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Saturday, December 30, 2023
ETHICS
Watchdog names Office of Congressional Ethics as 'Top Ethics Violator of 2023'
by Brady Knox, Breaking News Reporter
December 29, 2023 02:49 PM
A government watchdog has named the Office of Congressional Ethics its "Top Ethics Violator of 2023."
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, which is right-leaning, identified the repeated failure of the OCE to act on violations of ethics rules, particularly the usage of government resources for political campaigning, as the reason for the award.
“The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has failed in its duty to hold Members of Congress accountable," FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold said. "Its complete inaction in numerous cases of Members abusing official taxpayer-funded resources for political purposes functions as an endorsement of violating basic ethics rules — and it's simply not too much to ask for enforcement when violations openly appear in places as public as social media platforms. The OCE’s continued failure to act will only result in further erosion of public trust in Congress and those bodies intended to hold them accountable."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watchdog-office-congressional-ethics-ethics-violator-2023
