In a letter sent today, Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer called on House Speaker-designee John Boehner (R-OH) to support continuing the Office of Congressional Ethics in the new Congress with its authority and powers intact.The letter also calls on Speaker-designee Boehner to oppose any effort to weaken the House ethics rules adopted in 2007 in […]
Below are excerpts from dozens of examples of the nationwide editorial support that exists for campaign finance disclosure and the DISCLOSE Act. During the recently concluded national elections, well over a hundred million dollars in secret contributions was spent by outside groups to influence congressional races. For the first time in nearly forty years huge […]
We have just come through an election where huge amounts of secret contributions were spent in the congressional races. We cannot go through another national election with this sure-fire formula for influence-buying corruption. Our organizations are calling on the Senate to schedule and pass the disclosure provisions of the DISCLOSE Act. There is no question […]
On Thursday November 18, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. a coalition of reform groups will hold a press conference at the Capitol to discuss the effort to pass a stripped-down version of the DISCLOSE Act focusing solely on the disclosure provisions of the bill. Such a bill would take away the issues raised by critics of […]
According to an AP story by Larry Margasak, the findings today by a panel of the House Ethics Committee that Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) committed multiple ethics violations included a finding that Representative Rangel had solicited donors for a New York college center named after him with interests before the Ways and Means Committee, leaving […]
The Washington PostA lame and spineless duck?By E.J. Dionne Jr.November 15, 2010 The lame-duck session of Congress that kicks off this week will test whether Democrats have spines made of Play-Doh and whether President Obama has decided to pretend that capitulation is conciliation. Congress faces an enormous amount of unfinished business, largely because of successful […]
The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United eliminated one of the nation’s principal laws to protect against government corruption and opened the door to campaign finance scandals which began to play out in the 2010 congressional races. As a result of the decision, one of the worst in Supreme Court history, this is the first election in […]
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