Posted on 02/25/2009 4:28:01 PM PST by STARWISE
The House voted Wednesday to kill a resolution calling for an ethics investigation into potential quid pro quo between lobbyist campaign donations and lawmakers.
Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., sponsored the proposal that would have forced the House Ethics Committee to launch a probe into ties between the source and timing of campaign contributions by lobbyists and subsequent legislator requests for special projects or earmarks.
While open-ended, Flake's resolution was a direct response to the ongoing federal investigation into the PMA Group, a lobbying company accused of making fraudulent donations to lawmakers using names of people who did not exist.
The firm, which has contributed millions to politicians in the last decade, has close ties to senior Democratic appropriators including Reps. John Murtha D-Pa., and Pete Visclosky,D-Ind. The FBI raided PMA's headquarters in November and is investigating the group's founder and president, Paul Magliochetti, a former Murtha aide.
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We won. We can do anything we want and you can’t stop us.
Transparency lasts only just so long...
“FBI raided PMA’s headquarters in November and is investigating the group’s founder and president, Paul Magliochetti, a former Murtha aide.”
LOL. Wonder if this is the guy who gave us the one finger salute at the Nasville Murtha freep?
Sounds like it was a party line vote...Republicans and a few dems voting for Flake’s bill. That ought to tell everyone in this country which is the true ‘PARTY OF CORRUPTION...DEMOCRATS’
The Dems ran on corruption and won, the GOP should do the same in 2010. ALL politicians are corrupt to one extent or another, its the nature of the game.
Stick to principles and we win in 2010.
My shiny new democrat congressman just got hit with the largest penalty ever in Michigan. Starting out right.
http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2009/2/25/95012/4337
Ah, the Culture of Corruption wins again.
I looked for a photo but couldn’t find one.
He keeps his mug off the public record
EXECUTIVE ORDER Transparency will not occur when it might show Democrats taking bribes, kickbacks, and other crimes.
This would make really good press-—if it were a Republican problem. The most we can hope for is a tiny squeak that may get louder. The dems are masters of “the culture of corruption” and hiding it.
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Corruption is our right, doncha know?
And then there is the right to lie about it.
“Which lawmakers sponsored those earmarks? CQ reports:
Flake’s office released a compilation of eight earmarks worth $7.7 million in the bill. Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group, sent out the same list and identified the individual sponsors of the earmarks as Reps. Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana, Tim Ryan of Ohio, John B. Larson of Connecticut, Brad Sherman and Jane Harman of California, Stephen F. Lynch of Massachusetts and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri. Reps. Mike Doyle and Jason Altmire , both of Pennsylvania, were identified as cosponsors of one earmark.
All but one of those earmarks is in the section of the bill written by the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, which is headed by [Rep. Pete] Visclosky.
Several of those members, including Doyle, Ryan, Larsen, Altmire, and Sherman, are among the top recipients of PMA’s campaign cash.”
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/john_murtha/
Please God.....may they be defeated in multiple ways!
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