The Post discusses the ethical considerations of House Ethics investigations. Members of the House ethics committee, who are investigating a pattern of lawmakers steering federal funds to generous defense contractors, have just had their own pet military projects approved by … Continue reading
In the Citizens United case, supporting briefs are trickling in and appear to be collected here for your reading pleasure.
Today’s hearing on public financing featured a number of interesting panelists. The testimony and video are already online at the House Administration Committee’s website. I posted a number of photographs I took on Flickr, including this one of Speaker of … Continue reading
A complaint was filed against RI AG Patrick Lynch involving state campaign finance law’s treatment of petty cash. The complaint filed with the state Board of Election accused the Lynch campaign of spending more than $9,000 on items recorded as … Continue reading
The Active Ballot Club of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union settled a case with Massachusetts’ Office of Campaign and Political Finance involving allegedly impermissible contributions, according to this report.