Thursday, April 27, 2006

sweet: Sweet column: House takes up lame ethics bill today. Even weak bill would have disclosed Bobby Rush $1m link to company he regulates.

sweet: Sweet column: House takes up lame ethics bill today. Even weak bill would have disclosed Bobby Rush $1m link to company he regulates.: "Sweet column: House takes up lame ethics bill today. Even weak bill would have disclosed Bobby Rush $1m link to company he regulates.

UPDATE from when I filed today's column (click below).

Late last night, the GOP House leadership rebuffed attempts to but some meat on the ethics and lobby bill bone. I'll post more on this later.

Today's column

Under ethics legislation up for a vote today, the cozy, $1million relationship between the charitable arm of phone giant SBC/AT&T and Rep. Bobby Rush, the only Democrat co-sponsoring the rewrite of a telecommunications bill, would have to be made public."

No comments: