Office of Congressional Ethics

Congressional Ethics may sound like an oxymoron and it probably is, however there is an agency made up of citizens appointed by the speakers of both parties to investigate ethics complaints.  Their mandate will expire at the end of the congressional session unless Pelosi and Boehner re-appoint new members.  Public Citizen has a petition to them urging them to re-authorize the board.  If the OCE isn’t re-authorized and a new board isn’t appointed in the next Congress, it dies. Current investigations into member misconduct will grind to a halt, and 2013 will begin with an even more corruption-prone Congress.

Tell Boehner and Pelosi: Re-authorize and appoint new members to the OCE.