This Times editorial supports the Office of Congressional Ethics’s unprecedented move to refer a matter to the Department of Justice, among other things. Even more encouraging is the office’s investigation into whether members of the House Appropriations Committee custom tailored defense contracts worth hundreds of millions in return for generous campaign contributions. True to form, […]
Category: House
Office of Congressional Ethics in new controversy
The Office of Congressional Ethics is in a new controversy sparked by twenty members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Twenty members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including its chairwoman, are asking the House to severely restrict the powers of an independent ethics office that has spent much of its first full year investigating accusations of […]
The DISCLOSE Act and Lindsay Lohan?
Yes, in a new Roll Call article this morning. “The DISCLOSE Act is designed to shed sunlight and increase transparency on those entities spending money on our elections. This is an objective that the vast majority of Americans and this Congress supports,” spokesman [Van Hollen spokesman] Doug Thornell said in a statement. “This well oiled […]