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EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Military academies lack minority nominees largely because of the Leftist hatred of the military As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians. From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, lawmakers from heavily minority areas rank at or near the bottom in...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Representative Charles B. Rangel’s once-considerable clout has diminished, and signs of stress are starting to show.
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Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The games continue. Pelosi hawks her health-care bill as a reduction to the deficit. She got there by excluding deficit-increasing items such as the doc fix. However, when all the health-care related items are counted, the deficit increases. Here's the punchline, with the full letter at the end of this post: "CBO has therefore developed a rough outlook for the decade following the 10-year budget...
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CQ (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
House Ways and Means Committee Democrats support a one-year extension of current estate tax levels, a significant departure from plans laid out by House leaders and panel Chairman Charles B. Rangel.
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CBO's Latest 10 Documents (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Letter to the Honorable Charles B. Rangel
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Washington Post: After years of criticism that congressional lawmakers were reluctant to investigate their colleagues, the disclosure in recent days of a sensitive document from the House ethics committee offers the contradictory portrait of a panel actively pursuing a range of probes even as Democrats under scrutiny remain in positions of power. This Story Bad news for Democrats in revelation of ethics...
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Objective Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
We've been reading a great deal about ethics and we'd assert that the Democrat Party has real problems although there are certainly some Republican scumbags as well. We get a daily review of the most popular articles that our friends at the Washington Post publishes and were struck by the number of ethics articles in the top 10, eight. We thought we'd share those from yesterday with you below (You...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Yesterday, the Washington Post broke a blockbuster . A memo was leaked detailing all the current House Ethics Committee investigations. And guess what, most of them are Democrats. In fact, the only Republican mentioned in it was Sam Graves, who has been cleared by the Committee. So what did we learn? The Post says, regarding the inquiry of lawmakers tied to PMA, a now defunct lobbying shop, that “the...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
House ethics committee investigators have interviewed Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee whose personal finances have been under investigation for more than a year, a committee document from July reveals.
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CBO's Latest 10 Documents (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Letter to the Honorable Charles B. Rangel
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Remembrance in Spacetime (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Related Link » Rep. Pete Stark: ambition vs. a big mouth “‘McChrystal is one of the best killers in the world, as he proved in Iraq, but I don't think he knows squat about diplomacy,’ Stark says of the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. ‘I mean, if he didn't have a gun, he'd be useless.’” — ‘By Faye Fiore, October...
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Do you know what time it is'? It is HALF PAST SERIOUS O’CLOCK, right now and forever, on the HuffingtonPost.com. Yeah, you’re goddamn right someone embedded little countdown clocks that correspond to unpunished Congressional ethics violations somehow! “In the public interest, HuffPost is launching a congressional ethics clock to note the number of days (and [...] Sponsored Topics:...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and the chairs of the three committees leading the health reform effort, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Chair of the Comm...
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The Whig (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
NY Times: Congressional Ethics Inquiries Drag on, Despite Vows to End Corruption Despite calls two years ago from the House and Senate for tougher ethics policies, punishment for those who stray has been light. Two years ago, after a scandal that centered on the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the House created an independent ethics office as part of what Speaker Nancy Pelosi called an effort to...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Many donors are wary of giving money to Representative Charles B. Rangel, a former fund-raising powerhouse who has been hurt by a series of troubling revelations.
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