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epa05696857 Republican Representative from Utah and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Jason Chaffetz, writes a text to an unidentified person that reads 'Our first move on ethics could not have been more poorly executed', before members of Congress are sworn in for the 115th session of Congress on the House floor of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 03 January 2017. Prior to the first meeting of the current session, lawmakers in the House of Representatives attempted to weaken the Independent Office of Congressional Ethics, and were persuaded to abandon their efforts during their first meeting after the move gained the ire of the public and earned a rebuke from President-elect Donald Trump. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS