Category: Senate

Retirement Restrictions

Yesterday’s Post article on Thomas Daschle’s activities since leaving the Senate may be an opportunity to reflect on restrictions placed on former officeholders.  The disclosure of Daschle’s tax problems coincided with the release of the financial statement he submitted to the Office of Government Ethics, which details for the first time exactly how, without becoming […]

The Stevens Case

Judge Sullivan added one item to Attorney General Mukasey’s to-do list before cleaning out his desk, according to this report from BLT. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan this afternoon ordered Mukasey to prepare a declaration, with his signature, that addresses questions about how the government handled the whistleblower complaint filed last month in the Ted […]