Congressional ethics investigators could soon be silenced

[Robert]

Washington (CNN) -- Inside an ordinary office building six blocks from the Capitol, investigators sift through evidence of possible violations against ethics and laws committed by the nation's elected representatives.
This is the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE.
It is one of the most important watchdogs in Washington. That's because the OCE is the only quasi-independent government body whose sole mandate is to formally investigate members of Congress.
But it could soon be silenced by the very people it investigates.
"What is outrageous about it is that you see members of Congress on both sides saying they have zero tolerance for unethical conduct," said Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor who now directs Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
"But then behind closed doors they are quietly trying to kill the one body in Congress that is seriously going after unethical members."
Sloan's public interest group monitors ethics and legal violations by members of Congress. And, like many other citizen watchdog groups in Washington, CREW is worried that the OCE could soon die through purposeful inaction by Congress.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/29/politics/congressional-watchdog-group-threatened/index.html

[Master Blaster]

Think you have it all wrong, The ethics investigator  shutdown is a money saving tactic to help cut the deficit and make more money available to buy votes.  It was found out searching for ethics in Washington was futile as there were none, so the investigators really had no real job, and were just feeding at the trough.  Made the senators and congressmen jealous that someone else had an almost as good of a deal as they and they simply had to do something about it.