Federal Ethics Office Takes Shot at Republican Rush on Trump Cabinet Confirmations

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Sherrilyn Ifill ‏@Sifill_LDF 5m5 minutes ago
Ethics office accuses GOP of rushing Trump Cabinet confirmations

The director of the federal Office of Government Ethics Office on Saturday accused Senate Republicans of rushing confirmations for nominees in President-elect Trump's administration.

In a letter to leading Senate Democrats, Walter Shaub, Jr., the ethics office director, and the busy hearing schedule had overwhelmed his office. He said it had not completed doing ethics screening reviews on several nominees, which he described as a concern.

“As OGE’s director, the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me,” Walter Shaub, Jr., said in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Saturday. “This schedule has created undue pressure on OGE’s staff and agency ethics officials to rush through these important reviews.”

Shaub’s letter to the senators comes just days before the Senate is set to hold a flurry of confirmation hearings beginning on Tuesday. In the letter, Shaub said that the schedule could leave some nominees with “potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues.”

“I am not aware of any occasion in the four decades since OGE was established when the Senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process,” he said.


read: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/313175-ethics-office-accuses-gop-of-rushing-trump-cabinet-confirmations



read entire letter: http://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?embed=true&id=3255189-Response-to-Senators-Schumer-and-Warren-Schumer

The Hill ‏@thehill 13m13 minutes ago
JUST IN: Dems call for Senate to delay hearings on Trump's Cabinet picks following ethics letter
http://hill.cm/aGQwVps

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1. they are doing this to get around scrutiny. these millionaires & billionaires think....

they are above the law.

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2. He's about to see his salary reduced to $1/year. NT

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3. »

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4. ETHICS??? ETHICS???

What's THAT???

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5. Ethics??? Ethics???

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6. update:

The Hill ‏@thehill 13m13 minutes ago
JUST IN: Dems call for Senate to delay hearings on Trump's Cabinet picks following ethics letter
http://hill.cm/aGQwVps

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7. »Warren: No confirmation hearings for Trump appointees until theyre vetted

Raw Story ‏@RawStory 13h13 hours ago
Warren: No confirmation hearings for Trump appointees until they’re vetted for conflicts of interest http://ow.ly/CbUl307MQkc

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8. They couldn't get away with it if the m$m would do their job

and blast this 24/7 like emails.

But, nooooo.. they created "normal-acceptable" trump and they will keep up the charade for appearances to bring down the country like they did with the War on Iraq.

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9. normalizing

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Victoria Brownworth ‏@VABVOX 2h2 hours ago

I have covered politics since my 20s.
Media normalizing of Trump stuns me.
In this climate, Nixon could have stayed in office.

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10. Precisely. Presidents were held to a higher standard and our Media had

integrity. I wish the US m$m to get exactly what they deserve

The mainstream media hated Obama.. too smart for them.. remember the WA press corp?

Then there's this from David Frum that struck me..

David Frum
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No matter how much you disliked any particular policy of presidents 38-44, you knew: they cherished & would defend free institutions
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