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Tom Crawford: Pick up the phone; we must hold elected officials accountable
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When Donald Trump was campaigning for president, he pledged he would “drain the swamp” in Washington and put an end to all the influence peddling that had infected the nation’s capital. He should have told his colleagues in Congress about his plans. The new year had barely gotten underway when GOP members of the House of Representatives voted secretly to do away with the Committee on Congressional Ethics.