Still strong resistance to changing the ethics rules in the House. The Democratic caucus leaders can't round up the votes on their side:
House Democratic leaders failed to convince enough of their colleagues to support a leadership plan to impose a new layer of ethics scrutiny on lawmakers, forcing leaders late Wednesday to cancel a vote on the measure for the second time in as many weeks.
Democratic leaders intended to bring up a revised ethics plan for a House vote Thursday, even though many of their colleagues continued to openly attack the proposal as a vehicle for partisan witch-hunts and a return to the open ethics warfare of the past.
Apparently, there are many members willing to settle for the status quo, which is basically an ethics committee that does nothing.
Might be helpful for members of Congress to review the findings of the 2006 elections. Pundits on both sides of the aisle, from Rep. Rahm Emanuel and Terry McAuliffe to Karl Rove and Lynne Cheney, stated that the GOP's ethics problems were the reason for the loss of control of the House in 2006.