Several sources, including this one, report that the House Ethics Committee has found that Rep. Rangel violated House rules in connection with Caribbean trips. The House Ethics Committee website doesn’t show anything about the matter as of the time of … Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 25, 2010
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The bill would ban most committee-to-committee transfers of campaign donations, an attempt to reduce the “money laundering” that lawmakers have alleged goes on. Under the bill, political action committees could give only to candidates, instead … Continue reading
The Post has a fololw-up to a Peter Overby report I noted yesterday on R. Allen Stanford’s estate’s lawsuit to get political contributions returned. The lawsuit argues that since campaign contributions are essentially gifts — and were not given in … Continue reading