Unfairly. What is wrong with having an overzealous watch Dog Committee . And isnt getting rid of this office the kind of swampy stuff that republicans across America Elected donald trump to get rid of . Theyre bringing anonymous charges and trying them in a public arena. A person targeted by that has to defend themselves after theyve been attacked publicly when they dont have a right to face their accuser. Thats a right that goes right back to jesus himself standing before the high priest. Im going to read it off the screen here, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it is . So the President Elect appears to be making the argument that you guys have a lot of other things on their plate. Why make this the first move in secret the way it went down last night . I would have been happy to bring that to the floor and let
democrats vote on that independently. I think you would have seen strong support
be some sort of oversight when it sort of them taking your word for it, is it not? we ve always had oversight in congress. it s always been the ethics commite that s balanced. i would assure constituents that if you have a complaint, have an objection, take it to your member of congress. if your objection is about your member of congress, take it to another member of congress. or you can file a public complaint with the office of congressional ethics but you can t hide behind you can t do it anonymously. and then the ethics committee will be doing oversight of the office of congressional ethics so they re folded in together and there are just some rules that take away the things they were doing that are unethical. it unethical to leak confidential information to the public. even having this conversation and you making this argument and defending the moves that you made, do you worry it going to make congress sound frankly a little bit tone deaf as they re kicking off this new ses