Category: Senate

Update on Ensign investigation

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 11, 2010
Categories In Senate

The Times has an update on the Sen. Ensign matter, along with new emails.

No Smith-McCain rematch, but interesting Senate hearing scheduled nonetheless

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 8, 2010
Categories In Senate

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, “We the People? Corporate Spending in American Elections after Citizens United.” (Dirksen 226 at 10 a.m.) Bradley A. Smith is scheduled to appear, but because Senator McCain isn’t on the committee we can’t expect a repetition of past unpleasantry between the two to mar the […]

Seals in the news

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 6, 2010
Categories In Senate

I’ve been using a lot of state seals lately to accompany posts on this site, so this story about seals caught my eye. A Republican fundraising invitation circulated last week includes a decorative seal that some say could be a violation of Senate ethics rules. The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s invitation to an “Armed Services […]