The Huffington Post reports that House Democrats are putting together a task force to work on legislation in reaction to Citizens United. The rump group pulls together all the relevant committee chairmen and selected members of those panels. Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told HuffPost Wednesday he’s working with the group and plans […]
Category: House
What’s next for campaign finance reform? Two important hearings today give hints for what’s next (with photos)
The House Judiciary Committee and the House Administration Committee held hearings today on Citizens United and potential areas for reform. My photos are below. There are sure to be a lot of new avenues for reform and research arising from these hearings and the thoughtful testimony of the impressive witnesses. Although time was short and […]
Rep. Buyer to retire
Rep. Buyer will retire from Congress, according to this report. The report references an ethics allegation involving a charity. Questions were first raised in August about the way the Congressman ran his nonprofit Frontier Foundation, which operated out of his campaign offices in Monticello, Ind. Buyer later made structural changes to the organization and moved […]