Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Call to Arms
Senator Barack Obama has introduced legislation to ensure that Congressional ethics rules are enforced. Currently, the congressional ethics committees are ineffectual. An independent commission with oversight of ethics rules is a critical step for Congress to take in response to the Abramoff scandal.

Contact your representatives and urge them to support S. 2259.

What Senator Obama is proposing already exists in several states. Just last week, Tennessee created an independent commission because of a bribery scandal in their legislature. An independent commission is needed since Congress can't police itself. Most of what Abramoff and company did was against the rules—but no one was enforcing them.
The text of the bill is here.
Written at 5:22 AM by Lynne.
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