The Post discusses the ethical considerations of House Ethics investigations. Members of the House ethics committee, who are investigating a pattern of lawmakers steering federal funds to generous defense contractors, have just had their own pet military projects approved by the same committee whose activities they are probing. . . . Jan Baran, a lawyer […]
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Congressional Hearing on Public Financing
Today’s hearing on public financing featured a number of interesting panelists. The testimony and video are already online at the House Administration Committee’s website. I posted a number of photographs I took on Flickr, including this one of Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Hannah Pingree and Common Cause’s Arn Pearson.
Office of Congressional Ethics Investigates?
The LA Times reports that a home owned by Rep. Laura Richardson is potentially the topic of an Office of Congressional Ethics investigation. The Office of Congressional Ethics contacted real estate investor James York, who bought Richardson’s house at a foreclosure auction last year, only to have Washington Mutual take it back after he had […]