{"id":9379,"date":"2025-05-19T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hamstrung-house-ethics-watchdog-was-flooded-with-messages-in-q1-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:20:23","slug":"hamstrung-house-ethics-watchdog-was-flooded-with-messages-in-q1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hamstrung-house-ethics-watchdog-was-flooded-with-messages-in-q1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamstrung House ethics watchdog was flooded with messages in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report shows the House&#8217;s ethics watchdog received thousands of messages from the public during the first three months of 2025 &mdash; while it was prohibited from opening any investigations. Those 4,131 communications included questions about the Office of Congressional Conduct and information about misconduct allegations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/14\/congress\/occ-house-ethics-watchdog-q1-report-misconduct-allegations-00348842\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report shows the House&#8217;s ethics watchdog received thousands of messages from the public during the first three months of 2025 &mdash; while it was prohibited from opening any investigations. Those 4,131 communications included questions about the Office of Congressional Conduct and information about misconduct allegations&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}