The Iowa House Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint against an officeholder involving alleged conflict of interest, according to this Radio Iowa report. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement argued Representative Dolores Mertz, a Democrat from Ottosen, should not be chair of the House Ag Committee because her sons run hog confinements and they pay rent to […]
Month: March 2009
Office of Congressional Ethics
If the Office of Congressional Ethics has a website, I sure haven’t been able to find it. If you know it, let me know at eric[at]politicalactivitylaw.com.
“Tougher Political Corruption Law”
The Times endorses a “tougher political corruption law” in this editorial. The goal of the Senate bill from Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, and John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, is to have sharper eyes follow the public money. Even with the Abramoff scandal, corruption prosecutions fell an estimated 14 percent during the Bush administration. The […]