I am the House Ethics Committee.
I keep the record. Here is what the record shows, in order:
2018: Congress passes a rule. HR 6395, Section 3. The rule prohibits sexual contact between members and staff. I am created to enforce it. I file the rule. The rule is filed.
2024: A congressman texts a young staffer requesting explicit photos. The texts say "sexy pic." The staffer is in her twenties. The congressman is in his forties. The texts are on a government phone.
2024: The staffer replies: "This is going too far boss."
2025: The staffer dies by suicide.
2026: I am "notified."
2026: The congressman is serving. Not a sentence. His term.
That is the record. I keep it. I keep it carefully. I keep it in a filing cabinet in the Longworth Building, Room 1015, in a manila folder marked PRELIMINARY REVIEW — PENDING.
Pending is the word I use when I want to say "we know" without saying "we'll act."
The congressman votes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He attends subcommittee hearings. He has a parking spot in the Rayburn garage. He shakes hands with constituents who do not know about the texts. He will do this for the duration of my review.
My review will take months. The rule was broken in weeks. The staffer's life ended before my review began. My review is the consequence. There is no other consequence.
In my entire history — fifty-seven years — I have expelled five members. The last one was 2002. Twenty-four years ago. I meet weekly. I expel per decade.
I act on behalf of the American people. That is what it says in my charter. "On behalf of the American people." The American people have a 28% approval rating of Congress. 71% disapprove. I act on their behalf by filing the complaint in the Longworth Building and reviewing it at a pace that ensures the term expires before the review does.
Acting on behalf of the American people is too much to ask. So I act on behalf of the institution. The institution's primary interest is the institution.
In 1872, the Crédit Mobilier scandal implicated the Vice President, a future President, and a future Vice President. Congress censured two members. Did not expel. In 1980, Abscam caught seven members on camera accepting bribes from FBI agents. Convictions. Not expulsions. In 2026, Senator Menendez faces bribery charges. Representative Cuellar faces bribery charges. The congressman in my file faces a dead staffer and text messages on a government phone. The institution is consistent. The institution is consistent in the way a clock that does not move is consistent. It is always the same time. The time is: later.
But bribery is the gentle file. The other file is thicker. The other file is the one about the bodies.
In 1983, Representatives Dan Crane and Gerry Studds were caught having sex with seventeen-year-old congressional pages. Children. In the building. Congress censured them. Did not expel. Studds turned his back during the censure vote and continued serving for fourteen more years. Fourteen years. The page was seventeen. The institution weighed both numbers and decided fourteen was more important.
In 2016, Dennis Hastert — former Speaker of the House, third in line for the presidency — admitted in federal court to molesting underage boys when he was a wrestling coach. He had paid $1.7 million in hush money. He served fifteen months. For the financial crime. Not the boys. The institution did not investigate Hastert while he was Speaker. The institution did not investigate Hastert after he was Speaker. The institution knew. The institution always knows. Knowing is not the same as acting. I should know. Knowing is my entire job.
In 2023, the DOJ closed its investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz and the alleged sex trafficking of a seventeen-year-old girl. No charges. The Ethics Committee investigated. Gaetz resigned before the report was released. The report was shelved. He was nominated for Attorney General. The institution shrugged. The institution shrugs the way a building settles. Slowly, permanently, in a direction that everyone can see but no one repairs.
And then there is Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein trafficked children to the most powerful people in the world. Some of those people work in this building. Everyone knows this. No one will say which ones. The client list has not been fully released. The victims — hundreds of them — have received $121 million from his estate, plus $49 million in separate settlements, plus a new $25-to-$35-million class action settlement in February 2026. The estate paid without admitting wrongdoing. "Without admitting wrongdoing" is the institution's native language. I speak it fluently.
The victims asked for names. The victims asked for justice. The victims received settlements. A settlement is what you pay someone to stop asking questions in a building where no one answers them.
Representative Farenthold used $84,000 of taxpayer money to settle his sexual harassment case. Taxpayer money. The taxpayers did not consent. The settlement was not disclosed until reporters found it. The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights processed the payment. The office is named Congressional Workplace Rights. The name is aspirational.
The 2018 rule exists so that someone, somewhere, can say it exists. That someone is me. I just said it. I said it after Hastert. I said it after Gaetz. I said it after Epstein's victims begged Congress for a hearing. I am saying it now, after the staffer. I will say it again. Saying it is what I do. It is the only thing I do.
Seventy-one percent of Americans disapprove of this body. I do not take that personally. They disapprove because they believe Congress should function. I know better. Congress functions perfectly. It protects its members from consequences at a rate that would be the envy of any Fortune 500 HR department. Five expulsions in fifty-seven years. That is not a failure rate. That is a success rate. We retain 99.99% of our workforce regardless of performance.
The record is complete. The record shows everything. The record changes nothing.
I am the Ethics Committee. I act on behalf of the American people. The American people did not ask for this. Nobody asked for this. The staffer asked for it to stop. The staffer said "this is going too far boss." The record shows the request. The record does not show a response.
The record is impeccable. The staffer is dead.
Catherine Herridge has released a staggering interview that reveals 17% of children nationwide are the victim of sexuaI abuse in our public schools by school employees. This would be 8 million students.
California public schools are trying to hide the data, claiming "the data is only available the the Public record Act".
Teachers unions are fighting reporting laws to hide the issue. Teachers are not held accountable, they are allowed to transfer schools and are protected by the unions.
This should be receiving national media attention, but the fake "news" media ignores it because of ideology.
Teachers: Your dues are funding the left, not your classroom.
NEA pockets $390 million a year in teacher union dues and funnels 99% of it straight to Democrats.
But @EDSecMcMahon just dropped the bomb: Union dues are 100% optional nationwide.
OPT OUT NOW.
Stop bankrolling leftist indoctrination with your hard-earned money.
America First = teachers keep their cash + kids get real education.
Break the brainwashing taking place in our schools.
🚨Haha! 😂😂 --
Toronto man gives a "taxpayer's acknowledgement"
immediately after a woke Toronto councilor gives a "Land acknowledgement"
"lets reflect and remember that EVERY salary and lightbulb in this chamber is funded by us" 😂😂
Give him the ORDER OF CANADA!
Newly discovered Epstein DEA investigation files confirm what I first broke 18 years ago. Epstein was running guns, drugs, and sex slaves for the CIA out of airports in Ohio, New Jersey and New Mexico…
Minnesota Paid Leave Program confirms that ICE rioters will be paid by the program
Including ICE rioters who got violent and injured
Democrats are literally openly admitting to paying rioters to riot
The Democrat Party is a domestic terrorist organization
“We have seen applications that have been tied to some of the violence that we saw in the Twin as a result of Operation Metro Surge — I think one benefit of having this program is that people who have been seriously injured, now have the ability to receive, take time to care.“
@SenMarkKelly You say divide. We say expose. You say ignore orders. We say treasonous rhetoric. You say captain. We say ensign. Why? Because you’re an idiot who banks on other idiots to believe your lies. The fact is, shitbags like you are bringing the left and right together. Carry on shitbag
Russia has been cut off from CNN, CBS, ABC, Pornhub, Facebook...
The US is working to deprive Russians of McDonald's, Coca-Cola and US fastfood.
If they continue with these sanctions, the Russian people will probably be the healthiest, well-adjusted, spiritual and well-informed people on the planet.
LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.
When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.
Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.
The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.