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More ethics problems for Rangel
The House Ethics Committee says 20-term Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel repeatedly violated ethics rules by accepting corporate money for lavish trips to the Caribbean. Rangel, chairman of the powerful House…
Democrats scuttle vote on jobs bill
The jobs bill may be headed for the unemployment line after an unlikely coalition raised enough hell about the legislation to force House leaders to scrap a planned Friday vote.…
We’re getting there…
An interesting…and long…week here at Capitol Hill Blue. A week ago today our database server crashed under a heavy resource load and CHB was offline for seven hours. In today’s…
Democrats retreat again, scrap privacy protections
Democrats continued their political agenda of retreating under fire Wednesday by agreeing to back down on proposals to implement new privacy protections in the controversial USA Patriot Act, choosing instead…
Toyota’s boss gets a Congressional grilling
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda had his come-to-Jesus session with Congress Wednesday but problems for he and his embattled company are far from over. The world’s largest automaker still faces investigations…
Lights! Camera! Inaction!
Thursday’s day-long, televised health care summit at Blair House in Washington may make good political theater but few expect anything substantial to emerge from the posturing by Democrats and Republicans.…
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