Wednesday, June 21, 2006

U. S. House manages to avoid ethics reform

Ignoring the public desire for actual reform in the way it does business, the U. S. House of Representatives has ignored calls to eliminate travel financed by private interests in favor of a new system that will require the House Ethics Committee to approve each such trip.
Apparently, legislators have grown so used to these freebies they can't let go of them. An editorial in today's New York Times addresses the subject.

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