This Times editorial mentions Sen. Inouye’s contact with a bank. Not just any bank. The Senator owns hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in the bank. After the call, the bank got $135 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, according to the editorial. Like so much of the recession challenge, lawmakers’ lobbying for […]
Category: Senate
Congressional Travel Under the Microscope
The WSJ examines a recent increase in Congressional travel. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats […]
Senator Al Franken
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in the case between Al Franken and Norm Coleman and Coleman conceded the race yesterday. The Democrats now have their largest majority in the Senate since 1978, but their ability to prevent filibusters as they attempt to push President Obama’s agenda is likely to prove illusory. A pair of prominent […]