In response to an inquiry made by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif, the FEC opines that candidates can contribute personal and campaign funds to foreign elections.
Continue readingRep. Waters inquires with FEC about contributing to Haiti elections
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., wrote to the House Ethics Committee and Federal Election Commission asking if she could contribute to foreign candidates running for office, both individually and through her affiliated political action committees.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: A comparison to Hitler, a deleted press release and an outgoing Gov learns Git
This week's roundup of deletions archived by Politwoops includes a long delayed deletion about Hitler, a revoked press release and more.
Continue readingStrengthen the House Ethics Process
The House Ethics Committee has retained outside counsel to assist it with its inquiry into Representative Maxine Waters, according to... View Article
Continue readingIndependent ethics office likely to survive
The Washington Post reports that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), the only independent ethics body in Congress, is likely... View Article
Continue readingEthics broadens Waters probe to examine communications with key committee
The House Ethics Committee is said to have broadened its inquiry into Rep. Maxine Waters by examining whether the Financial Services Committee fully complied with requests to turn over documents. Waters was scheduled to go on trial last month for inappropriately using her position in Congress to aid a bank that her husband had an ownership stake in in receiving money from the government bank bailout fund. That trial was delayed due to the revelation of a new e-mail that could be used as corroborating evidence. The revelation of that e-mail has led to broader questions of whether there is other evidence being withheld. The Washington Post reports:
Four officials, congressional staff members, and others familiar with the probe confirmed on Thursday that her trial was postponed two weeks ago in part to explore the delay in not turning over that e-mail and to examine whether other evidence was withheld. Continue reading
Ethics trials to be held after midterms
The ethics trials of high profile Democrats Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters will be held after the November midterm elections.... View Article
Continue readingPoliticians play politics, even in the ethics process
“Now is not the time to play politics simply because an election is looming in a few weeks,” Sen. Susan... View Article
Continue readingHas Maxine Waters found a way around the Federal Election Campaign Act?
My colleague Lindsay Young reports on what appears to be a unique fundraising strategy employed by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.... View Article
Continue readingMaxine Waters exploits FEC rules to raise big bucks from California politicians
Longtime Democratic lawmaker Maxine Waters has perfected an unusual tactic for fundraising over the years – getting candidates, including some of California’s most prominent political figures, running for state and local offices, to pay as much as $45,000 for her endorsement on election mailers. In this election cycle alone, Waters has raised 59 percent of her campaign’s treasury through these “slate mailers.”
The Los Angeles-area representative, who faces ethics charges in the House for intervening on behalf of a bank in which her husband had invested heavily, has found a way to take large sums of money from ...
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