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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (341227)1/9/2003 10:58:53 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
The Republicans are going to allow themselves more rewards from lobbyists:

House GOP Eases Some Ethic Rules
January 8, 2003
latimes.com. E-mail story

From Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans unraveled some of their strict ethic
rules Tuesday, passing changes that would allow charities to give lawmakers
free travel and lodging at resorts and make it easier for lobbyists to send free
food to congressional offices.

The move by the Republican leadership was hidden so well it even caught
leaders of the House Ethics Committee by surprise. A Republican leadership
aide called the changes cosmetic, but Democrats characterized them as a
serious erosion of ethical standards.

The revisions were part
of a package of rule
changes that passed on a
221-203 party-line vote.
A Democratic effort to
kill the revisions lost, 225
to 200.

"The Republican majority
made much of past
abuses in this body," said
Rep. Martin Frost
(D-Texas) in the House's
first debate of the 108th
Congress. "Yet, now that
the Republicans believe
they have a safe and
secure majority for the
foreseeable future, they want to undo some of the significant strides that were
made."

John Feehery, spokesman for House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois,
called the changes clarifications.

Republicans imposed strict ethic rules after taking over the House in 1995, following 40 years of
Democratic control and many ethic investigations of members.
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