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The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.