What: Press conference in support of maintaining the Office of Congressional Ethics When: 10:30 am EST Thursday, Dec. 2 Where: Room 2203 Rayburn House Office Building Who: Campaign Legal Center Policy Director Meredith McGehee Common Cause President Bob Edgar Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Policy Director Jeremy Miller Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton League of Women Voters Executive Director Nancy Tate National Taxpayers Union… [read post]

Indeed, Gary Weiss at Salon.com even suggests that “greed fatigue” has set in. [read post]

I’d like to thank members of the SEC staff for their work on these final rules, including: Mellissa Duru, Luna Bloom, Elliot Staffin, Kristin Baldwin, Valian Afshar, Almaze Semere, Dennis Hermreck, Nolan McWilliams, Grace Baer, Lindsay McCord, Ethan Horowitz, Robert Errett, Deegi Biteng, Adam Turk, Ted Yu, Liz Walsh, Duc Dang, Brad Skinner, Mike Reedich, Kat Bagley, Cheryl Brown, Jeb Byrne, Nabeel Cheema, John Fieldsend, Jason Weidberg, Michael Coco, Angie Kim, Charli Gibbs-Tabler, and Chris… [read post]

[The same logic could apply when churches, synagogues, mosques, bookstores, gun stores, fur stores, and similar places are targeted by their enemies. [read post]