"Duke" Cunningham case: Was ANY action taken by the Congressional

The Duke Shames the Capitol
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It was federal prosecutors - and certainly not any Congressional ethics monitors - who followed the rent-a-lawmaker trail. As Congress mulls over the larger lessons of the Duke's demise, it should begin with the House's ethics process, which has been shamefully locked into immobility for the past year while scandals have arisen as predictably as the new moon. The Republican majority has already seen its leader, Tom DeLay, indicted. The influence-peddling schemes attributed to the lobbyist Jack Abramoff are said to be unraveling, with prosecutors reported to be focusing on the dealings of at least a half-dozen lawmakers in both houses.

Where is Congress's resolve to show the public that it can police itself? Something far better than passive denial was writ large in the first sentence of the Contract With America - the campaign tract that helped Republicans take power a decade ago - with its promise "to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives."
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