Ethics Panel Clears Seven Lawmakers In Probe Of Contracts For Campaign Donors

Washington Post:

The ethics committee decided to clear Visclosky even though the Office of Congressional Ethics, which conducts preliminary reviews, found probable cause that Visclosky sought contributions in exchange for steering federal contracts

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Comments

[USABrazil]

04:08 PM on 02/28/2010

My BIO: FORMER DEMOCRAT NEW INDEPENDENT!

This the first action on my part, just can't be waiting every 6, 4, 2 years to depose one of those monarchs...
Will vote them out, but needing something more dynamic them the corrupt voting process...
They wont get much revenue from me... Downgrading everything possible...
If every citizen cut $20.00 to $50.00 from their avoidable monthly expenses and chance their party alliance from dem or rep to independent...I doubt they won't get the message...

post scriptum: $50.00 multiplied for several millions would be a considerable chunk of revenue lost direct and indirectly...It would show more power than words can express...

[USABrazil]

04:53 PM on 02/28/2010

***dynamic THAN the corrupt voting system...

[joyfulworld]

03:29 PM on 02/28/2010

Pretty soon there won't be anything left of our once great nation to sell or steal or give away!!! Except for a very few like Grayson, our reps don't have any ethics, I doubt that they even know what the word means. I don't think they are able to develop ethics.

[cdembrey]

03:18 PM on 02/28/2010

Things like this is what drives the patriot/tea/oathers movements. Just look at the quotes from average people in this NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html

[Fred Hood]

01:24 PM on 02/28/2010

I vote this article should be on the front page in the morning........

[Fred Hood]

01:23 PM on 02/28/2010

having worked and retired from a major corporation quite a few years in sales......one thing was understood....

If you let a contract (and we bid ours no bid contracts are a crazy practice) to anyone

And it was brought to light you received money from this contractor

To grease the skids for a contractor you award a contract to

YOU WERE FIRED NO QUESTIONS ASK........NO PANEL........NO SECOND CHANCE

[Fred Hood]

01:08 PM on 02/28/2010

what we have today.....

representatives who sell their sole for the millions that will secure future generations of their name for all time......

the supreme court gave a deadly blow with unlimited buying of our representatives and its now legal

the ethics committee has ruled bribing our representatives is not a problem even though this is aginst ever ethics rule we embrace to protect us

mainly because they are above conventional laws.......they bend change and have lawyers to advise them they are in fact not accountable for law we are forced or feel we need to follow......it is time to draw a line in the sand........if you feel the same join me in correcting this starting with the one we owe most of our lost freedoms to........ no to mention giving our hard earned money to corporations BUSH/CHANEY

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage

join support contribute to this organization we need to reestablish accountability starting at the top

[perspicacious1]

12:46 PM on 02/28/2010

Let's add all of them to the unemployment lines in November!

[Fred Hood]

01:17 PM on 02/28/2010

WORD.......

[Mark2100]

01:30 PM on 02/28/2010

Republicans love hearing this, that's why the meme is showing up more and more on the right. 'Throw them all out' throws the the majority out which would put us right back into the bush/cheney/rove horror of the 00's. We need to call out these individuals and replace them with true progressives who are on the side of the people.

[Fred Hood]

01:35 PM on 02/28/2010

?? I meant the ones taking bribes and the ones who say its OK.......I don't care what party label they wear

[Mark2100]

12:39 PM on 02/28/2010

From the Marcy Kaptur website

"She has long argued for the need for political reform, calling on her own party to grow less dependent on fundraising and to better listen to the working class. A member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she has described herself as part of the “non-money wing of our Democratic caucus."

[oldgeek1]

12:25 PM on 02/28/2010

Hey.. it is refreshing to see Democrats and Republicans can find common ground and finally all admit its all about the Benjamin’s

[jamesd95]

12:15 PM on 02/28/2010

What i interesting to me is that almost every comment here is non-partisan, just digusted with Washington in general. Maybe some day the people ca actually take back our country again!!

[JJK]

11:57 AM on 02/28/2010

Gives us in a New York a sense of how bad Charlie Rangel must really be if these clowns found that he actually did something wrong.

[Soulsurfer]

11:48 AM on 02/28/2010

And they wonder why voters don't come to the polls, and give Congress such low marks.......what a bunch of lowlifes.

[RitaS]

11:43 AM on 02/28/2010

That so-called Ehtics Committee needs to investigated themselves for their own ethics.

This and the Supreme court ruling that a Coporation is a person just takes the cake & just re-affirms that all politicians are BOUGHT & PAID FOR.....

[Cheryl2]

11:34 AM on 02/28/2010

They have now made it clear that government is for sale. What next, a national shakedown for campaign contributions?

[Fred Hood]

01:28 PM on 02/28/2010

to late......how it works

you award a company like backwater a no bid contract worth one billion (about to happen)

they in turn contribute (kickback) to the lawmakers that supported the contract millions

BING

[elbzee]

02:49 PM on 02/28/2010

You mean, CHA-CHING! dontcha Fred?

[Fred Hood]

10:49 AM on 02/28/2010

this is treason against our country......plain and simple