Living right next to Jean Schmidt’s district, I have followed her congressional career rather closely, which brought me to a conclusion a few years ago. Schmidt appears to be the type that thinks she can do anything she wants and not be held accountable for it. She is by far one of the more “rogue” […]
That’s what The Office of Congressional Ethics is looking into: The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating eight lawmakers who held fundraisers within 48 hours of a major House vote on a Wall Street reform bill or received substantial donations from business people with a financial stake in the bill, according to congressional sources and […]
One of the key reasons for the Democrats victory this past year was attributed to the ethic problems in Washington. Even Bush admitted that. Now the Senate Republicans do not want to fix the ethic problems: Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists’ influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let […]