Rep. Katie Porter said her efforts to bring bipartisan support to a presidential ethics bill were foiled after lawmakers spoke to the White House while she was on a plane.
A Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee alleged Monday that several in her party who had initially indicated support for a bipartisan presidential ethics bill got cold feet after talking to the White House. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., previously announced the filing of a 'landmark federal ethics reform bill' with Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the committee’s chairman, targeting financial disclosures, family members joining official travel junkets and other issues.
was proud that I had found three senior Democratic co-sponsors. When I landed, I was really disappointed to learn that those co-sponsors had decided not to support the bill and had had conversations with the White House,' Porter claimed in comments to The Hill newspaper. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment, as the paper cited three Democratic lawmakers it reported to be whom Porter was referring – Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., Kweisi Mfume, D-Md.
During a March 20 Biden impeachment inquiry hearing, Porter said the probe hit a 'dead end' and that the next step should be to 'stop bipartisan attacks on each other.' 'The American people think that the rules that prevent corruption are way too weak to stop politicians from both sides of the aisle from influence peddling,' Porter added.
Influence peddling is a cottage industry in Washington, and we’ve identified deficiencies in current law that have led to a culture of corruption,' Comer said of the bill. 'By creating this bipartisan legislation to provide greater transparency to the financial interactions related to the office of the president and vice-president, we can ensure that moving forward, American presidents, vice presidents, and their family members cannot profit from their proximity to power.
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