The House GOP caucus reversed their plan today to loosen ethics guidelines that would have allowed a committee chairman or party leader to retain their leadership position if indicted. Now, those in leadership positions will be required to give up that position at least temporarily if indicted, as had been the rules previously.
This is a relief, for by relaxing their ethical standards, House Republicans were beginning to conduct themselves in the exact same manner of the Democratic majority they had replaced in 1994. It is never good for a party to relax their ethical standards, and it sends a bad message to the constituents in which they represent. Today's move was an important step, and I'm very glad to see that the House Republicans are not going to go down with their leader, Tom Delay, who has always seemed to me to be overly partisan and antagonistic.
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