Just in time for the holidays, the House Ethics Committee offers two important memoranda: Holiday Guidance on the Gift Rule and Simplified Process for Requesting Gift Rule Waivers for Gifts Anticipated due to Certain Special or Unusual Occasions.
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How will ethics issues play in the 2010 elections?
Politico surveys the ethics landscape ahead of the 2010 elections here. This wave of ethics problems for Capitol Hill Democrats makes GOP strategists optimistic that they can do to Democrats what was done to Republicans in 2006: paint a picture of a majority party corrupted by its own power.
Change advocated for travel rules
This Times editorial endorses changes to congressional travel rules. Ingenuity is never in short supply in Washington when it comes to challenges like circumventing the ban on lobbyist-financed Congressional junkets. . . . The loopholes and violations were laid bare in a study of 1,150 trips by The Times’s Eric Lipton and Eric Lichtblau. Representative […]