Al Franken had his first amendment pass the Senate since being sworn in, and it is a good one: On Tuesday night, the Minnesota Democrat got his first piece of legislation passed by the United States Senate via roll call vote. The amendment stopped federal funding for those defense contractors who used mandatory arbitration clauses […]
(updated and bumped) The Muckraker has uncovered a gem from the DOJ document dump: Four months after the San Diego United States Attorney’s office launched an investigation into whether he had accepted bribes from defense contractors, and little more than a month before he pled guilty to those charges, Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) signed on […]
Don’t everyone wish their business ran this way – “no matter how bad you do, you still get paid top dollar”. Well if you work for the government then that is exactly how it goes: In late February 2004, the Army announced that it was canceling plans to build a radar-evading helicopter called the Comanche, […]