Mr. Shaub has emerged as one of Mr. Trump’s chief critics — and, unfortunately, as a center of attention. In a speech at the Brookings Institution last Wednesday, Mr. Shaub acknowledged this exemption. As Congress’s chief watchdog, with an open-ended charge to review all sorts of executive branch activity, Mr. Chaffetz should be raising questions about Mr. Trump’s ethics plan. His tune changed after Mr. Trump’s victory; he said Sunday he has no interest in a “fishing expedition” to assess Mr. Trump’s business entanglements. Mr. Shaub should stop picking fights with the president-elect, unless and until Congress gives him the clear responsibility to do so.

Source: Washington Post January 18, 2017 00:34 UTC