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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

    Over the course of the 109th Congress, the issue of congressional ethics has taken on new

    resonance. Where questionable conduct was once shrugged off as business as usual, now both

    the public and the press are demanding greater accountability from members of Congress. An

    August 2006 Harris poll shows that 77% of Americans have a negative view of Congress, whilea May 2006 Gallup poll indicates that 83% of Americans consider corruption a serious issue and

    64% believe that dealing with corruption should be a high priority for Congress.

    In the last two years, the careers of three members have ended as a result of corruption: former

    Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted in Texas and is facing possible federal indictment

    in the Jack Abramoff scandal; Rep. Randy Duke Cunningham is now serving an eight-year jail

    term for bribery, though the federal probe into his activities remains open and may yet

    encompass other members of Congress; and Rep. Bob Ney has agreed to plead guilty to crimes

    that will likely result in a minimum two-year prison term. In addition, several other members,

    including Reps. William Jefferson, Alan Mollohan and Jerry Lewis, and Sens. Conrad Burns and

    Bill Frist are also under federal investigation.

    When CREW released its report last year, we called it Beyond DeLay, because although Rep.

    DeLays ethical transgressions were the most publicized, we believed that there were other

    members whose behavior merited scrutiny. Last years report included 13 members, while this

    years report includes a startling 20 with five dishonorable mentions. We attribute the increase,

    in part, to a press corps more attuned to the issue of congressional ethics with the result that there

    have been a greater number of investigative pieces on members conduct.

    In the following report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

    documents the unethical activities of 25 members of Congress: 17 House Members and three

    Senators and five members whose known conduct isnt severe enough for them to make the list,but bears notice. The biggest problem: the members on this list have abused their positions for

    the financial benefit of themselves, their friends and their families. Some do this by hiring

    unqualified family members, some allow family members to lobby them and many use the

    legislative process to earmark for the financial benefit of themselves and others. Members need

    to be reminded that a career in public service is not intended to be lucrative. If members want to

    get rich, they should become lobbyists.

    Although much of the information included in this report has been published in other places,

    there is no other comparable compilation of the information in one place.

    Despite the appalling conduct of members of both houses, but particularly the House ofRepresentatives -- as well as the largest scandal in congressional history -- the ethics committees

    ignominiously persist in turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the conduct of their colleagues. If

    Congress is not going to police itself -- and the evidence clearly demonstrates that it is not -- the

    ethics committees should be disbanded and the charade ended. Thankfully, the Department of

    Justice does not share Congresss willful myopia to corruption.

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