🚨NEWS: A Dem source familiar with a bipartisan meeting between Senate lawmakers today described ethics negotiations as “rocky,” citing what they characterized as an “about-face” by GOP members and the White House on an agreement they say had previously been reached ahead of the Senate Banking Committee markup last month.
That agreement, I’m told, originally included a provision that would have allowed state attorneys general to sue the DOJ for failing to enforce certain ethics provisions.
GOP sources respond by saying that concerns were later raised by senators not involved in the ethics discussions about allowing state AGs to bring such actions against federal officials, including members of Congress.
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