Category: House

Super PACs, state and local ethics case developments, and more political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 7, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, DC, FARA, FEC, Florida, House, Illinois, LDA, Maryland, Washington

LDA ENFORCEMENT ALERT. I couldn’t make COGEL this year, but there’s a report that Ken Gross announced that DOJ made him aware of a $45,000 DOJ settlement with an unnamed lobbying firm, the first in years in this area. Stay tuned. SUPER PAC PUSH. Politico. “The top two Democrats in the Senate, Harry Reid and […]

Reverserobocall.com, texting campaign money in MD, public financing vote, and more political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 5, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, DC, FEC, House, Illinois, IRS, LDA, Maryland, North Carolina

RICHARDSON INVESTIGATION. The Times. “Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico who ran for president in 2008, is being investigated by a federal grand jury for possible violations of campaign finance laws, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry.” HELP FOR HUNTSMAN, FROM A HUNTSMAN. The Times. “The group, financed in part by […]

Public financing and EAC termination, STOCK Act views, Waters ethics, and more political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 1, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, House, Meta, New York City

CONGRESS WATCH’S LISA GILBERT ON STOCK ACT. Here. “This issue is not a partisan one, but one of ethics, and so it seems likely that the bill will continue to garner the momentum it needs to become law. Hopefully more members will join in this bipartisan effort to apply the insider trading laws uniformly across […]