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Shame on Congress for repealing major provision of STOCK Act; Obama should veto
In a knee-jerk reaction to concerns that too many people may be required to disclose personal financial data, Congress quickly and quietly approved legislation over the past 24 hours to repeal major...
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Latest D.C. scandal news highlights urgency of pay-to-play legislation
Today’s news that former D.C. Councilmember Michael Brown plans to plead guilty to corruption charges highlights the urgency for the Council to pass pay-to-play legislation before the next city...
View ArticleBogus Bill Uses Sick Children as Excuse to Undermine Anti-Corruption Law
Follow [twitter-user link=”yes”] on Twitter Congress passed – unanimously in the Senate and without debate – and President Obama will sign, H.R. 2019, the “Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act”...
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Clinton’s embrace of super PAC highlights fallacy of independence
With today’s news report that Hillary Clinton will actively work with and solicit funds for a super PAC supporting her candidacy, the very notion that these groups are “independent” of candidates is...
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36 Former Lobbyists Working for Trump Have Clear Conflicts of Interest
More than three dozen former lobbyists who serve in the Trump Administration handle the same specific issues on which they lobbied within the past two years, a new Public Citizen report shows,...
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Donald Trump, Jr. Email Raises Host of Potential Criminal Violations
The revelation that Donald Trump, Jr. jumped on an offer to meet with a person described as a “Russian government attorney” bringing the Trump campaign gifts of documents that would injure the image of...
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Public Citizen Praises Congressional Leaders for Trying to Keep Politics Out...
Note: A group of nearly 100 lawmakers urged the leaders of the tax-writing U.S. House Ways and Means Committee to maintain the Johnson Amendment, which forbids churches and other tax-exempt 501(c)(3)...
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30 Ways the Trump Administration May be Violating Its Own Ethics Rules
On a Saturday afternoon about a week into his term, President Trump issued an ethics executive order designed to implement his campaign pledge to “drain the swamp.” The ethics order came as a surprise...
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Trump’s Plan Runs into a Wall
Trump’s latest proposal to pay for a border wall very likely is illegal – a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. Backing down from his pledge to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t allocate...
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Civic groups, academics urge Congress to support the Executive Branch...
Hearings are continuing on H.R. 1, the landmark elections and ethics bill. One part of the bill that deserves more attention is what it would do to slow the revolving door. Learn more about this issue...
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