McCarthy’s Day One Plan: Gut the Office of Congressional Ethics – Mother Jones

"These are measures that will render the ethics office ineffectual and which no member, from either party, should support," Craig Holman, a lobbyist with the government watchdog group Public Citizen said last week. "Today's Republican party is rife with ethical transgressions. And it is now trying to make it much harder to hold members of Congress accountable to the standards of decency we expect."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/mccarthys-day-one-plan-gut-the-office-of-congressional-ethics/

Walter Shaub Wants You To Fight For An Ethical Democracy (On Point)

For decades, Walter Shaub advised presidential candidates about transparency, ethics and how to avoid conflicts of interest. We talk to Shaub about how he ran the Office of Government Ethics and the future of ethics in government.
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/18/walter-shaub-ethics

GOP Backtracks After Elizabeth Warren Shames Them—and Trump—for Secretive Attempt to Scrap Independent Ethics Panel | Alternet

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:...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-backtracks-after-elizabeth-warren-shames-them-and-trump-secretive-attempt

Your Independent Office Of Congressional Ethics Vote Checklist

Backlash was swift after it was revealed Monday night that incoming House Republicans voted to put the Office of Congressional Ethics under the authority of the House Ethics Committee, which has a Republican chair, during a closed-door meeting.

Republicans abruptly changed course Tuesday morning after that public outcry (as well as a tweet from the President-elect chastising the caucus for not having its priorities straight, rather than for weakening the "unfair" OCE), withdrawing the rules change that would have gutted the independent ethics watchdog....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/office-congressional-ethics-vote-checklist

Trump didn’t kill House ethics changes but the media gave him credit anyway

While calls flooded in to members of Congress expressing outrage about House Republicans’ move to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to criticize the timing, not the substance, of the move....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-tweets-office-of-congressional-ethics-media-played-252142ff445#.4ycaslpy8

11 things exposed by the ethics office Republicans just tried to dismantle

On Monday night, on a federal holiday, behind closed doors, House Republicans voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) — the independent body tasked with rooting out corruption and conflicts of interest on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, after a public outcry, they abandoned the plan, though some Congress members suggested they may try again at a later date to gut the ethics panel.

Since the office was created in 2008, it investigated dozens of cases each year, uncovering damning information on Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike. The following cases, which range from insider trading to accepting gifts from foreign governments, reveal the kind of behavior that may now go unchecked without the government watchdog in action....
https://thinkprogress.org/11-things-exposed-by-the-ethics-office-republicans-just-tried-to-dismantle-a115b27a4790#.872c0hsm2