Frosh Call for Ethics Overhaul

Bill Would End Current Panel

• By Susan Davis
• Roll Call Staff
• April 9, 2007, Midnight

Seeking to fulfill their campaign promises, Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.) and several of his party’s most vulnerable freshmen quietly introduced a bill before the Easter recess to eliminate the ethics committee and replace it with an independent outside commission made up of former Members who are not lobbyists.