goldenequity
01-03-2017, 02:11 PM
oopsy... go HERE (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?505958-With-one-tweet-Trump-smacks-Congress-upside-the-head&goto=newpost).
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GOP bails on ethics office overhaul after outcry from Democrats & Trump (https://www.rt.com/usa/372566-house-ethics-office-scandal/)
https://cdn.rt.com/files/2017.01/original/586bcb6cc46188eb378b45d4.jpg
House Republicans backtracked on plans to abolish the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE)
after Democrats opposed to it found an unexpected ally in President-elect Donald Trump,
who has urged his party to focus on “more important things.”
Plans to abolish the ethics office
were included in rules changes the 115th Congress was expected to pass
as it convened on Tuesday.
Following backlash from both the Democrats and the president-elect, however,
the Republican conference called an emergency meeting
and voted to drop the proposal with unanimous consent.
The revisions would have transformed the OCE
into the ‘Office of Congressional Complaint Review’
and strip it of its ability to refer criminal cases to law enforcement,
excepting anonymous tips from whistleblowers, or communicate with the general public.
"In other words... it would have gagged the watchdog...
turned the BELL into a 'silent alarm' to notify 'proper' authorities."
The newly neutered office would also be placed under the oversight of the House Ethics Committee,
according to changes proposed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia).
Trump tweeted out his opposition to the motion on Tuesday morning:
Donald J. Trump
"With all that Congress has to work on,
do they really have to make
the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog,
as unfair as it may be,
their number one act and priority?
Focus on tax reform, healthcare
and so many other things of far greater importance! #DTS"
BULLY PULPIT
"There are two remarkable things about this:
1) Trump's bully pulpit is having real and positive effects even before he enters office; and
2) Trump allied with Democrats as well as some Republicans to force this change,
indicating a pragmatic President rather than an ideologically-driven one.
I don't think the US has had one of those since Franklin Roosevelt."
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GOP bails on ethics office overhaul after outcry from Democrats & Trump (https://www.rt.com/usa/372566-house-ethics-office-scandal/)
https://cdn.rt.com/files/2017.01/original/586bcb6cc46188eb378b45d4.jpg
House Republicans backtracked on plans to abolish the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE)
after Democrats opposed to it found an unexpected ally in President-elect Donald Trump,
who has urged his party to focus on “more important things.”
Plans to abolish the ethics office
were included in rules changes the 115th Congress was expected to pass
as it convened on Tuesday.
Following backlash from both the Democrats and the president-elect, however,
the Republican conference called an emergency meeting
and voted to drop the proposal with unanimous consent.
The revisions would have transformed the OCE
into the ‘Office of Congressional Complaint Review’
and strip it of its ability to refer criminal cases to law enforcement,
excepting anonymous tips from whistleblowers, or communicate with the general public.
"In other words... it would have gagged the watchdog...
turned the BELL into a 'silent alarm' to notify 'proper' authorities."
The newly neutered office would also be placed under the oversight of the House Ethics Committee,
according to changes proposed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia).
Trump tweeted out his opposition to the motion on Tuesday morning:
Donald J. Trump
"With all that Congress has to work on,
do they really have to make
the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog,
as unfair as it may be,
their number one act and priority?
Focus on tax reform, healthcare
and so many other things of far greater importance! #DTS"
BULLY PULPIT
"There are two remarkable things about this:
1) Trump's bully pulpit is having real and positive effects even before he enters office; and
2) Trump allied with Democrats as well as some Republicans to force this change,
indicating a pragmatic President rather than an ideologically-driven one.
I don't think the US has had one of those since Franklin Roosevelt."