Air Force official Mark O’Hair pleaded guilty in connection with a program that received an earmark through Rep. Murtha, according to this Roll Call story. According to the plea agreement, filed in a federal court in Florida, in May 2005, “Congress passed a tsunami relief act which included within the provisions of the act an […]
Day: July 20, 2009
American International Group Lobbying
Roll Call reports that American International Group does not plan on any additional lobbying this year. Insurance giant American International Group continued to spend money in Washington, although the company says it wasn’t engaged in federal lobbying and plans no more filings this year. AIG reported spending $950,000 during the second quarter of 2009, according […]
Public Financing Issues
Visiting Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission David Mason wrote this article for the latest edition of The Federalist Society’s Engage. In an era of broad-based Internet fundraising, public financing begins to look like a cure in search of a disease. Even worse, the super-subsidies required to […]