The WSJ examines Major League Baseball’s practice of offering lawmakers and officials a chance to buy hard-to-get game tickets. The league has sold about 75 World Series tickets to a total of 15 lawmakers or aides in the past week, according to Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball. Mr. Courtney declined to identify […]
Category: Senate
Donors as ambassadors, Gerald Walpin, and nomination news
The Washington Times reports that Alan Solomont’s nomination to be Ambassador to Spain has been delayed because of questions reagrding his role in the firing of Corporation for National and Community Service Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Republican Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a leading whistleblower advocate who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has […]
Congress policing itself
The Times reports on ethics scandals in Congress. Leo Wise, a former federal public integrity prosecutor who is now the director of the House ethics office, said in an interview that House leaders had given his office the resources it needed, with a budget of $1.5 million and seven full-time staff members, and that “over […]