Month: February 2009

Freddie Mac PAC: Terminated

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 14, 2009
Categories In FEC

Freddie Mac’s PAC terminated its activities, according to Federal Election Commission data. I guess the PAC wasn’t “too big to fail.”

Neighborhood Stabilization, $2 billion, (a/k/a ACORN Stimulus?)

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 13, 2009
Categories In Voting

Could this be the controversial “neighborhood stabilization” funds ($2 billion) that might make their way to ACORN? The following is on page 86 of the “Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference” (emphasis added): The conference agreement provides $3,000,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 is appropriated for the Community Development Block Grant program and $2,000,000,000 is […]

Alabama Reforms

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 13, 2009
Categories In Alabama

This report describes a few reforms making their way through Alabama’s legislature, including a PAC to PAC transfer ban and a disclaimer rule.