The WSJ’s “Finance Rules Not Clear-Cut” actually cites a few FEC regulations and refers to an advisory opinion. In 1977, the Federal Election Commission sought to prevent politicians and others campaigning for them from getting free travel to political events on donors’ corporate planes or government flights. Thus, paragraph 106.3(b)(3) of Title 11 of the […]
This Hill article explains some of the concerns over S. 3123, a bill proposed by Senators Schumer and Obama to amend FARA. First, lobbyists would have to report any contacts they have with U.S. government officials outside of the country, such as ambassadors, on behalf of their foreign clients. Second, it would remove an exemption […]
1. Authorities “raided” Mayor Sheila Dixon’s office yesterday. The Baltimore Sun has the article. After spending more than seven hours inside, state prosecutors and police emerged from Dixon’s house — in Hunting Ridge, along the city’s western border with Baltimore County — carrying boxes, folders and a blue cooler they had brought in with them. […]
