this is the office of congressional ethics that was created eight years ago after a particularly lurid period of repeated congressional scandals. it's an independent ethics office that investigates misconduct of lawmakers and staff members in the house. but there was a closed door meeting of house republicans tonight and they voted that instead of maintaining the independent office of congressional ethics, they're going to put it under a congressional committee, under the house ethics committee. it sounds like a bureaucratic change, but what that means is there's no independent ethics oversight of congress. it means lawmakers themselves now get to police themselves for ethics. this means no ethics investigation information will have to be released to the public. they can police themselves now. nancy pelosi put out a statement on this tonight. quote, republicans claim they want to drain the swamp but the night before the new congress gets sworn in, the house gop has
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