Tell your U.S. Representative to restore intent of 2007 Ethics bill

Public Citizen has an email your representative campaign concerning the recent U.S. House ethics committee's guidelines on convention parties. These lobbyist-paid "honor" parties for lawmakers have given undue influence on those representatives when they return to the Capitol to vote. The 2007 Ethics bill corrected this, but recently the House ethics committee ruled against the intent of this new law. If you agree, please contact your U.S. Representative and tell them to have the House use the Senate ethics committee's correct banning of these convention parties. Thank you.

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The House ethics task force must be consciencious

The Campaign Legal Center's blog has an excellent analysis of our current House ethics task force mission. The force is to recommend any changes to the U.S. House ethics enforcement process, in light of last election season's public outcry against Congress' "culture of corruption."

The point Ms. McGehee makes is that our elected officials must look deep within themselves and find substantive ethics improvements. Ethics is not a band-aid to be slapped on a serious condition. It is a state of consciousness, a realization that professional conduct is a matter of right and wrong.

I went to college at Texas Christian University, and it has bode me well in reflecting on living in this gray-filled world. Yes, there are consequences to human behavior, and that is especially true for our elected representatives in Washington.

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