Even after the collapse of the financial industry and the subsequent bailout, firms injected with government money still found time... View Article
Continue readingNew Senate Stimulus Bill: Recovery.gov Out?
The Senate has just posted the new version of the stimulus bill (Amendment 98 to HR 1), weighing in at... View Article
Continue readingOn the 5-Day Bill Posting Pledge
Last week, we discovered that President Obama had signed his first bill without fulfilling a pledge to post all non-emergency... View Article
Continue readingSen. Dodd Releases Report on V.I.P. Mortgage
After coming under fire last year for receiving “V.I.P.” rate mortgages from Countrywide Financial on his two homes, Sen. Chris... View Article
Continue readingBailout Recipients Lobbying
From October 1, 2008 through the end of the year, eighteen companies that had received, or would receive, bailout funds... View Article
Continue readingCongressional Lobbying Databases Updated
The Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate have updated their Lobbying Disclosure Act databases. (This may... View Article
Continue readingLobbying With My Money
There are so many “fool me once…” moments with the ongoing bailout of the financial industry. One that is particularly... View Article
Continue readingSen.-Designee Gillibrand’s Transparency Record
Today, New York Governor David Paterson appointed Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Gillibrand has, from day... View Article
Continue readingPresidential Library Reform bill…
...is one of the first bills introduced In the House. If passed, it would require quarterly reports on donors to presidential libraries.
Items like this and this demonstrate why this is useful.
Which reminds me -- how is the Clinton Foundation going to handle new donations? Will they periodically add to what they've already disclosed? And will the Bush Presidential Library Foundation release the names of any donors at all? Nope.
Continue readingPresidential Library Disclosure
Maybe I’m tilting at windmills here, but I think that the fact that one of the first pieces of legislation... View Article
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