Three makes a trend, right? Today, there are three news stories on presidential bundlers – campaign contributors who solicit money... View Article
Continue readingThe Wrecking Crew
Last Friday’s broadcast of the Bill Moyers Journal replayed and updated its Capital Crimes report, which gives a very good... View Article
Continue readingSaddle Road funding update
In this post and this post, we looked at an earmark Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, secured for the Saddle Road project on Big Island. I sent a query along to Dave Gedeon, the project manager for the Central Federal Lands Highway Division of the Federal Highway Administration, asking how the project was funded--whether these were military, Dept. of Transportation, or state funds, and which agency was managing the project. He was kind enough to respond and clarify:
Initial construction of Saddle Road began with the section that passes through the Department of the Army's Pohakuloa Training Area; funding for ...Continue reading
Pass S. 223
Today, the Sunlight Foundation launched a new web site, Pass223.com, to harness the distributed power of the Internet to pressure... View Article
Continue readingHouse Launches Personal Financial Disclosure Database
As required by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, the Clerk of the House launched an online database for... View Article
Continue readingTapping “Black Gold” Campaign Cash
Despite protestations from our favorite tweeting and qiking member of Congress, there does appear to be a relationship between supporting... View Article
Continue readingLegal Background on Stevens Case
Michael Stern at Point of Order, one of the better blogs for legal issues in Congress, covers the legal background... View Article
Continue readingA long winding partially underwater earmarked road?
Commenter Archie Mead points out something I didn't know about the discrepancy between Rep. Neil Abercrombie's description of an earmark and the description of what I believe is the same earmark in the House Appropriations Committee report:
Even with the name Abercrombie to connect the two entries, it's still very vague. Saddle Road, which connects the harbor to the inland Pohakuloa Training Area, location of war games for Iraq-bound troops and Stryker tanks, is located on the Big Island, while Schofield Barracks is located on Oahu, another island.
I doubt that Saddle Road will be running underwater ...
Continue readingLack of residential disclosure a problem for another member of Congress
Another reason why we need members of Congress to disclose information on their residences:
Rep. Robert Wexler is renting a home in his congressional district to quell criticism that his main residence is in the Washington suburbs.Wexler said in a statement Tuesday that he knew some constituents were concerned after he said last week he hadn't had a South Florida home in 11 years. Wexler, his wife and three children have a home in Potomac, Md. Wexler uses his in-laws' house in a Florida retirement community to meet residency requirements.
Not quite as dramatic as the Stevens case ...
Continue readingTwitter and Qik Cover Pro-Oil Drilling Protest in House
Ben Pershing at the Washington Post writes, “If a party stages a protest on the House floor but no one... View Article
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