The Hill reports on some concern over the pace of House Ethics Committee investigations. House lawmakers implicated in a secret ethics panel document are pressuring the committee to conclude their cases as quickly as possible.
Category: House
Focus on Congressional travel rules
This morning’s Times highlights how Congressional travel rules work. Despite changes intended to curb Congressional junkets, some lawmakers and even their families continue to take trips hosted by private groups and companies that revel in their access to Washington power brokers. . . . The rules are filled with odd contradictions. Lobbyists themselves are not […]
Rep. Thompson and the timing of political contributions
This Hill story involves Rep. Thompson, a hearing on credit card lesgislation, and political contributions. Former committee staff members also told the Post they suspected similar conflicts of interest motivated Thompson’s actions on other issues facing the committee. One staff member told the newspaper she had been fired for complaining about industry lobbyists, some of […]