With added emphasis on Congressional ethics in Washington, the case is likely to be watched carefully in national political circles as well.
"Glass Houses" is one of the first books published on Congressional ethics, and you can understand why.
In other words, the Tolchins are fundamentally right about the silliness of many of the regulations that constitute the corpus of Congressional ethics.
The pathetic state of Congressional ethics is that such nepotic profiteering is deemed legal so long as the compensation is "consistent with the market rate."
The public could use some reassurance on the matter of Congressional ethics.
She was allotted a few minutes on the first day of the session to give a floor speech on Congressional ethics reform, one of her campaign issues.
That itself says something about the general state of Congressional ethics.
The changes in laws and rules enacted in the 1970's seem actually to have worsened the public perception of Congressional ethics.
Others are proposing new enforcement measures to police Congressional ethics.
It was federal prosecutors - and certainly not any Congressional ethics monitors - who followed the rent-a-lawmaker trail.