Here's how the story begins:

Virginia congressman behind ethics rollback attempt accused of conflict of interest over pipeline

U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, led a surprise effort this week to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), giving no advance notice about the proposed changes and allowing no debate on his measure before putting it up for a secret-ballot vote. The OCE was created in 2008 following corruption scandals resulting in prison sentences for three congressmen.

...and here's his own interest in abolishing any ethics:

This past fall, Goodlatte easily won re-election in Virginia's solidly Republican 6th Congressional District, an office he's held since 1993. During the race, Democratic challenger Kai Degner, a former city council member and mayor of Harrisonburg, pointed out that the Goodlatte family is heavily invested in a company that has an ownership interest in the proposed $3.2 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry natural gas from West Virginia to southern Virginia. The project is opposed by environmentalists as well as by property owners along the route who argue that a private company should not have the right to use eminent domain to gain access to their land.

Goodlatte's wife, attorney Maryellen Goodlatte, sits on the board of directors of RGC Resources, a subsidiary of which is a partner in the Mountain Valley Pipeline and holds about a $32 million stake in the project. In his latest personal financial disclosure filing, Goodlatte reported that his wife owns between $250,000 and $500,000 in the company's stock.

Goodlatte's campaign defended the congressman from the conflict-of-interest charges by emphasizing that the stock is owned by his wife and by noting that she served on the company's board before the pipeline was proposed. It also pointed out that Congress does not oversee the permitting process for pipelines or eminent domain decisions for pipeline routes. In addition, the proposed route for the pipeline does not directly pass through Virginia's 6th District.

That's all fair use will permit. Worth the read.