by MCDC | Aug 18, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Wall Street
The House Financial Services Committee has grown so large that a highly unusual fourth row of seats had to be installed in the committee room. Every term, scores of members, particularly freshmen, demand a seat on the panel — not because they have a burning interest...
by MCDC | Aug 17, 2013 | Ethics, Voter Rights
A tip-of-the-hat to Marilyn P. for alerting us to this story.. Republican operatives are charging forward with their efforts to sabotage the Federal Election Commission in its lawful obligation to police campaign abuses. The six-member commission is evenly divided...
by MCDC | Aug 14, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
A tip-of-the-hat to the Bristol Virginia Democratic Committee A political brouhaha erupted Tuesday over news that Virginia’s top fraud investigator is scrutinizing how the attorney general’s office has handled a series of federal lawsuits over natural gas royalties....
by MCDC | Aug 13, 2013 | Ethics, Health Care, Issues
“To put it another way, the GOP was never really concerned about a “government takeover of health care”, “rationing”, “the doctor-patient relationship” or mythical “death panels,” but that an American public...
by MCDC | Aug 13, 2013 | Ethics, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
McDonnell Burns His Benefactor Governor McDonnell is under criminal investigation over allegations that he and his family received various “gifts” from Star Scientific executive Jonnie Williams. Those gifts are said to total more than $145,000...
by MCDC | Aug 11, 2013 | History, Issues, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
The Supreme Court’s activist conservative majority, in a 5-4 vote on June 25, threw out the provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which required states and localities (mostly in the Old Confederacy) to clear any changes in electoral law with the federal Department...
