"Trick or Treat!"
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
FILE - These various dated file photos shows some of House members exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics. Top row, from left are, Rep. James Moran, D-Va., Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., Rep. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., and Rep. Nancy Kaptur, D-Ohio. Bottom row, from left are, Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif., Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., Rep. C.W. Young, R-Fla., and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. (AP Photo/FILES)
"Ethics panel scrutinizing dozens of House members" by Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer | October 30, 2009
WASHINGTON --Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.
Seven of the lawmakers -- four not previously known -- serve on a defense appropriations subcommittee that divvies up money for Pentagon contractors....
Committee Chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and ranking Republican Jo Bonner of Alabama, were examining the conduct of some lawmakers on the defense panel.Members of the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee had steered targeted appropriations called earmarks to clients of a now-defunct lobbying firm -- PMA -- and received contributions from the firm and its clients.
Related: The War Pimps of PMA
The names of defense subcommittee chairman John Murtha, D-Pa., and Democratic members Jim Moran of Virginia and Peter Visclosky of Indiana had previously surfaced in connection with the inquiry.
An allegedly antiwar Dem.
Related: War Looter's Wednesday: The Mirth of Murtha
Pfft!
The document adds the names of Norm Dicks, D-Wash.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; ranking subcommittee Republican C.W. Bill Young of Florida and Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. All four have received campaign contributions from PMA's political action committee and employees.
Oh, Marcy!!!!
The Pentagon budget panel had such an allure for Kaptur -- who represents a Toledo-anchored Rust Belt district -- that in 2005 she gave up her party's top seat on the agriculture subcommittee to claim a rare open seat on Murtha's subcommittee.
She would have become one of a dozen Appropriations subcommittee chairmen had she stayed put. A spokesman for Kaptur, Steve Fought, said she expected to be cleared. "She's saying there was no quid pro quo."
Oh, Marcy!!!
Related: Meet Your Antiwar New England Liberals
Is there NO ONE BUT RON PAUL and DENNIS KUCINICH worth a spit down there?
The most prominent lawmaker under investigation, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has been interviewed about his personal finances, the document showed. However, it revealed less than the committee's public announcements about the ever-expanding investigation of Rangel's travel, financial deals, fundraising and financial disclosures....
Related: Obama Takes Care of Grandma
And Chucky takes care of himself!
That is where my printed paper whacks it.
Subpoenas were authorized to the Justice Department and National Security Agency for intercepted communications in an inquiry involving Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. News stories have reported she was heard in a 2005 conversation agreeing to a request to seek lenient treatment for two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosing national defense secrets.
Related: Harman's Huff
I can see why the Glob picked up the Times rewrite, too!
Sure TOOK a LOT of NAMES OUT!!!
Charges were dismissed against the lobbyists at the request of prosecutors.
See: Slow Saturday Special: Zionist Spies Set Free
Harman has denied she had contacted anyone seeking favorable treatment for the lobbyists, and she has asked the Justice Department to release any transcripts of her recorded conversations.
Then she is a TREASONOUS LIAR!
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One of them tried to come back for seconds!
"Rep. Waters facing ethics probe" by Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | October 30, 2009
A congressional ethics committee is proceeding with its investigation of California Representative Maxine Waters, who is accused of helping a troubled Boston bank with ties to her husband obtain $12 million in government aid.
See: California Bank of Waters
Black Bank Robbers in Suits and Suites
She's looking out for the little guy?
The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said it voted unanimously to establish an investigative subcommittee to look into the matter. The committee also confirmed the subject of the investigation - whether Waters violated any rules to help the National Bankers Association or OneUnited Bank. Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, served on the bank’s board of directors and owned at least $250,000 stock in the institution.
Waters reportedly helped arrange a meeting between regulators and OneUnited executives in September 2008 without disclosing her husband’s ties to bank. OneUnited, which says it is the largest US black-owned bank, later received $12 million. Waters, a Democrat, has acknowledged she helped to arrange the meeting but....
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They left my bag empty!!!
