It looks like House Republicans are backpedaling on the changes they made last night to the ethics committee.
Here are a few tweets that are just breaking:
News: rules change to OCE has been pulled, just now at conference meeting in Capitol basement
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 3, 2017
BREAKING – House Rs reverse course on OCE
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) January 3, 2017
NEW: House Republicans withdraw ethics changes for now, postpone to future date.
— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) January 3, 2017
It’s official. Rule changes have been pulled
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) January 3, 2017
I’ll have more here as it develops on this…
Here’s more:
McCarthy asked Rs to pull the ethics change by unanimous consent. Told them GOP didn't have the votes to pass the rules package, per Dent
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 3, 2017
Members spilling out of HC-5. Say the OCE change is dead for now but not forever. Many want to return to this issue soon…
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 3, 2017