Posted on 01/07/2011 4:47:13 PM PST by ColdOne
Two government watchdogs are calling for an ethics investigation into the reception a House Republican held in the Capitol while the 112th Congress was being sworn in on Wednesday.
The Campaign Legal Center and the Sunlight Foundation said Friday that the Office of Congressional Ethics should look into whether Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) violated House rules by soliciting campaign contributions for his swearing-in ceremony.
And the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), on Friday called on Republicans to “use their investigative powers to clarify the circumstances surrounding the issue.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
And thus it begins. ;-)
Hey! Old burned out 60s hippies have to do something in their "golden years". Smokin' pot just ain't fun anymore now that you can get it with a prescription from any quack "doctor".
Dammit, don’t start out giving the Demons anything like this.
Where are the Pubs brains?
Let the nattering nabobs, whining begin.
Yep...the past 4 years of blatent dem corruption never happened...on to slamming the new majority for every undotted I....
Well if he hadn’t yet been sworn in, how could he be in violation of House rules?
Let ‘em bark. We already know that a Representative’s term of office begins when the calendar and the clock says it does, and that one of the pieces of paper a Representative-elect signs during the transition is his oath of office.
Republican or Democrat - We need to get the special interest money out of politics. I’m all for allowing unlimited volunteer help, but limiting money.
We have expensive receptions, coronations, inaugurations and fund raising by new politicos all being paid for by private donors. It is naive to think they expect nothing in return. If they expected nothing in return it should be required to be anonymous contributions. I could buy into it then.
Perhaps they could nail them for impersonating a Member of Congress.
Bravo. Yours is the salient comment. This lobbying frenzy must stop.
just because a stupid crook calls himself a republican doesn’t mean he isnt stupid
They want a full blown investigation on this, but let all the ethics violations slide when the Dems were in power.
Maybe she can deem the probe
Well if he hadn’t yet been sworn in, how could he be in violation of House rules?
"There is no controlling legal authority..."
- Algore
Cool - let’s begin with pResident Obungle himself, who couldn’t even get through the presidential oath of office without hurting himself. It was such a disaster that they had to redo the who thing again, in private as not to embarass himself and the office along with the entire nation yet a second time. They should start immediately!
A good response to this would be a monolithic call by the pubs to have selected Dems and Repubs investigated for the violation of THEIR oaths of office.
Of course I’m ignorantly presuming that the oath included something like the Military’s “Protect and Defend the Constitution” statement.
Any noise raised re this would help the freshmen do more about returning congress to constitutional authority. Including the Treasonous repubs in the accusations would give it more media play.
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