Vice President Biden said Tuesday that Republicans did the right thing by removing a provision from proposed House Rules that would have gutted the Office of Congressional Ethics and placed it under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee.

“Wise judgment voting against doing that,” Biden said after swearing in senators on the first day of Congress’s return. “It would be a very, very bad thing to do. A very bad thing to do. The one thing people want is from all of us … is transparency.”