Month: July 2009

Sarah Palin’s Tweet

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 4, 2009
Categories In Alaska

Gov. Sarah Palin announced she was leaving office at the end of July. Her pre-announcement tweet is here.

Congressional Travel Under the Microscope

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 3, 2009
Categories In House, Senate

The WSJ examines a recent increase in Congressional travel. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats […]

Federal Election Commission Update

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 3, 2009
Categories In FEC

The Post reports that two senators are blocking the nomination of SEIU lawyer John Sullivan to a position on the Federal Election Commission.