News On 6 – by Dave DavisTULSA, Oklahoma – As the U.S. House Committee on Ethics continues to decide if it will take action against Congressman Markwayne Mullin, he talked with News On 6 about what this means for himself and his business Monday.
The congressman is at the center of what – even the House Committee on Ethics admitted – is the setting of a precedent. How involved can an owner be in his family business, while he’s serving in Congress?
Second District Congressman Markwayne Mullin told News On 6, he’s not doing anything wrong.
At the request of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the House Committee on Ethics reviewed Congressman Mullin and if he was still allowed to be involved in his business, Mullin Plumbing.
Under congressional ethics rules, representatives are limited on how much Outside Earned Income (OEI) a house member can make, which right now is $27,000 a year. OEI is money you get for “personal services actually rendered,” or work you actually do yourself.
News On 6 asked the congressman if he has gone over that limit.
“How do you limit what a business is worth, a business owner, a family business? How is it that Congress can limit what your time is worth? Truth is, I would do it for free,” said Congressman Markwayne Mullin.
Mullin and his wife have run Mullin Plumbing for 17 years, but when he was elected in 2012, he met with the Committee on Ethics to ask them what the rules were for family-business owners. They told him: ”
We’ve never had another member like you up here, that’s still actively involved in the company. So whatever we do, we’re going to have to set precedents with.”
Mullin said the committee gave him suggestions and he says he did those, plus hired a CEO for his company.
He said if this does turn into an investigation, Mullin says he will fight it.
“Absolutely, we’ll fight it. We’re doing nothing wrong. We have obviously doing this for a long time, your listeners know, the people of Oklahoma know, our companies have a very strong presence in Oklahoma. We’ve been doing this before we’re elected, so why can’t we continue to operate our companies?” said Congressman Markwayne Mullin.
Mullin said when his time in Congress is done, he plans to go back to the day-to-day running of Mullin Plumbing. He said he is not a “career politician.”
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics is scheduled to release an update Monday on its review.
Greetings Henry, been lisnin to you since rbn, have called in a couple times on liberty tree. I pick up a lot of crazy news here locally that’s not on any other msm. Would like to start/keep contributing here. Anyway to get a hattip on the stuff I send over that you post?
Sure. We have added you as a poster.
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Thank you sir.
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Thanks for the warm welcome y’all. Try to peek in here at least twice a day, have been for a year or so. Will try and comment more. Just tryin to stay afloat at this point, deeply embedded in the trenches albeit.
trying to keep a float is rather hard these days outlaw. Hang in there.
That is how many of us got to trust FTTWR by just sitting back for a while and just watching everything.
You know some of us then and our different personalities. 🙂 , yes we are a good bunch here – like Missy said and I always do too “we are like a big family here” 😉 and we are proud of The Trenches.
Good to have ya Outlaw welcome aboard.
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The people here have generously accepted me and are very patient (i haven’t been flamed yet 🙂 ). One of the great things about this site, is the people here, they deliver the most interesting and intelligent comments and cut through the BS in the many articles which is very enlightening. But if you have been reading here for a length of time, you already know that. 🙂 Welcome
Wonder how long it will be before the Goons working for The Evilist Bankers & Tavistock start knocking on Mullins door for their indoctrination of Govt Politics???
Keep up the info flow & the crusade to reclaim our Liberty, Freedom, Justice & Truth——-Oh, the chemtrails above Western Wash. ST. started at 7am & were still going at 7pm. They were from approx. 30K’ layered to 10K’ & hit all 8 points of the compass……The heaviest concentration I’ve seen in all the years I’ve known about this gruesome travisty…..