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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJack Abramoff slams GOP over House ethics changes
Jack Abramoff, the disgraced former lobbyist whose felony crimes eventually helped lead to the creation of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, ripped House Republicans for their move to gut the independent watchdog.
Abramoff, who emerged from prison as a self-styled ethics reformer, told POLITICO that the House GOP package adopted on Monday is exactly the opposite of what Congress should be doing.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-ethics-panel-jack-abramoff-233126
Abramoff, who emerged from prison as a self-styled ethics reformer, told POLITICO that the House GOP package adopted on Monday is exactly the opposite of what Congress should be doing.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-ethics-panel-jack-abramoff-233126
Just how ethically challenged must you be to draw a reprimand from Jack Abramoff? Has Tom Delay made a comment yet?
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Jack Abramoff slams GOP over House ethics changes (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2017
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)1. Bernie Madoff is probably sitting in his prison cell
shaking his head and wondering why those guys aren't in the slammer with him.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)2. What will Newt Gingrich say, I wonder?
Buncha hypocrites.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)3. Headline of the day!
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)4. It just gets better and better, doesn't it
Even Trump himself felt the speed with which the ethics destruction took place was a little unseemly.
My god, what's going to become of us.
coco22
(1,258 posts)5. Tom Delay was the first person I thought of when I heard..
they passed this in the middle of the night.