| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) |
| Contents |
1. The Ethics Wars -- The Gingrich Era -- Partisan Politics -- Recent Battles -- Changing Mores -- Discretionary Justice and the Ethics Committees -- The Future of Ethics -- Bookends to an Era -- 2. The Apple and Other Temptations -- In the Beginning -- Expulsion -- An Eye for an Eye -- Let Those Without Sin ... -- Leaving the Garden of Eden -- 3. Joe McCarthy and the Ethics Process -- The Reluctant Senate -- Powell, Baker, and the Evolution of the Ethics Process -- The Birth and Baptism of the Ethics Committees -- 4. Abscam and the "Keating Five" -- Abscam -- The ""Keating Five" -- Corruption or Constituent Service -- How Politics Prevailed -- 5. The New Rules of the Ethics Wars -- Mr. Sam, -- If You Go After a King, Kill Him, -- Power No Longer Protects -- Pay Raises Cost Votes -- Anger and the Decline in Public Confidence -- Absent Public Wrath, Congress Will Avoid Ethical Tangles -- 6. Sex : The Sin of Hypocrisy -- The Packwood Case -- The Charges -- The Process -- The Committee's Position -- Grains of Truth -- 7. Torricelli, the CIA, and the Intelligence Committee -- The CIA and Congressional Ethics -- Torricelli and Nuccio -- The Ends and the Means -- 8. Forgery : The Case of the Purloined Stationery -- 9. The Noble Lie : Modern Ethical Dilemmas -- The Nethercutt Ads -- Noble Lies, -- When Lying Fails -- The Future of Lies -- 10. The Politics of Venom -- Appendix A, Summary of U.S. Senate Sanctions -- Appendix B, Summary of Expulsion, Censure, Reprimand, and Ethics Procedures in the House of Representatives, 1798-1999 |
| Summary |
The Congressional ethics process has been transformed into a lethal, partisan political tool, feared by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. Newt Gingrich, the Ghengis Khan of recent American politics, wrenched the humdrum Congressional ethics process out of its lethargy and turned it into an offensive tool for partisan gain. Now, instead of yawning, lawmakers quake at the thought of an ethics inquiry that can easily, often unfairly, tip elections and ruin careers. While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Sue and Marty Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyse the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles |
| Notes |
Originally published 2004 by Westview Press |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Congress -- Ethics.
|
| SUBJECT |
United States. Congress fast |
| Subject |
Ethics
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Tolchin, Martin
|
| ISBN |
9780429968761 |
|
0429968760 |
|
9780429979842 |
|
0429979843 |
|
9780429990922 |
|
0429990928 |
|
9780429500213 |
|
0429500211 |
|
