Washington, D.C. - Texas Congressman Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands) describes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s flawed Ethics Commission proposal as heavy on politics and light on real accountability.

“The public should demand strong standards from representatives in Congress, but they should also insist Speaker Pelosi stop creating new excuses to avoid making the current bi-partisan House ethics committee do its job,” says Brady, who in the past has served in the pool of House members designated to conduct ethics investigations.  

“I don’t believe she is serious about ethics reform. Instead of accountability, the Speaker says the answer to better ethics is to create another 6-member bi-partisan commission on top of the current 10 member bi-partisan ethics committee. That’s no solution, especially since a major reason the existing House committee stalled investigations for two years is that Ms. Pelosi appointed a Democrat leader, Rep. Alan Mollohan, who it turns out is himself under FBI investigation.”

Brady says the public doesn’t want more stonewalling or political witch hunts.

 “My constituents want accountability from the Speaker on down. If bigger bureaucracy guaranteed better ethics, this would be the most ethical government in history.”