First steps toward ethics reform in Congress
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Incoming Speaker Pelosi unveils a reform agenda - even as corruption probes of two Democrats proceed.
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With nary an objection, the Senate approved legislation to strengthen protections for federal employees who reveal waste, fraud and abuse, setting up negotiations with the House on the first major expansion of whistle-blower rights since 1989.
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Technology industry executives are pushing the U.S. Congress to reform the way patents are issued in order to process them more quickly while also making sure they are legitimate.
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As debate on patent reform began this morning on the floor of the US House of Representatives, twelve amendments made their way through the Rules Committee, all of which appear to be designed to tweak the bill's language rather than insert any "poison pills" that would ensure its failure.
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The House changed its rules Thursday to require lawmakers to identify the special projects they slip into legislation, a modest step toward restoring the reputation of Congress in a year of ethical lapses and scandals involving relations with lobbyists.
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When previous Republican administrations were accused of illegality in the FBI and CIA spying abuses of the 1970s or the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, Democrats in Congress launched investigations or pushed for legislative reforms.
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An inquiry into a sex scandal inolving a former Republican lawmaker begins at the US Congress.
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A House committee chairman who has been connected to lobbyists accused of bilking Indian tribes out of millions of dollars said Wednesday that he has been asked to meet with members of the House ethics committee.
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The US House ethics committee&#39;s rebuke of Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week focused on an issue never raised publicly before: the appearance of impropriety created by an exclusive
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Vignettes from the first day of the 109th Congress:
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for tighter ethics rules in federal agencies Wednesday after government officials approved the purchase of a $980,000 vacation home by a top Justice Department lawyer with an oil company lobbyist.
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The House ethics committee has determined that a trip to South Korea that two Republican congressmen cut short did not violate House travel rules.
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Monday's indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) touched off an ethics battle in the House yesterday, with leaders from both parties moving quickly against Jefferson even as they accused each other of having no real interest in tighter ethics rules.
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WASHINGTON - The US House ethics committee announced yesterday that it would investigate a complaint against Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle.
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Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., is under strong consideration to become the next chairman of the House ethics committee as Speaker Dennis Hastert works to recast a panel roiled by controversy, Republican officials said Tuesday night.
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Keeping momentum on ethics reforms is proving tough for House Democratic leaders, who are struggling to sell  lawmakers on a proposal for overhauling House ethics enforcement, which is part of the party's pledge to improve accountability in Congress.
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House leaders are creating a bipartisan task force to recommend whether to establish an independent ethics panel to police the House, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.