WASHINGTON – FEBRUARY 16: Senator Barak Obama (D-IL) holds a press conferece February 16, 2006 at his office on Captiol Hill in Washington, DC. Sen. Obama discussed legislation he has introduced to create a congressional ethics enforcement commission to receive complaints from the public on alleged ethics violations by members of Congress, staff, and lobbyists. The legislation is modeled off of a similar commission created in Kentucky in the wake of a series of ethics scandals. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
