Over two months ago, a special committee was created to offer recommendations on how to reduce the national deficit by... View Article
Continue readingHouse and Senate Committees should Stand Up for Transparency
By close of business tomorrow, all standing committees in the House and Senate must submit to the Super Committee their... View Article
Continue readingSuper Committee in the Shadows
Roll Call, and now Politico, have important stories about the super committee meeting in secret. It’s becoming clear that the... View Article
Continue readingSupport Continues to Mount for Super Committee Transparency
Yesterday, Representatives Loebsack, Quigley and Renacci sent a Dear Colleague to their colleagues asking them to cosponsor HR 2860, the... View Article
Continue readingSen. Kerry Speaks on Super Committee Influence
In his first extensive interview about his membership on the Super Committee—the super powerful deficit reduction committee charged with finding $1.5... View Article
Continue readingMore on Open Meetings for the Super Committee
A number of press reports suggest today that the Super Committee’s rules permit it to close meetings to the public.... View Article
Continue readingSuper Committee Transparency Update: Rules Adopted
The “Super Committee” has just finished its first organizational meeting, and we now know a little more about how it’s... View Article
Continue readingBipartisan Bill Would Expose Efforts to Influence Super Committee
Representatives Loebsack (D-IA), Quigley (D-IL) and Renacci (R-OH) introduced the Deficit Committee Transparency Act today, an important bill that would... View Article
Continue readingSuper Committee Will Hold Public Meetings
We’re enormously relieved to read that the Super Committee will hold public meetings: Both meetings are open to the public... View Article
Continue readingSuper committee member Upton creates joint fundraising committee
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., one of the members of the Joint Select Committee for Deficit Reduction, filed paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission to create a joint fundraising committee. Contributions collected by the committee will be split between Upton's campaign and leadership PAC.
The creation of a joint committee, the Upton Victory Committee, allows fundraising that benefits both Upton's political action committee, TRUST PAC (Team Republicans for Utilizing Sensible Tactics), which distributes thousands of dollars to Republican candidates, and his campaign, Upton for All of Us. FEC rules require that money given to the joint committee be ...
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