PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Nanosys, Inc. today announced that it hosted US Representative Zoe Lofgren of the 16th California Congressional district, San Jose, for a tour of its nanotechnology plant. Nanosys is poised to make an economic impact on Silicon Valley by expanding its manufacturing and R and D. Representative Lofgren focused her attention on Nanosys projects leading to energy independence...
If you've been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that we've decided that we won't be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larson's Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). We're not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want nothing less than heartfelt enthusiasm. Right now Larson has 117 co-sponsors from...
Circle Thursday, February 4, 2010, on your calendar. Under the approval schedule proposed by the parties of the revised Google Books settlement, that is the date when the Justice Department will file its response to Settlement 2.0, which was submitted last Friday to Judge Denny Chin. Make no mistake. After authors, librarians, privacy advocates, and Google's would-be competitors screamed bloody murder,...
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appeared to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington...
On Saturday attended Community meeting held at Louis Sutter Clubhouse in McLaren Park organized by Supervisor John Avalos with city agencies, neighborhood groups and event promoters involved in the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater to brainstorm on how they could work together to improve the amphitheater activity and bring people to McLaren Park. People offered to help with fundraising, setting up a website,...
By Paul Kane The ethics committee is not investigating Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), whose conversation with an Israeli operative four years ago drew scrutiny from the Justice Department and for a time from the committee. The committee's top lawmakers assured Harman that there is no investigation in a letter Wednesday, a week after The Washington Post reported that Harman was one of nearly three dozen...
Washington Post | House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. 7 on defense panel scrutinized Sanchez sisters eyed by House ethics panel for alleged collusion Rep. Shuler's land...
The Democrats are so strangely self-destructive at times, I have to say this: Please tell me they're not only investigating Democrats , but Republicans, too. Because that would just be stupid. I mean, we didn't bother going after Republican war criminals - so why single out Democrats? House ethics investigators have scrutinized the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries...
A leaked congressional ethics committee document obtained by The Washington Post shows that many lawmakers have been investigated for misconduct. WP : House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report...
The Washington Post is reporting that a memo has leaked from a low-ranking staffer on the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. It indicates that over 30 members of the House are under the secretive panel's scrutiny. First, this article : House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including...
WASHINGTON – Internal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members were exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics. Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct — also known as the Ethics committee — and a panel that refers cases...
It's safe to say that Thursday was an eminently bad day for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat. Lofgren, chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, thought much of the news cycle that day would revolve around a 20-page report clearing Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican who had been referred to [...]
(ChattahBox)—Last evening in the House chamber, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee stepped up to speak, interrupting House voting, to make a startling announcement. Lofgren said that the Washington Post had obtained a confidential ethics report and the newspaper had been contacting lawmakers named in the document. She described the release [...]
Does Nancy Pelosi have a Charles Rangel voodoo doll that she's using to stick pins into Charlie's back -- in the form of the House Ethics Committee? Charles Hurt, political observer, observes ... ...[an] indication that things were starting to go badly for Rangel came the morning after that vote [on Rangel's ouster] when the Congressional Black Caucus wrote Pelosi blatantly threatening that one of...
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