New REPUBLICAN CONGRESS - FILLING UP THE SWAMP & COVERING FELLOW CRIMINALS

UPDATE:  Due to the massive, negative response, this group who oppose the ETHICS committee had to back down!  While House Republican leaders opposed the measure ...the right wing tea-baggers are starting their crap again...we can't take 4 more years like the last four with those stubborn idiots who are once again working for their self-interest.  This is the CONGRESS OF DESTRUCTION and we will live in their Rubble.

This is NOT A GOOD START to our new year of REPUBLICAN CONGRESS....this is the VERY FIRST THING this new Congress did ...they PROTECT THEIR OWN....THEY ARE RE-FILLING THE "SWAMP":

NOTHING HAS CHANGED....JUST GETTING WORSE!

WASHINGTON — House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.

The move to effectively kill the Office of Congressional Ethics was not made public until late Monday, when Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change. There was no advance notice or debate on the measure.

The surprising vote came on the eve of the start of a new session of Congress, where emboldened Republicans are ready to push an ambitious agenda on everything from health care to infrastructure, issues that will be the subject of intense lobbying from corporate interests. The House Republicans’ move would take away both power and independence from an investigative body, and give lawmakers more control over internal inquiries.