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Fash Police: Congressional ethics is not an oxymoron [1]
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Date: 2023-03-02
The best that GOP operatives could do to divert attention from George Santos involved fashion statements other than wearing AR-15 lapel pins.
Congressional investigators have extended their review into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), after the Office of Congressional Ethics concluded that Ocasio-Cortez’s 2021 Met Gala dress could have been an improper gift.
“Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have accepted impermissible gifts associated with her attendance at the Met Gala in 2021,” the OCE board wrote in a Thursday afternoon ruling, which was unanimously approved in a 5-0 vote. “If Rep. Ocasio-Cortez accepted impermissible gifts, then she may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law.”
As for what action comes next, the board recommended that the Ethics Committee “further review the above allegation.” But that doesn’t mean the Ethics Committee is formally opening an investigation, which would require a vote to empanel a subcommittee. Despite widespread reporting immediately characterizing the announcement as an ethics investigation, the Ethics Committee issued a statement that conspicuously didn’t mention forming a subcommittee to look into Ocasio-Cortez. Instead, leaders just said they would review the case.
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In a subsequent press release from Ethics Committee chairman Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS) and ranking member Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA), the committee leaders said Ethics would review the matter, noting that a final ruling hadn’t been made. But the Ethics Committee stopped short of opening a formal investigation—a step they didn’t shy away from with Rep. George Santos (R-NY).
Almost simultaneously with the Ocasio-Cortez news, the Ethics Committee announced it had voted unanimously to empanel an investigative subcommittee dedicated to Santos.
Santos, the freshman lawmaker who ran on a resume of almost pure fiction, will face a formal investigation from the Ethics Committee.
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