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Someone has finally stepped up to hit Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) with an ethics complaint.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE).
The group alleged that Schiff has “abused official resources for political purposes.”
The Video
The video in question is from Trump’s impeachment hearing.
Kendra Arnold, executive director of FACT, stated, “This is a clear violation of House ethics rules and federal law.
“Rep. Schiff has been in Congress for over two decades and undoubtedly knows that official government resources cannot be used for political purposes.
“Rep. Schiff must immediately take down the video and cease distribution of the footage, and the Office of Congressional Ethics should move swiftly to investigate and sanction Rep. Schiff for this breach.”
Schiff’s campaign insists he is doing nothing wrong.
His office responded, “House ethics rules prohibit the use of House floor or committee footage for campaign purposes — the rules do not apply to footage from the Senate, which is what was used in Congressman Schiff’s video.
“No footage from any House proceeding was used in the video, and Congressman Schiff was fully in compliance with House ethics guidelines.”
You decide…
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The complaint states, “Federal law states that ‘appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.’
“To enforce this law, the ethics rules prohibit members from using any official resource for campaign or political purposes. ‘Official resources’ includes anything funded by taxpayers, such as a member’s official website, social media accounts, and photographs and video from the House or Senate floor.
“To make it abundantly clear, both the House ethics rules and Senate rules specifically identify congressional video of floor proceedings as official resources that members are prohibited from using for political purposes.”
There does seem to be a precedent in place from 2017 that would back the complaint, but we all know how this works with Congress.
We are asking the criminals to investigate their fellow criminals, and it usually ends up with nothing worse than a slap on the wrist, if that.
