It’s earmark season–the time of year when the House and Senate Appropriations Committees approve the major spending bills that fund... View Article
Continue readingOpen Book New York
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli‘s office launched Open Book New York, a new Web site that allows the public... View Article
Continue readingWho’s lobbying for Countrywide?
The Senate Office of Public Records database shows that one of the outside lobbying firms employed by Countrywide is Eris Group, formerly known as Bartlett, Bendall & Kadesh, LLC. Among the firm's lobbyists, (and they're currently lobbying on subprime mortgage bailout legislation) is Jennifer Bendall. The firm's Web site tells us that...
Bendall's Washington career began with the Wexler Group, a Washington, DC lobbying firm. During her time there, she took a leave of absence to return to her home state of Alabama, in order to work on the successful U.S. Senate campaign of then-Representative Richard ...Continue reading
Tweetalogue
This afternoon, Rep. John Culberson and I had a twitterfest (am I making up terms here?) about the need for... View Article
Continue readingCRP lists Countrywide’s big campaign cash recipients
The excellent post by Irene Kan, along with a list of all the members in the 110th Congress who've taken campaign cash from Countrywide's PAC, employees and their family members, is online here. Note that Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is number two on the list. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is tied for 23d place, by my count.
Continue readingGet the Capitol Words Widget
I love how our Labs takes a great idea and makes it even better. Yesterday we announced our latest project,... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Abram-Offed
How Alan Stayman got Abram-offed from his gig at State; Dodd and Conrad continue beating over Countrywide loans; jailing Arizona;... View Article
Continue readingThe Internet in Transition
Knowing that risks to free expression on the Internet exist and are growing, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT),... View Article
Continue readingSubprime 6, 60…well, at least 13…
Glenn Reynolds notes that the Politico reports that Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, called for a wider investigation than the one ongoing into the burgeoning Countrywide preferential loan scandal. Politico notes that, "no other Republican leader jumped on Hensarling's bandwagon Monday, and aides said they were reluctant to push forward with a probe because they didn't know what it might reveal," prompting Reynolds to write, "That's because it'll probably turn out to be more like the subprime sixty" (as opposed to the six figures currently implicated).
Sadly, personal financial disclosure forms do not require members to disclose ...
Continue readingDon Young’s A-Team
Murdock, Hannibal, Face, and B.A. Baracus? Not that A-Team. Josh Marshall got his hands on the “Intern’s Survival Guide” for... View Article
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