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Article: GLASS HOUSES: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- October 1, 2001
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GLASS HOUSES: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom by Martin Tolchin and Susan Tolchin Free Press, $25.00
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE NOW, but there was a time in the mid-1960s when the creation of permanent, bipartisan ethics committees in the House and Senate seemed like a positive step toward open and accountable politics. The Clinton years, however, were not kind to such hopes. Over the past decade, an overly collegial congressional ethics process has given way to the interminable, vicious witch hunts that characterized the Republican Congress. So perhaps the time is ripe for a lucid examination of the Congressional ethics process, a book that cuts through ...