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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 8, 2018 “If Members who supported the tax bill were really interested in balancing the budget, they never would have voted to unbalance the budget by $1.5 trillion.” The national news these days is dominated by Trump stories – the Russia Probe, Trump and his Administration’s ethics abuses, stories […]
The below piece is titled “Ethics Experts: The Problem With Jared Kushner In The White House,” by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, Norman Eisen, former chief White House ethics counsel to President Obama, and Virginia Canter, executive branch ethics counsel for CREW. The piece was published here in CNN Opinion on March 7, 2018. ————- […]
Enclosed for your information is an opinion piece entitled, “What Facebook, Google and Twitter Owe America,” by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen, former chief ethics counsel to President Obama. The piece was published in Politico on February 28, 2018. Find the full piece here or below. What Facebook, Google and Twitter Owe […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 1, 2018 “With extensive business holdings that he refused to divest, and with his obvious nepotism problems, Jared Kushner never should have been given a senior White House position in the first place.” It is time for White House advisor Jared Kushner to go. On April 26, 2017, Democracy […]
In a letter sent today (March 1, 2018) to members of Congress, 24 reform groups and watchdogs strongly urged members to oppose all campaign finance riders from being included in the final FY18 Omnibus Appropriations legislation. One potential rider would demolish the Johnson amendment, which prevents 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations from engaging in campaign activities. More […]
This piece was first published here in The Hill on February 14, 2018. ————————- Chairman Nunes, answer the question Fred Wertheimer | 02/14/18 In recent weeks House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has been asked a simple question by a member of the Intelligence Committee and by the media: Did members of his staff work […]
Enclosed for your information is an opinion piece entitled “Trump, Ryan and McConnell, stop ignoring your oaths,” by Fred Wertheimer, Democracy 21 President, and Norman Eisen, President Obama’s “Ethics Czar” from 2009-2011. This piece was published on CNN Opinion on February 22, 2018. According to the piece: It’s long past time for Trump, Ryan and […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | FEBRUARY 22, 2018 “By spelling out in stunning detail how the Russians carried out their attacks on our elections, the Mueller indictment has opened the door to our government responding.” The indictment brought last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Russian individuals and entities for intervening in the 2016 […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | FEBRUARY 15, 2018 “It is a national disgrace that Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress have taken no action to prevent Russia from sabotaging U.S. elections.” The heads of the nation’s intelligence agencies agreed in Senate testimony this week that “Russia is continuing efforts to disrupt the U.S. political system and […]
In a letter sent today to House Speaker Paul Ryan, fourteen reform groups and watchdogs expressed their deep concern about Ryan’s failure “to take any action to prevent Russia from interfering in our elections in 2018, as Russia plainly did in 2016.” The letter charged that Ryan has “failed to protect the nation’s security, the […]
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