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Draining the 'Swamp' Is Not So Easy

Skeptics Question Bite of Ethics Rules

SOURCE: Elizabeth Williamson // The Washington Post

7 Aug 2007 // After eight months of behind-the-scenes kicking and screaming, the House and Senate passed ethics rules that promise to change how lawmakers raise money, travel and party. That is, if Congress devises a way to enforce them.

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