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  1. Maxine Waters gets promotion despite ethics questions

    By Lindsay Young Dec 5, 2012 2:40 p.m.

    Congresswoman Maxine Waters will serve in the top Democratic position in the House Financial Services Committee, despite uncertain ethics, a past Office of Government Ethics (OGE) investigation, and a history of questionable fundraising.

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  2. Emerson was in formal talks with electric co-op days after reelection

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Dec 4, 2012 3:29 p.m.

    On Nov. 19, nine business days after she won reelection with 72 percent of the vote, Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., began final negotiations for a new job with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, official documents show.

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  3. "It's left up to the members"

    By Bill Allison Jul 29, 2010 6:43 p.m.

    My colleague Anu Narayanswamy has written on House disbursements; interestingly, they figure in a footnote of Rep. Charles Rangel's defense against the charges leveled against him by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct:

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