On a 67-30 vote, the Senate defeated a bipartisan proposal to create an office of public integrity, which its backers said was designed to strengthen enforcement of Senate rules and bolster voters' trust in Congress in the wake of the guilty plea in January of lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had killed a similar proposal March 2 after current and former members of the Senate's ethics committee called the office superfluous. The top Republican and the senior Democrat on the ethics panel led the successful effort to bury the proposal Tuesday for a second time.
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3649455
Senate, ethics - mutually exclusive concepts, apparently.
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