Earlier this year, D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown announced that professors and graduate students at Georgetown University?s Public Policy Institute would help him draft legislation strengthening the District?s weak ethics rules. While Brown was seemingly impressed enough with their work to grant them a ceremonial resolution and craft legislation around their ideas, not many other people seem to share those sentiments.
During a D.C. Council hearing today, D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan and other witnesses largely dismissed the central components of the Comprehensive Ethics Reform Act sponsored by Brown and council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) as exceedingly bureaucratic and largely ineffective. Nathan called the creation of a new Office of Government Accountability a ?duplicative bureaucracy? that would ?divert energy and resources? from existing D.C. agencies and offices tasked with policing and enforcing ethics rules for government employees. (One good government group had already called the legislation ?toothless.?)
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