The Huffington Post posted Bert Gall’s piece on Citizens United, including a draft of the President’s 2022 State of the Union launch of the Media Reform Act. One wonders if these papers’ editorial boards have asked themselves: What might the future have held, for the media and everyone else, if Citizens United had been decided […]
Day: March 6, 2010
Massa resignation follow-up
The Post has the latest on Rep. Massa’s decision to resign on Monday. Congressional Democrats reclaimed control of Congress in 2006 by pledging to “drain the swamp” after Republican ethics scandals rocked Capitol Hill. Now, a series of controversies involving Democratic members has robbed the party of its claim to hold the higher moral ground […]
PMA Group ethics report stories
The Post has a story based on some of the documents in the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into the PMA Group’s activities. Lobbyists and corporate officials talked bluntly in e-mail exchanges about connections between making generous campaign donations and securing federal funds through members of an important House Appropriations subcommittee, according to not-yet-public documents reviewed […]