In his craven effort to secure the Speakership of the House, Republican California Congressman Kevin McCarthy has promised to essentially incapacitate the Office of Congressional Ethics by a series of restrictions and cuts put forth for the rules for the upcoming Congress, Time reports.

Republicans have always hated ethics in general, but their effort to remove all ethics violations on members of Congress came after a session when Republicans consistently came under fire for questionable behavior, only to pretend that transporting minors across state lines to have sex with them, like Florida’s Matt Gaetz is continuing to be investigated for, is perfectly acceptable, as is taking more than $20,000 from your campaign fund to pay past due business accounts for your failing restaurant like Lauren Boebert (Q-Colo.) allegedly did.

The office would also have significant impact on people like likely self-reported brain surgeon, Arctic explorer and Roman Catholic saint, Jew-ish Republican Congressman-elect George Santos, whose lies and embellishments about his career, education, sexual identity and religion have raised calls for Congress to refuse to seat him.

McCarthy’s plan would require the OCE to have all employees it need to be hired and on the job within 30 days of the start of the new Congress, a difficult prospect given that prospective employees cannot be hired until after the new Congress is seated.  Also, McCarthy’s proposal would not allow OCE to replace employees who leave after that 30 day period, meaning any staff openings–for retirements, resignations, deaths, etc.–would mandatorily remain unfilled until the end of the term.