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Manifest Disparity
The article examines the "distribution of earmarked dollars among members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including vast disparities between white lawmakers and their black and Hispanic counterparts, using data made available for the first time through new congressional transparency rules."
Tags: money allocation; earmarked dollars; racial disparities; earmark sponsors; Congressional transparency rules
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Federal Tax Cheats
This investigation found tens of thousands of employees of the federal government did not pay their taxes. This accounts for $2 billion in unpaid taxes. Employees worked for the house of representatives, the senate, the department of veterans affairs, the department of homeland security and even in the white house. 32 thousand employees of the U.S. Postal Service alone owed more than $200 million.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOIA; taxes; federal employee; house of representatives; senate; department of veterans affairs; department of homeland security; white house; tax evasion; postal service
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Tangled Vines
In 1992, a California politician opened a winery with about two dozen investors. By the summer of 2003, the business was bankrupt and the politician ended up with all of the company's major assets, while the other investors had worthless stock. This investigation chronicles the downfall of the winery and specifically focuses on the nine months between October 2002 and July, 2003, when a complex series of events resulted in the dissolution of the winery and an unfair distribution of assets.
Tags: wine; grapes; George Radanovich; conservative; real estate development; congress; U.S. House of Representatives
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U.S. Rep. Karen McCarthy's Troubling Performance
The Associated Press reveals that five-term congresswoman, Karen McCarthy, has a pattern of skipped votes, high staff turnover and questionable office spending. For years she had missed important votes on the floor and in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She hired, fired and lost aides at a seemingly dysfunctional rate. Her legislative record shows she passed only one bill in eight and a half years. And she was trying to stick taxpayers with a campaign consultant's bill in violation of House rules. McCarthy announced her retirement one month after AP broke the allegations.
Tags: Congress; Missouri Rep. Karen McCarthy; House Energy and Commerce Committee; taxpayers; House of Representatives; House Administration Committee; legislative record; campaign bill; campaign credit card; travel itinerary; votes; Congressional Observer Publications; Congressional Management Foundation; House spending records; National Conference of State Legislatures; Select Committee on Homeland Security; National Taxpayers Union; campaign consultant; campaign funds; personal spending; House Ethics Committee; Ways and Means Committee
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Power Lines: Political deck-stacking maps the future before you vote
In this three-part series, Assad and Ayers take a look at how the once a decade task of reapportionment, adjusting federal, state, and local legislative districts to account for current Census numbers. What once was a "housekeeping chore for map-drawing bureaucrats is a bare-knuckled political brawl that not only has Republicans fighting Democrats, but also allies fighting each other." The Morning Call's analysis finds that a GOP backed plan would increase the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives from 222-to-210 to 227-205. The series also looks at how Blacks and Latinos are trying to shore up their numbers and create a minority heavy legislative district.
Tags: Politics; reapportionment; congress; census; CAR; database mapping project
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The Most Expensive Race
"Something crazy is happening in American politics. It is compounded of competitiveness, consultant specialization, a corrupted campaign-finance system, the maturation of polling and advertising technology and a surfeit of careless contributions in a booming economy." The most expensive congressional race of 2000 is between GOP incumbent James Rogan and Democratic State Senator Adam Stiff. The big story here may not be the contributions to the campaigns, but all the money spent on professional political fundraisers. L.A. politico Big Joe Cerrell calls this particular race "the consultant full employment act."
Tags: PAC; fundraising; U.S. House of Representatives; direct mail; issue advocacy; National Republican Congressional Committee; Armenians; campaign finance; political consultants
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Candidates turn to Westport for financial help
The Hour (Norwalk, CT) reports that "If money is the mother's milk of politics, this town is a dairy farm. Westport's Democratic, Republican and unaffiliated residents give and give and give to campaigners across the country running for the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate and the presidency...."
Tags: donations
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Newt & the Dirty Dozen
Mother Jones investigates the U.S. House of Representatives to select its "dirty dozen," the twelve representatives with the closest financial ties to special interest groups. The article uncovers lawmakers receiving hidden money from special interest groups and performing special favors for their financial backers.
Tags: Burstein Reid Dreyfuss Lauerman et al Newt & the Dirty Dozen Conflict of interest
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The National Journal studies the U.S. House of Representative's Class of '92; findings include not living up to calls for more independence and elimination of perks.
Tags: DC Browning Congress
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USA Today and Gannett News Service (Arlington, Va.) examines how the U.S. House of Representatives spends the budget it allocates to pay for offices; finds members skirt their own rules by funneling money into special-interest caucuses, which are not bound to the same rules; no means of monitoring Congressional spending exists, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 1992.
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