8 Jan 2017 11:10 am
Seems like Senate Republicans are more than willing to break the rules for Putin's Pet.Ethics Office Warns Confirmations For Trump Nominees Are Moving Too Fast
The Office of Government Ethics is raising alarm over the pace of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's nominees, saying Saturday that they have yet to receive required financial disclosures for some picks set to come before Congress next week.
In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released Saturday, OGE Director Walter Shaub wrote that "the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me" and that the current schedule "has created undue pressure on OGE's staff and agency ethics officials to rush through these important reviews.
"More significantly, it has left some of the nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their scheduled hearings," Shaub continued.
"I am not aware of any occasion in the four decades since OGE was established when the Senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process."
Many of his appointees have never worked in government before so they have never been vetted.
They could have all kinds of conflicts of interest, but since they haven't bothered to fill out their financial disclosures, we won't ever know.
The Republicans are going to ram through a bunch of these unvetted nominees this week.
This coupled with their recent efforts to destroy the Office of Congressional Ethics proves that they don't give a **** about ethics, unless it concerns a Democrat.