House GOP guts ethics panel

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(01-03-2017, 05:24 PM)Griever Wrote: looks like they arent scrapping it now

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/politics/office-of-congressional-ethics-oversight-of-ethics-committee-amendment/index.html

(01-03-2017, 05:29 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Yeah. Just saw that. Apparently, there wasn't uniform support throughout the GOP for this (I heard that Paul Ryan was against the changes). 

Trump tweeted he was against it, and now claims that his tweet changed their minds. Not sure if that is true, but I do give him credit for picking the better side on this issue. 

I saw Trumps tweet about it on CNN.  Seemed to me, he wasn't necessarily against the action, but was against the timing.  He basically said paraphrasing "Don't you guys have better thing to do at this point?"

Personally, I don't have a problem with reforms that limit potential partisan witch hunts, but the committee has an important job I think, and needs to stay.