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  1. Quarters doubled in odd years, halved again in evens

    By Bill Allison May 7, 2009 4:11 p.m.

    This always makes me thing of Lewis Carroll every time I see it. A PAC tells the FEC it's going to file quarterly reports rather than monthly reports. The FEC approves the request, and writes back:

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  2. Congressional ethics committees: What's past is prolog

    By Bill Allison Mar 26, 2009 4:27 p.m.

    Glenn Reynolds notes that the two congressional ethics committees are off to a less than rapid start and observes, "It's like it's not meant to actually do anything."

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  3. Disabled adult children

    By Bill Allison Mar 26, 2009 1:06 p.m.

    This morning, while reading a release linked from Recovery.gov, I ran across one of those government terms that make no sense. As part of the stimulus efforts, the Railroad Retirement Board, an independent agency that manages federal benefits for railroad retirees and their dependents (more details on why this board exists here) will send additional checks of $250 to most of its beneficiaries, "including disabled adult children."

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  4. The Gilded Age on congressional investigations

    By Bill Allison Mar 25, 2009 3:25 a.m.

    How little things change. In The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, a member of the Senate, Abner Dilworthy, is caught bribing a state legislator to ensure his reelection. Dilworthy knows how to respond:

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