House GOP scraps plan to gut ethics watchdog after emergency meeting
BY CRISTINA MARCOS - 01/03/17 12:11 PM EST 855
House Republicans at an emergency conference meeting on Tuesday withdrew a proposal to gut an ethics watchdog.
The new Congress hadn't even formally gaveled in on before GOP leaders held an emergency conference meeting to discuss the blowback against the party's vote Monday evening to gut the chamber's independent ethics watchdog.
Tuesday's meeting came after President-elect Donald Trump issued a series of tweets questioning the timing of the proposed changes, which would have put the independent Office of Congressional Ethics under oversight of the House Ethics Committee.
The House established OCE in 2008 in response to a series of ethics scandals plaguing multiple GOP lawmakers, including three who went to prison.
--This breaking news report will be updated.
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