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Walden, Blumenauer Back New Ethics System

By John Bresnahan
Roll Call Staff
March 16, 2006, Midnight

Reps. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) have become the latest entrants into the Congressional ethics reform debate, with the introduction of their bill to abolish the House ethics committee and replace it with an “Independent Ethics Commission” made up of 11 former Members of the House.

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