The Times profiles White House Bob Bauer this morning. Advocates of campaign finance reform have not always been big fans of Mr. Bauer, who took a dim view of the 2002 McCain-Feingold Law, which barred political parties from receiving unregulated “soft money” contributions. But once the law passed, colleagues say, Mr. Bauer quickly found a […]
Category: Executive Branch
Norm Eisen’s Friday dump
Two blog posts on the White House ethics front today. The first notes that another set of data of White House visitor information was released today. As I noted earlier, some of the data seems to mask who visitors are actually visiting. The second post involves an ethics waiver for General James Jones. (No, not […]
President Obama supports The DISCLOSE Act
President Obama released this statement today in support of The DISCLOSE Act. “I welcome the introduction of this strong bi-partisan legislation to control the flood of special interest money into America’s elections. Powerful special interests and their lobbyists should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people. Yet they work ceaselessly […]