thinkprogress.org | Posted 05.25.2011
In spite of that expectation, Boehner is threatening to axe the Office of Congressional ethics. Established in March of 2008 after the Jack Abramoff s...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, d...
Melanie Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011
"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet." -- Mark Twain In a way, Mark...
National Journal | By Eliza Newlin Carney | Posted 05.25.2011
But behind closed doors, Boehner's agenda clashes head-on with the populist rhetoric of many newly elected Republican House members. Even as they outl...
AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised four years ago that Democrats would lead "the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in ...
AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — House investigators have recommended that three lawmakers be further investigated to determine whether political contributions were...
Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011
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Mimi Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is Waters attacked for something remotely involving her husband while Harman receives no questions at all as her husband buys Newsweek?
Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011
A handful of Members of Congress have accepted more than $100,000 worth of free international travel from the religious organization affiliated with t...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
The thing about promising to drain the swamp is that people tend to remember. Then they expect you to do it. What a pain in the gavel! Actually, that's only partially true.
Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of the scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, congressional leaders vowed two years ago to get tough on ethics violations. Th...
Jonathan Richards | Posted 08.17.2011