House Hesitates on Ethics Changes

This article describes how the Democratic majority in the House is hesitant to make changes to ethics enforcement in Congress even though they were pushing for it rather strongly months ago. Democrats used the term "culture of corruption" to describe the activities of the previous Republican-majority House, but are now hesitating to go forward with the idea of having an outiside entity monitor the activites of the House in addition to the House Ethics committee. This issue is a matter of trust and accountability between citizens and the respresentatives they put in office. I think that some U.S. citizens would be pleased with the idea of an outside entity monitoring the activities of their representatives to reduce corruption. A certain amount of trust goes along with being put in a Congressional position though. Can representatives do their jobs fully when they are worried about an outside entity monitoring them? In addition, what are the limits to this monitoring? I don't see the House going ahead with this idea.