congressional ethics

With newspapers dying, who will keep an eye on the travel industry?

by Charlie Leocha on March 4, 2009

Two stories caught my eye this weekend: one about the closing of the Rocky Mountain News and another about the death of a House resolution calling for an ethics committee inquiry into the relationship between campaign contributions and earmarks. Newspapers, once the guardian and voice of the public, are dying. Who will keep an eye the travel industry?

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American Airlines may have violated ethics rules

by Charlie Leocha on January 30, 2009

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and five of his Congressional Black Caucus colleagues joined Citicorp on a junket to the Caribbean only a week after the votes on the TARP $700 billion bailout package. American Airlines provided the tickets to this junket for the members of Congress. That’s a no no.

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