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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Over the course of the 109th Congress, the issue of congressional ethics has taken on new
resonance. Where questionable conduct was once shrugged off as business as usual, now both
the public and the press are demanding greater accountability from members of Congress. An
August 2006 Harris poll shows that 77% of Americans have a negative view of Congress, whilea May 2006 Gallup poll indicates that 83% of Americans consider corruption a serious issue and
64% believe that dealing with corruption should be a high priority for Congress.
In the last two years, the careers of three members have ended as a result of corruption: former
Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted in Texas and is facing possible federal indictment
in the Jack Abramoff scandal; Rep. Randy Duke Cunningham is now serving an eight-year jail
term for bribery, though the federal probe into his activities remains open and may yet
encompass other members of Congress; and Rep. Bob Ney has agreed to plead guilty to crimes
that will likely result in a minimum two-year prison term. In addition, several other members,
including Reps. William Jefferson, Alan Mollohan and Jerry Lewis, and Sens. Conrad Burns and
Bill Frist are also under federal investigation.
When CREW released its report last year, we called it Beyond DeLay, because although Rep.
DeLays ethical transgressions were the most publicized, we believed that there were other
members whose behavior merited scrutiny. Last years report included 13 members, while this
years report includes a startling 20 with five dishonorable mentions. We attribute the increase,
in part, to a press corps more attuned to the issue of congressional ethics with the result that there
have been a greater number of investigative pieces on members conduct.
In the following report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
documents the unethical activities of 25 members of Congress: 17 House Members and three
Senators and five members whose known conduct isnt severe enough for them to make the list,but bears notice. The biggest problem: the members on this list have abused their positions for
the financial benefit of themselves, their friends and their families. Some do this by hiring
unqualified family members, some allow family members to lobby them and many use the
legislative process to earmark for the financial benefit of themselves and others. Members need
to be reminded that a career in public service is not intended to be lucrative. If members want to
get rich, they should become lobbyists.
Although much of the information included in this report has been published in other places,
there is no other comparable compilation of the information in one place.
Despite the appalling conduct of members of both houses, but particularly the House ofRepresentatives -- as well as the largest scandal in congressional history -- the ethics committees
ignominiously persist in turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the conduct of their colleagues. If
Congress is not going to police itself -- and the evidence clearly demonstrates that it is not -- the
ethics committees should be disbanded and the charade ended. Thankfully, the Department of
Justice does not share Congresss willful myopia to corruption.
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