The Office of Congressional Ethics has released a new report regarding its activities. USAT covers the news here and The Hill covers it here.
Month: January 2010
Photos from today’s Brookings Institution event
I’m happy to share some of the photos I took today at The Brookings Institution. A Campaign Finance Institute/American Enterprise Institute/Brookings working group released a new report today, “Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns: How to foster citizen participation through small donors and volunteers.” More on the discussion and report later.
Citizens United, corporate personhood, and the South Valley
The Gilroy Dispatch reports on the South Valley’s connection to Citizens United in this article today. How does Citizens United link to the South Valley? To answer that question, let’s go back to the year 1886 and consider another Supreme Court case, a relatively minor one. Let me introduce you to Santa Clara County v. […]