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So Congress may be getting a little cleaner with the ouster of Rangel as chair and Massa as representative. But real violations of public trust are still getting whitewashed by the Ethics Committee. Memo to the Ethics Committee: lobbyists are unlikely to "employ 'strong-armed' tactics" to try to link contributions to earmarks; their very livelihood depends on keeping up the pretence that there is no link between the gifts showered on Congressmen by corporations and the gifts showered on corporations by Congressmen.