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Capitol Assets: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives - Washington Post

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, David S. Fallis - Feb. 08 (Investigative Report) - .. the practice has continued unabated, the Post found.

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Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers' properties

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By David S. Fallis, Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy - Feb. 07 (Investigative Report) - .. lawmakers have acknowledged the public's growing concern that they appeared to be using their positions to enrich themselves.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Powerhouse Websites Consider Internet Blackout

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - Dec. 30 (News) - Anti-SOPA pop-up banners online protest a law that many argue will dramatically alter the Internet. In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coord

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Secret Fed Loans Undisclosed to Congress Gave Banks $13 Billion in Income

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - On Nov. 26, 2008, then-Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth D. Lewis wrote to shareholders that he headed “one of the strongest and most stable major banks in the world.” He didn’t say that his firm owed the central bank $86 billion that

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The Pledge: Grover Norquist's hold on the GOP

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

60 Minutes - By Steve Kroft - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - As head of Americans for Tax Reform since 1986, Grover Norquist has transformed a single issue - preventing tax hikes - into one of the key platforms of the Republican Party. As Steve Kroft reports, his biggest coup was getting more than 270 members of Congress, and nearly all of the 2012 Republican presidential primary candidates, to sign a pledge promising never to vote to raise taxes. But some opponents say the pledge may be hindering a solution to America's debt crisis.

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Panel Fails to Reach Deal on Plan for Deficit Reduction

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer, Robert Pear, Helene Cooper - Nov. 22 (News Report) - After one last bout of fitful but futile talks, Congressional negotiators conceded the obvious: that the joint Congressional committee charged with drafting a deficit reduction package would miss its deadline this week. But they did not quite give up the ghost of a chance that a solution might be found later.

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World financial markets tumble on news of debt supercommittee’s stalemate

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Neil Irwin - Nov. 21 (News Report) - World financial markets tumbled Monday, as there were no new signs of resolution to Europe’s intractable crisis and as the U.S. debt supercommittee failed to reach agreement on a deficit reduction plan. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 245 points, or 2.1 percent and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 1.9 percent. Global markets were down even more, with the German Dax index off 3.4 percent and French and Spanish markets down by similar amounts.

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