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American Prospect

An investigation into the private and public finances of Rick Santorum suggests that the Senate GOP might want to reconsider making him its ethics czar. The Santorums bought their oversized Shenstone “estate” even though his financial disclosure form

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Raw Story

A top-secret meeting was then underway between Savimbi and his boosters, led by a young American Republican activist named Jack Abramoff. He was there representing an organization he founded, the International Freedom Foundation. The group was codena

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Columbus Dispatch

Thomas W. Noe, the coin dealer and prominent Republican contributor whose $50 million state coin investment sparked one of the biggest scandals in Ohio state government history, was indicted today on 53 felonies, including theft of more than $1 milli

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Christian Science Monitor

Nine months before the November midterm elections, the Republican campaign theme is already clear: It's the terrorism, stupid. The Bush White House has not been shy about its political use of an event, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which for a time

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Associated Press

3 members of Congress have been linked to efforts by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former General Services Administration official to secure leases of government property for Abramoff's clients, according to court filings by federal prosecutors

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Washington Post

Their free market principles gone. Their claims to not starting wars discarded. Their boasts of cutting taxes and being spend thrifts abandoned with glee. Ideas of liberty tossed. Bob Barr is one of the last principled conservatives alive.

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Los Angeles Times

There is considerable disappointment that Bush has not tamed the federal deficit. His immigration plan has divided hard-line conservatives who oppose his guest-worker proposal. Even the administration's policies in the war on terrorism have creat

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Business Week

In the carpeted corridors of K Street, the 11,500 people who earn their living in the influence-peddling profession know a different reality. They understand that money goes up to Capitol Hill by demands from members of Congress.

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Gannett News Service

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits. Tucked into a Defense Department appropriations bill at the last minute

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Associated Press

A White House aide who was once chief of staff to House Majority Leader John Boehner helped plan a 1996 trip to the Northern Mariana Islands that was organized by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Barry Jackson, now chief deputy to Karl Rove, accepted a

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Associated Press

[His experience with lobbyists makes him a natural.] Indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, forced to step down as the No. 2 Republican in the House, scored a soft landing as GOP leaders rewarded him with a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee.

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Washington Post (see video link below)

John Boehner (R-OH), elected House Majority Leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has cowritten/overseen http://crooksandliars.com/2006/02/08.html#a7073

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New York Daily News

President Bush changed his schedule at the last minute to attend Coretta Scott King's funeral. It might have been a mistake. Not only was he overshadowed by the Bill and Hillary show, but he sat squirming on the dais.

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The Grand Ole Docket tracks trial dates, court appearances and sentencing hearings for players in the current array of national political scandals. But not just any crook can make it on the Docket - it only tracks perps who've been named b

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Associated Press

The 17 members of Congress who went to Dublin, Ireland, on an Aspen Institute-paid trip last summer got a walking tour of the city. They also spent 6 hours each of the 4 days in discussions with scholars and policymakers about US relations with Europ

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Los Angeles Times

The lobbying firm of Grimes and Young Inc. is not on K Street, famous address of some of the nation's most influential lobbyists. In fact, Grimes and Young is about a 2 1/2-hour drive from the halls of Congress, in politically remote Media, Pa.,

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USA Today

Campaign-finance law has helped Indian tribes increase their political clout is under scrutiny. Last year, tribal casinos raked in nearly $20 billion in revenue, becoming political donors in the same league with drug companies and defense contractors

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Christian Science Monitor

Of all the audiences George W. Bush faces Tuesday night in his fifth annual State of the Union message - Congress, the American people, the world - perhaps the most important will be independent voters. They who left the president's side l

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Undernews

New Orleans is about to be struck by another disaster— not a natural one like Katrina, but by the human disaster of modern urban planning. The problem with urban planners is two fold. First, they work for the wrong people, the government, rather than

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Associated press

A California congressman who accepted campaign cash from disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and used his sports box for a fundraiser interceded on behalf of 2 American Indian tribes that were represented by Abramoff's firm

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