Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics), today announced that Blake Chisam would serve as committee staff director and chief counsel. Chisam assumes his new role on Friday. The position has been vacant since last summer. "I'm certain that Blake will bring the same professionalism and dedication to the committee that he has demonstrated through his career," Lofgren said. Currently, Chisam serves as counsel and senior policy advisor to Lofgren. In the previous session of Congress he worked as senior counsel at the House Judiciary Committee.
Last summer, the ethics panel suffered through a difficult period when then-Chairwoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, passed away unexpectedly. The committee finished the 110th Congress with an interim chair and an interim staff director.
-- Eliza Krigman
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