The Brookings Institution will be hosting a panel discussion featuring Sarah Binder, Thomas Mann, and Norm Ornstein today. Brookings Senior Fellows Sarah Binder and Thomas E. Mann, with American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Norman Ornstein, will examine the 110th Congress’s legislative activity, achievements and process, with particular attention to its responses to the financial and […]
Category: House
House Ethics Clarifies Mortgage Point
The House Ethics Committee issued a “pink sheet” on the disclosure of mortgages. Apparently, there was some confusion created by the latest edition of the House Ethics Manual.
Rep. Rangel and AIG
Rep. Rangel’s involvement with AIG is the topic of this Times article. Federal statutes and House ethics rules forbid members of Congress from asking for anything of value from a person or company with business before them. [Ways and Means Committee counsel Janice] Mays said those rules did not prohibit members of Congress from raising […]