House Mandates 1 Hour of Ethics Training for Freshman Class

[brooklynite]

Source: Roll Call

The House GOP appears to have had a change of heart on mandatory ethics training for members — at least the newest ones.

Tucked into the rules package adopted on Tuesday was a provision from Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., that will require the 114th Congress’ freshman class to undergo the same one-hour ethics training that is required for new House staff. The amendment, adopted during a closed-door Republican conference meeting Monday night, will apply to all 58 freshly minted members.

House Rules Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said it came down to “what is the right thing to do,” when asked if he had evolved from his earlier view that it was not “proper” to add ethics training to the list of requirements for serving in the chamber.

Last month, as the rules package was being drafted, Sessions said, “We look at the Constitution and say 25 years old, elected, and that’s your obligations,” regarding the proposal from Rigell and Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. But the intervening time between then and the adoption of the package on Monday night among Republicans and on the floor Tuesday afternoon produced a change in sentiment for the Texas Republican and those shaping the rules.

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Oh, too many jokes.....

[Historic NY]

1. Better offer a refresher courses for the other morons..

[Fred Sanders]

8. Ethics training to be led by Roger Ailes.

[closeupready]

2. How to, what, evade them? They are the experts at that,

that's for damn sure.

[davidsilver]

3. Should require 40 hours for Freshman Teapublicans!

[Cryptoad]

4. Funny

by time they get to People's House, they are beyond redemption !

[geretogo]

5. Ethics in the Rethuglican party ,tell me another one .

[Scuba]

6. Also called "How Not To Get Caught".

[hughee99]

7. Exactly, the only thing ethics training teaches people in congress is how to technically

skirt the existing laws or at least cover their tracks.

[Archae]

9. Nap time!

[Chasstev365]

10. Yet Teachers .....

are required to spend many hours and thousands of dollars of their own money on grad classes, professional development, etc. due to laws that these same elected morons passed.

1 HOUR OF ETHICS TRAINING? Wow! I mean, just wow! Maybe it time for a general strike in this country over the hypocrisy of our elected officials.

[George II]

11. Only an hour?

[rurallib]

12. one hour vs. the many hours they require them to fundraise

shows where the priorities lie.

[olddad56]

13. is that a class where the indoctrinate the newies on how to be legally unethical?

[SeattleVet]

14. A whole *hour* of training?

Oooohhhhh....like that will make a difference.

Should be at least a full day, with a 4-hour 'refresher' every year, for *everyone*., not just incoming representatives. And it must be held in the DC area - no junkets to the Caribbean allowed for this course.

Impose exactly the same for the Senate, and all of their staffers.

[The Shredder]

15. No no! The Republicans are required to spend 52 unpaid weeks

to learn ethics procedures and they have to start with the "Being Friends with Each Other" song from kindergarten class.

Once they reach the 52nd week, they will be rewarded with requirement to learn it all over again, from K-12 to be ABSOLUTELY sure...

and while the Republicans are busy forgetting what they are learning, they will be required to send in a Democratic substitute for the time being.

And while they're at it, take a vacation between those 52 weeks...

[NV Whino]

16. Ah, the jokes, they start already

[Enrique]

17. don't hand out lobbyist checks on the House floor

hand them out in the members' offices where no one can see you.

[harrose]

18. Really? If the Repukes had any ethics...

... they'd resign en masse from Congress and every other office.