The Hill reports that lobbyists are organizing to defend earmarking. “A group of firms have been meeting to identify the best way to raise awareness of the very real value of earmarking, and to provide some balance to what has been, to date, a largely one-sided debate,” Bill Ferguson, CEO of the Ferguson Group, said […]
Month: May 2010
Senators against secret holds with… secret holds
The Hill has the latest on moves to reform secret holds in the Senate. Feingold is blocking the appointment of Federal Election Commission nominee John Sullivan out of concern that the commission’s two other vacancies are still unfilled, as well as a bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to crack down on gang violence. Feingold […]
Washington Times takes on Kagan’s free speech views
This Washington Times editorial discusses Elena Kagan’s views on the First Amendment. These government-favoring ideas on speech mirror a government-centric view of … well, of everything. In a footnote in that 1996 essay, Ms. Kagan wrote that restrictions on corporate speech were based “on the ground that corporate wealth derives from privileges bestowed on corporations […]