David Kocieniewski of the New York Times gets an answer from Rep. Charles B. Rangel's spokesman, Emile Milne, on the Ways and Means chairman's book deal:
The Sunlight Foundation report also noted that Mr. Rangel did not list any royalties or advances he may have received from his book And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since (MacMillan 2007). Mr. Milne said Mr. Rangel received no proceeds.
The omission of the book deal was not included in our count of missing information from Rangel's disclosures. Proceeds are money received through a sale or a loan. As ...
Continue readingSenate to Consider Feingold Earmark Amendment
Sen. Russ Feingold will offer an amendment to the stimulus bill today that would enact most of the earmark reforms... View Article
Continue readingWhat are you doing with the Stimulus?
Stimulus stimulus stimulus, all we're hearing about is the stimulus packages these days. Everyone in our field is figuring out different ways to parse bills, reports and other such things while we wait on Recovery.gov to launch. Whether it is Stimulus Watch, Read the Stimulus, or even Pew's Subsidy Scope (for which we are providing technical assistance), it seems like everybody is trying to parse and find data related to either bailouts or the stimulus packages.
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Continue readingNAPA Weighs In On Challenges Facing Administration
The National Academy of Public Administration, like many of us, is encouraged by the Obama administration’s promise to transform the... View Article
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Last week, Stephen Carter, the U.K. government’s minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, released an interim report on the state... View Article
Continue readingConnecticut’s Public Records Challenge (Update)
A little while ago I posted about Connecticut towns who took their Web sites down because they couldn’t comply with... View Article
Continue readingYet Another Bill Not Given the 5-Day Comment Period
Yet again, the President signed a bill without providing for the 5 day public comment period he has promised in... View Article
Continue readingEthics Panel to Clear Rangel?
House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel predicted, on C-SPAN's Newsmakers program that aired Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, that his multitude of ethics woes would soon disappear. "I think that next Tuesday you will see a break in this and as soon as the Ethics Committee organizes they ought to be able to dismiss this," National Journal's CongressDaily quoted the Rangel as saying.
If so, it's hard to imagine that the Select Committee on Ethics will have devoted anything more than a cursory glance at the various issues raised. Consider just one aspect, for which documents ...
Continue readingAnd the TARP Subsidy Keeps Growing. . .
Buried in prepared testimony by the director of the Congressional Budget Office on Jan. 28 are some eye-catching numbers that reflect... View Article
Continue readingHouse Judiciary Committee Updates Web Site
The new look web site for the House Judiciary Committee is looking pretty darn good. The site features a nicer... View Article
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