In response to House offices asking about how they can help in Haiti, the House Ethics Committee released this “Dear Colleague” letter yesterday.
Day: January 26, 2010
“Free speech for al-Qaida”
The Detroit Free-Press has this provocative cartoon and blog post today on Citizens United and the foreign national expenditure issue. The ramifications of this ruling are truly frightening. Nothing’s to stop some North Korean corporation from spending huge sums of cash to defeat a congressional candidate who advocates for a stronger US foreign policy stance […]
New York ethics reform may face veto
New York passed new ethics rules, but they may face a veto. LegislativeGazette.com has the story. Soon after the reform bill was passed last Wednesday, Gov. David A. Paterson, who previously called for sweeping ethics reform in his State of the State address, issued a statement that said the reform package was not strong enough […]