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House GOP Quietly Shields Lawmakers Records from Ethics Probes
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 13, 2017 04:33pm |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Author | Eric Pianin |
| News Date | Monday, January 9, 2017 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | After congressional ethics experts, voters, and President-elect Donald Trump forced House Republicans to back down last week from a rules change that would have eviscerated the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, one important sentence quietly slipped through another rule change.
That sentence enables individual members to hide official documents that could prove embarrassing or even incriminating if they were suddenly investigated by the ethics office or the Justice Department for criminal activity. |
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