It's available here. Looks mostly like it concerns omissions from Stevens' personal financial disclosure forms, though the big ticket item is Stevens' help for Veco Corporation allegedly in exchange for gifts. When Sunlight released our Fortune 535 project on the personal financial disclosures, we said, "...take what follows with a boulder-sized grain of salt: It's all based on information from the seriously flawed disclosure system used by members of Congress."
One question I have: A lot of the alleged malfeasance revolves around a Stevens personal residence, the Girdwood residence or, as Stevens called it, "the chalet." Obviously accepting ...
Continue readingTCS makes Milcon letters available
Last Friday, Taxpayers for Common Sense updates us on where the House is on the Appropriations process (a few weeks back the process could best be described as "nyah nyah nyah," and "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you,", to use the parliamentary terms favored by most members of Congress).
In that update, they posted a link to their downloadable database of earmarks from the House version of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill, they've also put the request letters online.
(This is what happens when you ...
Continue readingOne More Thing on Stevens
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Continue readingTed Stevens Indicted (Updated)
It’s not an investigation, it’s a series of charges. Huge story. Longest serving Republican senator Ted Stevens indicted on seven... View Article
Continue readingYou Spin Me Right Round
Congress doesn’t spin records, they spin in revolving doors. And those doors are spinning faster than ever, according to a... View Article
Continue readingCountdown to Reform Mandate
On Friday, August 1, 2008, the Clerk of the House must launch a public database on the Clerk’s web site... View Article
Continue readingLocal Sunlight
Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
Continue readingNonprofit Channels of Influence
Last week, in a post about the tobacco industry’s influence in the Congressional Black Caucus I noted the $50,000 contribution... View Article
Continue readingMuck Over Menthol
The New York Times printed a really interesting story today about the coziness between the Congressional Black Caucus and the... View Article
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