House Republicans voted on Monday to hobble the Office of Congressional Ethics.
George Santos, facing multiple investigations and ethics complaints, called the changes "fantastic."
The Office of Congressional Ethics, first established in 2008, is a quasi-independent body tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct against members of Congress.
It then makes a determination as to whether those allegations are worth investigating further, at which point it makes a referral to the House Ethics Committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.
In 2017, House Republicans voted in conference to subsume the office under the House Ethics Committee, effectively neutering it.