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From
staff reports
LOS
ANGELES – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) July 24 announced
her appointment of Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke to
serve on the new six-member Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an
independent office within the House of Representatives as created by
H. Res 895.
The recently established Office of Congressional Ethics will be comprised
of six members – jointly appointed by the Speaker of the House
and the Minority Leader, each who has veto authority over the other’s
appointments. For the first time in the history of the House,
private citizens will be entrusted with an active role in the ethics
enforcement process. In a joint statement, Pelosi and Minority Leader
John Boehner (R-Ohio) named the OCE’s six members as well as
two alternates. The list includes six former lawmakers.
“The new Office of Congressional Ethics is essential to an effective
ethics process in the House,” Pelosi said in a statement. “This
bipartisan board of outside experts who will be charged with reviewing
allegations of misconduct and making recommendations to the House Ethics
Committee. With the creation of the Office of Congressional Ethics,
we bring a new element of transparency and accountability to the ethics
process.”
The board members of the Office of Congressional Ethics are equally
divided among Democrats and Republicans, with each party having three
members and one alternate. The other appointed members include:
•
Former Congressman David Skaggs, D-Colo., chair
•
Former CIA Director and former Congressman Porter J. Goss, R-Fla, co-chair
•
Former House Chief Administrative officer Jay Eagen
•
Former Congresswoman Karan English, D-Ariz.
•
George Mason University Law Professor and former chief of staff of
Federal Election Commission, Allison Hayward
•
Former Federal Judge and former Congressman Abner Mikva, D-Ill., alternate
•
Former Congressman Bill Frenzel, R-Minn., alternate
In her 30-plus years of public service, Burke has amassed various firsts
while serving in various capacities on the congressional level. In
1972 she became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S.
Congress, representing California’s 37th District. She subsequently
was selected to serve as vice chair of the 1972 Democratic National
Convention in Miami and later on the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
In 1973, she became the first member of Congress to give birth while
in office.
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