WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Republicans in the US House representatives pulled in an emergency meeting on Tuesday a proposal that would strip the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), US media reported.
According to CNBC, House Republicans decided amid much criticism to reverse their decision reached on Monday night to weaken the OCE and place it under the oversight of the House Ethics Committee.
Citing Republican sources, the report noted that the lawmakers agreed unanimously to withdraw the plan from their overall rules package.
The OCE was created in 2008 by Democrats in the House of Representatives in response to a series of corruption and lobbying scandals.
The OCE is responsible for receiving complaints of lawmakers and their staff's wrongdoing from the public, investigating them and answering to an outside board.
