I’ve updated yesterday’s post on the DISCLOSE Act here with some developments from last night.
Day: June 18, 2010
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The Office of Congressional Ethics and Rep. Price
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution discusses a fundraiser held the day before the vote on financial regulatory reform.
What Price and the seven other members of Congress now under investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics have in common is they all belong either to the House Financial Services Committee or other committees that were involved with drafting banking regulations.
All of them — five Republicans and three Democrats — also apparently held fund-raisers seeking contributions from financial industry interests just days before the vote.
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Do you know where the speaker of your state house is? Probably Maryland
The Post notes that the 2010 National Speakers Conference is holding its annual event in beautiful Maryland.And the bills for it will be paid by a few dozen local and national corporations, almost all of which have business before legislatures in Maryland and other states.