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The head of a government ethics organization accused House Republican Jim Jordan of Urbana of helping President Donald Trump “thwart” Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump aides in 2016 colluded with Russian officials to damage the presidential campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21 in Washington, charged that by threatening articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for refusing to turn over to Congress documents about the investigation, Jordan, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-S.C., and Trump are “colluding to obstruct and potentially give” the White House control of the probe. Melika...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Tickets to all official inaugural events, including an "elegant" candlelight dinner with a special appearance by President Bush: $100,000. Tickets to all official inaugural events, two additional tickets to an "exclusive" lunch with Mr. Bush and Vice President Cheney, plus an all-access pass to any inaugural ball: $250,000. Telling your friends, "As I explained to the president just the other day... .": priceless. Mr. Bush's inaugural committee, seeking to raise more than $40 million, a record, sent out hundreds of solicitations to the president's biggest campaign contributors this week offering packages of party benefits and access...

It is a good thing Fred Wertheimer and other self-styled campaign finance reformers were not around 65 years ago. Otherwise, the polio vaccine may never have been developed when it did. In 1938 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as the March of Dimes. Its stated mission was to eradicate polio from the face of the Earth. Roosevelt, a polio victim himself, raised money for the charity by soliciting tens of thousands of dollars from wealthy friends and business magnates. He threw annual "President's Birthday Ball" fundraisers in which FDR and various celebrities...

Posted on Sun, Dec. 28, 2003 McConnell's lost battle bears name, memory DESPITE DEFEAT, SENATOR STILL OPPOSES CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW By Carl Hulse And Glen Justice NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Sen. Mitch McConnell was such a determined opponent of the new campaign finance law that when the fight moved from Congress to the courts, he made certain the decisive case was titled McConnell v. FEC. Now, with the Supreme Court validating the campaign spending restrictions enforced by the Federal Election Commission in a ruling earlier this month, Kentucky's senior U.S. senator will remain strongly identified with the...