The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct recently clarified the application of House rules to the practice of Members making multiple flight reservations (to “improve the Member’ ability to provide representational services for which they were elected”). The memorandum discusses the Senate’s treatment of this practice.
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Congressional Ethics
The Hill reports that [e]thics issues could return to the House floor next week with a debate on a plan, months in the making, to create an independent ethics commission. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), who chaired the task force that crafted the proposal, said he has been told to be prepared for a vote on […]
Featured as speaker, not honored as guest
In today’s Post, Jeffrey Birnbaum notices what he concludes is an “exception large enough to explode the entire statute.” The [Senate ethics] committee ruled that a member of Congress can be a “featured speaker” at a national convention party and not run afoul of the lobbying law. That means that a senator is barred from […]