Gail Boerwinkle - What most people don't understand is that the "independent" ethics committee - created solely by a party-line vote by the Democrats in 2008 (when they controlled all branches of gov't) - requires reform because it allows for unconstitutional accusations by anonymous informants. The 6th amendment outlines many of the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to confront your accuser and cross-examine them. Three Congressmen have been sent to jail by this body operating in this unconstitutional manner.

You may think it's "weakening" ethics investigations, but I ask you, would you like to stand a felony trial with no right to cross-examine your accuser? Maybe you'd like to be hanged out back without even a trial. That is essentially what happens in this "independent" (read Democratic Party controlled) ethics committee.

That needs to change so that it's fairly based on constitutional guidelines.