Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and Five to Watch) (Available online here.) John Murtha is a seventeenth-term member of Congress, representing the 12th district of Pennsylvania. His ethics issues stem from abuse of his position as Ranking Member of Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to benefit clients of his brother, Robert "Kit" Murtha, a registered lobbyist....