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Steny Hoyer: “Cutting 5% from the office of Government Ethics while it…”

Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

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Hoyer: If We Abdicate Our Responsibility as a Coequal Branch of Government, We Will No Longer Be One

Published | Video Starts at 02:13

We say we want to have people operating effectively, but if you have no hearings and you have staff that is not experienced and effective, you're not going to have oversight Cutting 5% from the office of Government Ethics while it remains dangerously headless. No leader, frankly, cutting all of these. And the President, when he came to office talking about waste, fraud and abuse, the first thing he did was fire all the IGs who were not political. (02:13–02:22)

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Asserts that the bill cuts funding from the Office of Government Ethics, which lacks leadership.

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