U.S. PIRG’s Lisa Gilbert endorses the DISCLOSE Act and the Shareholder Protection Act in this Huffington Post editorial. She notes Target’s $150,000 to a group supporting Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer (see my separate post tonight on developments related to that story). UPDATE: 8/6/10: This Times editorial endorses a public financing proposal recently introduced.
Category: House
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 […]
Profile of House Ethics Committee’s Rep. Zoe Lofgren
The Times profiles Rep. Zoe Lofgren today. Now she is immersed in another ethics confrontation — this time as chairwoman of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, which could soon be conducting two public trials of lawmakers accused of improper conduct, Representatives Charles B. Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California, both Democrats.