REP. RIVERA IN THE NEWS. Roll Call. “The FBI and IRS are investigating Rep. David Rivera over payments that a casino company may have made to a company owned by the Florida Republican’s mother, the Miami Herald reported Thursday.” LOBBYING AND THE BOTTOM LINE. Roll Call. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION? Here’s a […]
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Thursday’s political law links
WATERS DEVELOPMENTS. Roll Call. “Plagued by infighting, allegations of improprieties and the collapse of its investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters, the Ethics Committee on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of hiring an outside counsel to review the panel’s operations and decide whether the probe of the California Democrat can move forward.” CHAMBER LOBBYING. Roll Call. […]
Feignfold fighting, tax-exempt status denials, Waters news, and more political law links
FEINGOLD FIGHTING. Roll Call. “‘Almost nothing of our election laws is still standing,’ said Feingold, who now heads the political action committee Progressives United. The PAC’s mission is to counter and eventually reverse the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which overturned the long-standing ban on corporate and union spending for […]