Cole, who has served in the House for nearly two decades and is the top Republican on the Rules Committee, argued during a hearing on a resolution to remove Greene from the Education and Labor and Budget committees that it s a slippery slope if the majority party moves unilaterally to remove a member of the minority party from committees. The Ethics Committee should review the matter in question, determine if a new standard relating to actions taken by a member of Congress before they are elected should be covered by the code of conduct, and make the appropriate recommendations. Doing anything different would risk sending the institution down a precarious path, the end of which we cannot predict, Cole said.