Month: August 2010

The Office of Congressional Ethics in target

The Times writes that the Office of Congressional Ethics shouldn’t be scaled back. The Republican minority leader, John Boehner, said he wants to “take a look” at the office if his party regains majority power — a reminder that his members fiercely opposed the quasi-independent office when it was created two years ago by Speaker […]

No charges for Young

The Times reports on the status of the Department of Justice’s matter involving Rep. Don Young (Alaska). Don Young, Alaska’s sole representative in the House, said Wednesday that his lawyers had been informed by the Department of Justice that he would not be prosecuted after years of being investigated as part of a wide-ranging corruption […]