Boehner Recommends Creation Of Ethics Task Force

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) recommended Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to create a bipartisan ethics task force to repair what he deems "confusing" new House rules.

"Members on both sides of the aisle are understandably frustrated because they know you can't 'clean up Congress' with confusing rules that are as difficult to comply with as they are to enforce," Boehner wrote in a letter to Pelosi Thursday.

Boehner asks Pelosi to create a bipartisan group of lawmakers to analyze the current rules and recommend "fair, sensible and understandable revisions that working group members believe would improve both compliance and enforcement."

The task force should be comprised of six or eight members divided evenly between both parties, including a leader and a member from the ethics panel from both sides of the aisle, Boehner suggests.

Most of the rules in question involve what lawmakers can and can't accept in the way of gifts from lobbyists or other special interests.

To read the list of examples that Boehner cites in his letter to the Speaker, click on the link below.