Category: Vermont

Good morning, here are Monday’s political law links, 4/15/13

ETHICS COMPLAINT FILED. The Hill. “A government watchdog group on Thursday filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the secretly taped strategy session that was leaked to the media this week.” STOCK ACT CHANGES. Politico. “Congress has quickly and quietly moved to considerably scale back financial disclosure requirements that were mandated by […]

Good morning, here are today’s political law links, 4/5/13

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE REGULATION. The Hill. “A new governmental study has found that efforts to curb the gathering and selling of political intelligence face tough challenges.” DONORS’ SCHEDULE DISCLOSED. CPI. “A handful of donors to the nonprofit Republican Governors Association Public Policy Committee got a rude surprise when the Internal Revenue Service mistakenly outed them by […]

Political law links, 3/20/13

ETHICS UPDATE. Politico. “The House Ethics Committee will launch full-scale investigations into two veteran lawmakers, Reps. Don Young (R-Alaska) and Rob Andrews (D-N.J.) in its first major probes of the 113th Congress.” FCC AND CELL ROBOCALLS. CNET. “The Federal Communications Commission has issued citations that accuse two companies of bombarding wireless customers with millions of […]