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Who's seeking A Piece of the Action?
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2009 5:48 p.m.The bailout (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP, etc.) and the stimulus (the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) are massive pieces of legislation with lots of moving parts. Thus, the more eyeballs on them and what's around them, the better.
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Lobbying for a Piece of the Bailout and Stimulus Action?
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2009 4:46 p.m.First a word of caution: when the title of a database ends with a question mark (in this case, A Piece of the Action?, approach it with some caution.
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PMA Investigation: Looking for More than Straw Men?
By Bill Allison Feb 19, 2009 8:07 p.m.Congressional Quarterly looks in breadth and depth at the influence of the PMA Group, whose offices were raided by the FBI. (The story is co-written by my old colleague Alex Knott, who started delving into PMA back in 2004.) As good a story as it is ... here's an excerpt clipped from InstaPundit ...
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Treasury Taking a Bath on TARP
By Bill Allison Feb 17, 2009 5:55 p.m.Via twitter, via Right Org, comes this very cool way of tracking the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program investments from Ethisphere -- almost like an S&P index of stocks of publicly traded firms that have received money from TARP:
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Rangel-ing the Campaign Cash
By Bill Allison Feb 12, 2009 10:26 p.m.My colleague Nancy Watzman flags a fundraising flier from Rep. Charles Rangel, who held a Valentine's Day fundraiser this morning hosted by tax and accounting specialists Ernst & Young (nothing says Valentine's quite like a firm involved in the U.S. tax shelter industry).
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Murtha's PMA Group Connections
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Genealogy of the Stimulus Bill
By Bill Allison Feb 9, 2009 9:11 p.m.The current economic crisis does seem to present a combination of circumstances (the housing crisis, a credit crisis, declining international trade, rising unemployment), some of which are causes, some of which are symptoms, none of which--of course--are particularly pleasant for those going through them. So how does Congress, legislatively, address new circumstances? Do members and their staffs (and the lobbyists whispering in their ears) craft bills to solve the problems at hand? Or do they go through their archives and relabel old bills as solutions to new problems?
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Pro Publica Finds Earmarks in the Stimulus
By Bill Allison Feb 5, 2009 4:47 p.m.Mike Grabell of Pro Publica dug through the "earmark free" stimulus and found...earmarks!. There's a story with more detail here (and the obligatory Shakespeare paraphrase).
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Greasing the stimulus with pork?
By Bill Allison Feb 5, 2009 4:45 p.m.Glenn Reynolds flags the latest twist on earmarks -- we'll have them, but call them something else:
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Rangel got no proceeds from book deal
By Bill Allison Feb 5, 2009 3:26 p.m.David Kocieniewski of the New York Times gets an answer from Rep. Charles B. Rangel's spokesman, Emile Milne, on the Ways and Means chairman's book deal:
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Ethics Panel to Clear Rangel?
By Bill Allison Feb 4, 2009 4:13 p.m.House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel predicted, on C-SPAN's Newsmakers program that aired Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, that his multitude of ethics woes would soon disappear. "I think that next Tuesday you will see a break in this and as soon as the Ethics Committee organizes they ought to be able to dismiss this," National Journal's CongressDaily quoted the Rangel as saying.
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Update on Earmark Disclosure
By Bill Allison Jan 8, 2009 8:23 p.m.Just spoke to Kirstin Brost, the press contact of the House Appropriations Committee, who was kind enough to tell me that while not all of the details of the new earmark rules have been worked out, when members disclose their earmark requests, they will include the name of the beneficiaries. (Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense told us they had heard the same thing).
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Presidential Library Reform bill...
By Bill Allison Jan 7, 2009 8 p.m....is one of the first bills introduced In the House. If passed, it would require quarterly reports on donors to presidential libraries.
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Waiting for fine print on earmark requests...
By Bill Allison Jan 6, 2009 8:05 p.m.Over on Sunlight's grown up blog, I noted this Roll Call story on new earmark disclosures that the chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees agreed to. Looking at the Gavel Blog of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it appears that the disclosures may be less than meets the eye. Taking the new rules in order...
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