meredith mcgehee: people who live in glass houses don't like to throw stones.hat's the truth on the house and the senate side. sharyl: meredith mcgehee is executive director of issue one, a nonprofit working to drain the washington swamp. that includes reforming how congress investigates misconduct within its own ranks. is it accurate to say that all in of the ethics bodies that oversee congress in some way are created by or beholden to congress? meredith: absolutely. in the people that sit on the ethics committees, one day they're judging whether or not their colleague has violated congressional ethics rules. the next day, they're probably going on the flo t convince them to vote for one of their amendments. so there's a built-in conflict of interest. you sharyl: mcgehee first testified as an expert on the subject twenty years ago. meredith: well, we have a proposal that we've been talking about for a number of years. sharyl: she was invited to testify again ten years ago. meredith: at the moment, the proposal is not significantly strong to really make a diffe