Roll Call reports on a narrowing legislative window here. The Hill has a story with a similar theme. The Post gets in the story here.
Category: Senate
The push to DISCLOSE
Roll Call reports that Senate Democrats are hopeful that the DISCLOSE Act will move soon. An article on the same site deems the Senate a “legislative graveyard.”
Earmarks “hard to suppress”
The Times reports on how companies are dealing with congressional earmark policies. Adopted because of repeated scandals over wasteful spending — the bridges to nowhere and expensive pet projects like a water-taxi service — the ban was intended to help eliminate earmark abuses. Critics say spending on earmarks, which added $16 billion to the federal […]