Republican lawmakers in the United States Congress have suspended plans to weaken an office that investigates possible ethics violations. At a closed-door meeting Monday night, Republican members of the House of Representatives had voted 119 to 74 to approve the proposal. The vote came hours before all House members were sworn-in to two-year terms in the new Congress. The change would have put the Office of Congressional Ethics under the House Ethics Committee, which is controlled by lawmakers. In the 2016 election, Republicans kept control of both the House and Senate. The measure, proposed by Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte, was added to a larger number of rules for Congress. But it was later dropped. The Office of Congressional Ethics was created as a non-partisan, independent group in 2008. It came about after several corruption cases involving members of the House.