What is the American public's perception of congressional ethics? Is there a gap between perception and reality?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, State that in one national survey, only 20 percent of American rate the ethics of members of Congress as "high" or "very high."
2, Note that close observers of the legislative branch argue that in the past few decades, members of Congress have actually become more ethical and more upstanding than at any point in our nation's history.
3, Suggest that the gap between perception and reality may be due to the fact that there is much more reporting of ethical transgressions than in the past and the recent trend for aggressive investigative journalism.
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