This morning’s Post discusses the House Ethics Committee’s recent report on the PMA Group and its treatment of the “walls” discovered between Members’ fundraising operations and official work. In detailing how the lawmakers approached their earmarking, however, the ethics report and accompanying reports by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) made clear that the wall […]
Month: March 2010
Lawmaker liability for lobbyist influence
Matt Bai discusses lobbying and lawmaking in this Times Magazine piece this morning. The truth is that anyone who spends any significant time in the political world knows that corporate money, raised and leveraged by lobbyists, is perverting any notion of good policymaking, as surely as ice dancing perverts the idea of sport. . . […]
Bert Gall’s draft of the 2022 State of the Union address
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 […]