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See no evil, hear no evil, report no evil
Here’s something we would have never guessed: Government agencies have been rife with ethical missteps, according to Christopher Lee’s story, “Study finds government ethics lapses,” in the WaPo. Not...
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Senate panel: Put away your party hats
Not surprisingly, the Senate Ethics Committee has a different take on whether lobbyists should be allowed to throw parties for lawmakers at this summer’s national conventions. Unlike the House Ethics...
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Obama breaks ethics promise, tags Vilsack for Ag
Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel and Chris Frates report: No political appointee, Obama’s transition team has declared, “will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially...
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Obama Administration Teaches Ethics Lesson Via Daschle Withdrawal
by David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division It’s big news when a president says something like “I screwed up.” And it’s true that mistakes were made, so to speak, regarding...
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Another one bites the dust
Victory! Roll Call reports that the nomination of Chamber of Commerce lapdog Mark Gitenstein to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy has been dropped — and suggests Public Citizen...
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Conflicts of interest in the military-industrial complex
USA Today’s Ken Dilanian, Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker reported today on retired military officers being employed as by a company that helps contractors win Pentagon contracts. At the same time,...
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The price to pollute
How much does a pro-pollution amendment cost? From the looks of recent reports about the relationship between Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and a big energy lobbyist, at least about $35,000. That’s...
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Conflict of interest? Definitely.
On her show last month, Rachel Maddow covered a story on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The judge who overturned the moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has a financial portfolio....
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