The Senate has decided to eliminate 100 advisors and reduce working commissions from 30 to 19. According to the Listin Diario, the Senate met at Casa de Campo in La Romana with experts from the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), who proposed the new internal measures. Among the new steps will be an internal tribunal to deal with ethical and disciplinary matters of the members. The elimination of so many advisory commissions will necessitate the creation of the Permanent Advisory Office for Economic, Financial, and Legislative Affairs for the National Congress (OPA), which will serve both houses of Congress. There are 32 senators in the Dominican Republic.