

Stopped reading when I saw NYTimes.

[Paladin2]

Twitter has replaced the NYT, LOL....

[stylin19a]

Everybody has a bad memory for things that happen prior to today.
Here's how this went back in 2008

Republicans, backed by 18 Democrats, thought they had won a parliamentary vote prior to consideration of the new ethics office, a victory that would have derailed the proposal.

But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democratic leadership held the vote open for 16 minutes beyond the alloted 15-minute deadline and, in that period, convinced several Democrats to switch their votes.

The final vote on the parliamentary procedure was 207-206. The Democrats who changed their votes were Reps. Sanford Bishop (Ga.), G.K Butterfield (N.C.), Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.) and Bart Stupak (Mich.), according to Democratic and GOP members and aides.

The final vote, which changed House rules in order to implement the OCE, was 229-182. Almost 30 Republicans, fearing that they would be caught on the wrong side of the issue come Election Day, threw their support behind the Democratic plan at the last moment, giving Democratic leaders a solid margin of victory on final passage.

[GOPJ]

If the New York Times doesn’t like it our guys made the right choice.

[rockinqsranch]

The “Office of Congressional Ethics” I am certain was to be used by the Democrats as their tool, or perhaps one of many tools with which to hammer the incoming Trump Administration.

Bravo Republicans for recognizing, and dismantling what can only be called a Democrat ruse.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The problem with the Office of Congressional Ethics was that the Democrats had no “ethics” so they had nothing to investigate.

now if it had been called the Office of a Lack of Congressional Ethics, and really did their job, the Republicans would double their funding just because of the last 4 years of the Democrats in Congress would provide enough work for the next 4 years (Conflicts of interest, leaking classified information, blatantly lying to the public, interfering with a presidential campaign (Harry Reid lying about Romney’s taxes, for one); a total disrespect and violation of national security laws and protocols re the use of private computer servers etc; interfering in foreign elections (Kerry, some members of Congress, White House, etc); aiding and abetting our enemies (The Iran Agreement and payoffs); real estate deals using insider information; etc.

You need an Office of Congressional Ethics with real teeth, not a political agenda. We don’t want crooks, crazies and commies in our Congress (i.e. the Alan Graysons of this world; the racist Congressional Black Caucus; the Marxist Progressive Congressional Caucus; and the Soros-funded gang/fronts).

If you are going to clean house, don’t just use Lysol, use Lysol-coated ExLax. It does a better job of getting the crap out than just jabbering about something.

[Crucial]

They appear to be lying again.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I just don’t trust any ‘journalism’ from the NYT to be anything other than propaganda.

[factoryrat]

Yes, because letting the opposition dictate the rules is always such a good idea.

Been there, done that, now it’s our turn at bat.

[Nifster]

Pepsi is upset.....maybe it is a good thing