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Other reforms included the adoption of severe restrictions on the interaction of members with lobbyists and increased reporting of lobbyists’ activities. For years, congressional watchdog groups have complained that members of the House ethics committee...
Tags: House of Representatives, OCE, House Committee on Rules, ethical committee, ethical complaints, Office of Congressional, house ethical, Washington, Lobbying, Politics, Jack Abramoff, Ethics, Bob Ney, United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) issued the strongly worded defense of its investigation of Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), firing back at an October report by the House ethics panel that had criticized the investigation of Graves as “fundamentally flawed”...
Tags: OCE, ethics committee, House, Sam Graves, Board, Office of Congressional, house ethics, ethics panel, congressional ethics, Washington, Politics, United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
Board members and senior staff of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) are threatening to resign if the ethics committee doesn’t meet a deadline the OCE believes is critical to its role, according to several sources within the ethics community. Former...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, OCE, ethical committee
The OCE was created last year as part of the Democrats’ ethics reform package for the 110th Congress...At its initial meeting on Feb. 23, the six-member OCE board authorized six “preliminary’ reviews. Such reviews may proceed when at least two board members...
Tags: OCE