House Republicans Vote to Take Away Independence From Office of Congressional Ethics

House Republicans voted to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent review created in 2008 to investigate misconduct by lawmakers after several large bribery and corruption scandals emerged in Congress, according to NPR. The ethics change was unannounced until Monday evening will be part of a full House vote on Tuesday, which will also include a means for Republican leaders to publish lawmakers who dissent against the rules such as the gun control sit-in live-stream Democrats conducted in 2016."Republicans claim they want to 'drain the swamp,' but the night before the new Congress gets sworn in, the House GOP has eliminated the only independent ethics oversight of their...