Month: June 2010

Earmarks, pay to play, and Rep. Visclosky again in the news

The Washington Times summarizes the Office of Congressional Ethics’ information on Rep. Visclosky in this article this morning. Defense contractors who openly discussed a suspected pay-to-play scheme in e-mails released by congressional ethics investigators had ties to a powerful lobbying firm and won millions of dollars in federal earmarks after contributing to the campaign of […]