Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter on Tuesday to criticize House Republicans for voting, with no forewarning and behind closed doors, to weaken an independent ethics committee that investigates lawmaker misbehavior. The amendment, which House GOP members voted for 119-74, would also give oversight of the defanged office to the House Ethics Committee, meaning it would be controlled by the people it’s charged with monitoring.
In a series of tweets, Warren called out Donald Trump and the rest of his Republican collaborators for the latest step in ensuring their powers are boundless and unchecked:...
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