The House Committee on Ethics released its report last month exonerating 7 Members of Congress from the charge that they had traded earmark requests for... Full Story »
Posted by Randy Morrow - via OneRiot, Huffington Post (Featured), Mark Pegrum (t), Fabrice Florin (f)
This article contains a little background on recent ethics investigations in the congress and a suggestion on how the appearance of buying influence could be avoided: "But if Congress's elections were differently financed -- funded exclusively, for example, by small dollar democracy vouchers ($50 a voter would quadruple the total amount raised in 2008) or small dollar contributions matched by the government -- then any suggestion of improper influence would be just silly."
