CQ Politics Online profiles the Office of Congressional Ethics in this article. The House established the office in part to bring more transparency and independence to the ethics process, which had been the sole domain of the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct, the formal name of the ethics committee.
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Jesse Jackson Jr., Rod Blagojevich, and Barack Obama’s Senate Seat
The Times looks into Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s activities relative to Barack Obama’s vacated seat in the Senate. Mr. Jackson asserts he has done nothing wrong and had not known about the fund-raiser’s activities. But with new indications that federal prosecutors and Congressional ethics investigators are stepping up their interest in Mr. Jackson, a nagging […]
Office of Congressional Ethics Now Online
The Office of Congressional Ethics has a website! The site features helpful information about submitting “information concerning allegations within” the Office’s jurisdiction and links to relevant codes, laws, and rules.