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House Set to Vote on Republican Rules Package That Guts Ethics Office, Empowers Extreme Right of GOP

HeadlineJan 09, 2023

As House members prepare to vote on a new rules package today, some Republicans say they will withhold their vote unless full details are shared of the concessions made by McCarthy to far-right lawmakers. Some of the known deals include allowing a single Republican lawmaker to force a “motion to vacate” McCarthy’s position as speaker, and a provision allowing lawmakers to propose amendments to appropriations bills, that could defund programs Republicans oppose.

The rules package would also gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, barring it from hiring new staffers while retroactively imposing term limits on members of its board — which would remove three of four Democrats. Republicans also plan to eliminate labor unions of congressional staffers, after the Congressional Workers Union negotiated its first-ever contract just last month.

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