No matter what level of corruption the members of Congress engage in, the ethics committees do nothing. It's a national embarrassment.
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The Democrats lost in large part because of the ethics problems. Now only 11 years later, we have the Republicans acting just like the Democrats and maybe even worse. Worse yet, they're acting like nobody cares even though their approval rating is only 36 percent, a low comparable to the '94 approval rating of the Democrat-controlled Congress.
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