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Naming disgraced former CIA chair Porter Goss, who knows plenty about lack of ethics, as co-chair of the new Office of Congressional Ethics, is certainly a TV-classic level shark-jump. Besides Goss, the rest of the board looks like a bunch of retreads and mutual back-scratchers.

Via David Kurtz, Talking Points Memo Former CIA Director Porter Goss has been appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) as co-chairman of the new Office of Congressional Ethics.

Fresh off getting a New York Times spanking for his plethora of rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, House Ways and Means Chairman Rangel is now the focus of a Washington Post piece about his apparent shakedown of corporations doing business before his committee — and on official letterhead, no less.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington charges just that, charging that Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes somehow helped get Erika Possert, whom Reyes described as the aunt of his sister-in-law's son's wife, freed from Mexican captors on payment of ransom.

Back from PDF Conference in NYC; how is Tom Ridge like Adil Hoxha?; more mortgage disclosures; congressional ethics office empty; and more failed challenges from Hall of Shame indictee William Jefferson. For two years, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge failed to disclose that he lobbied and consulted for Albania.

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Don't you generally have to know what ethics are before you can create a board to investigate any lapses in ethics that House members may have? USAToday An independent ethics board created by the House of Representatives this week is meant to put some teeth into a self-policing process that has been all-but-dormant for years.

House Creates New Panel On Ethics By Jonathan Weisman The Washington Post The House last night approved one of the most significant changes to its ethics rules in decades, creating for the first time an independent panel empowered to initiate investigations of alleged misconduct by members of the chamber.

House Roll Call: Ethics Office6 hours ago - By The Associated Press, AP Writer The 229-182 roll call Tuesday by which the House passed a resolution creating an independent Office of Congressional Ethics.house, rollcall, ethics, congressional-ethics, politics0