DeLAY’S FORMER AIDE ADMITS TAKING BRIBES: Lawmaker says he didn’t know of the wrongdoing in his office that led to a guilty plea (via The People’s Republic of Seabrook) WASHINGTON – A former top aide to U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay admitted Friday to accepting bribes while on the lawmaker’s staff and has joined the circle […]
From Reuters: The secretive U.S. government foreign investment review process that approved an Arab company’s deal to assume management of terminals at six U.S. ports is “deeply flawed” and should be revamped, a leading lawmaker said on Sunday. Senate Homeland Security Chairman Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said she and the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. […]
This is a great play by a Democrat here in the Buckeye State. Via 19-WXIX: Ban Republican adoptions, not gay adoptions, lawmaker says COLUMBUS, Ohio State Senator Robert Hagan says he has a better idea than barring gay couples from adopting children. The Democrat from Youngstown says he’d ban Republican adoptions. In a tongue-in-cheek memo […]
A little bit from the “Duke” files: A defense contractor admitted Friday that he paid a California congressman more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for millions more in government contracts. Mitchell Wade pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring with former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to bribe the lawmaker with cash, cars […]
This will be in tomorrows New York Times: Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Feb. 7  A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program. […]
Looks like trouble could be compounding for Bill Frist according to this article which appears today in the Washington Post: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has been subpoenaed to turn over personal records and documents as federal authorities step up a probe of his July sales of HCA Inc. stock, according to sources familiar […]