House Rule Change Makes Ethics Probes Harder
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A day after backing off a rules  change that would have allowed an indicted congressional leader  to retain his post, the House of Representatives on Tuesday  adopted a separate change that will make it harder to pursue  ethics probes of members of Congress.
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Prospective jurors could keep more personal information private and challenge overly intrusive questioning by lawyers under a proposed overhaul of the way jurors are selected and serve.
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Rules to prevent fraud going undetected at US companies are to be amended after complaints they are too costly.
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New rules announced yesterday will make it easier to investigate a bioterror attack on the US food supply, though they won&#39;t change the underlying
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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.
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Emerging Republican proposals to change the way House ethics complaints are handled present a serious threat to the House&#39;s ability to police itself, leaders of independent groups that monitor Congressional ethics say.
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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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House Republicans who larded legislation with lawmakers' pet projects when they ran the House have successfully forced Democrats to be more open about Congress' pork barrel ways.
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The House ethics committee has ruled that a Democratic lawmaker exaggerated in the accusations he brought in June against the majority leader, Representative Tom DeLay.
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The National Institutes of Health moved toward new ethics rules for its researchers Tuesday, a step officials hope will end controversy over paid consulting arrangements between some of its doctors and major drug companies.
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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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A House task force yesterday recommended creating an independent Office of Congressional Ethics that would have the power to initiate reviews of lawmakers' behavior.
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Republicans could face ethics investigations for contacting U.S. attorneys about pending cases, a jarring political development only four months after ethical lapses helped cost the GOP control of Congress
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Sen. Patrick Leahy, contending a judicial panel has weakened ethics rules for judges who accept corporate-sponsored trips, said Friday he plans to reintroduce legislation to define standards.
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Some members of the House oversight committee may have violated a federal law against soliciting things of value from people with interests before the committee.
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay by changing a party rule that likely would have forced him to step down if he is indicted in a Texas political corruption investigation.
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Lawyers, accountants and other professionals who offer tax advice must meet stricter ethical standards under guidelines issued by the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service on Friday.