All posts tagged "Senate Ethics Committee"

WASHINGTON — Arguably the most bipartisan – nonpartisan, really – committee in the Senate is also, arguably, the biggest laughing stock on Capitol Hill.

And matters just got worse: The secretive U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has extended one of the most ignoble streaks on Capitol Hill.

For at least 17 years and running, the Senate Ethics Committee — tasked with confidentially investigating allegations of misconduct by the chamber’s austere members and staffers — has failed to formally punish anyone at all, a Raw Story analysis of congressional records indicates. ...