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Don’t lean on me
Mother Jones by Leigh Ferrara 03/06/07 Last spring, an amendment was slipped into a bill reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act by Senator Arlen Specter’s chief counsel, Michael O’Neill, who was reportedly acting... ...
rudkla - 7. Mär, 15:47
Open season on speculators
Hawaii Reporter by Lowell L. Kalapa 03/05/07 Here we go again, lawmakers are blaming speculators for overheating the real estate market. These are the same people lawmakers pointed the finger of blame... ...
rudkla - 6. Mär, 15:36
Fired US attorneys to testify on performance
International Herald Tribune [France] 03/06/07 Six former U.S. attorneys said they got little or no information about why they were fired, as another Republican lawmaker reportedly acknowledged contacting... ...
rudkla - 6. Mär, 15:20
Lawmakers Squabble Over Anti-Terrorism Bill
Senators left town Friday with little to show for a week of debate on a massive anti-terrorism bill and squabbling over whether to let federal airport screeners join unions and risk a veto of a Homeland... ...
rudkla - 4. Mär, 22:48
GOP Lawmakers Tried to Influence Federal Investigation
Senator Pete Domenici and Representative Heather Wilson of New Mexico pressured the US attorney in their state to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former... ...
rudkla - 2. Mär, 22:40
Candidates who shun corporate cash are winning
AlterNet by Jim Hightower 02/26/07 It’s instructive that only hours after changing the House rules last month to stop lobbyists from doling out certain freebies to lawmakers, Democrats celebrated. How?... ...
rudkla - 1. Mär, 16:45
Texas Governor Perry took Merck money before mandating cervical vaccine
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that it's just a coincidence that he and eight other lawmakers received donations of $5,000 each from Merck lobbyists just a few days before mandating the drug giant's HPV... ...
rudkla - 23. Feb, 09:05
Vermont Becomes First State to Call for US Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
The Vermont State Legislature made headlines yesterday when lawmakers passed resolutions in both the House and Senate calling for the immediate and orderly withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. http://www.democrac ynow.org/article.pl?sid=07 /02/14/1646233 From... ...
rudkla - 16. Feb, 13:03
Congress Accuses White House of Homeland Security "On the Cheap"
A House committee chairman accused the Bush administration Friday of protecting the country from terrorism "on the cheap" as lawmakers complained to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about proposed... ...
rudkla - 11. Feb, 22:13
Democracy for sale: Congress Finds Ways to Avoid Lobbyist Limits
In just the last two months, lawmakers invited lobbyists to help pay for a catalog of outings: lavish birthday parties in a lawmaker’s honor ($1,000 a lobbyist), martinis and margaritas at Washington restaurants... ...
rudkla - 11. Feb, 09:10
