Why did Sen. Frist suddenly decide to sell the stock in June after holding the stock for so long? Also, did the Senator order the sale based on insider knowledge that the value of the...

Lobbying reform is going more the enforcement route. What’s that going to do? Nothing much.

A man who lives in a $1.1 million mansion in Washington does not intend to move into an 814-square-foot cottage that he’s rented out since 1997.

It is scandalous that our government is still trying to cover up its breathtakingly inadequate response to the greatest natural disaster in our nation’s history.

The noose is tightening around his neck. [DeLay] was running a criminal enterprise out of his office. There was no way he did not know what was going on.

He really lobbies for clients, although they don’t call them clients. He will lobby for those who have made contributions.

starting to undermine the prosecutor by implying that he’s only going to be able to indict on technicalities.

I think they both have been cleared here.

The only way to get an FOI request honored these days is to go to court. We can go to court and win, but some regular person is not going to know how to file...

It’s actually breaking the law.

Without oversight or enforcement, rule changes are virtually meaningless.

The problem is, they don’t want to enforce the ethics rules, and they don’t have any interest in enforcing ethics rules.

Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone.

It’s breaking house rules which prevent a member from using travel funds for anything but their own travel. And it breaks federal Election Commission law, which requires that only campaign funds be used for campaign...

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn’t really deserve.

Rep. Johnson abused the public trust by using the power of his office to harass an organization which had taken a position with which he disagreed. Such actions are specifically prohibited by federal law and...

[Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] was compelled to research and release a report on these corrupt members because the ethics committees in both the House and Senate are completely inert, … The report...

You have to have power to abuse it. You would be foolish to give money to a Democrat because they wouldn’t be able to deliver anything.

No matter what level of corruption the members of Congress engage in, the ethics committees do nothing. It’s a national embarrassment.

The way that they’ve presented it makes it look more independent than it in fact is, and that’s misleading.

This is going to be one of the biggest congressional scandals ever.

That’s because there’s an ethics truce. Both parties will deny this, but there is in fact a truce that’s been in existence since 1998. And under the terms of the truce nobody will file a...

The House Ethics Committee doesn’t look at anything.

They all violated ethics rules.

not only has Sen. Frist likely engaged in illegal activity, he has also been attempting to cover up his actions by suddenly finding a conflict of interest that he never before recognized. Sen. Frist would...

If the Democrats were smart, they would take the bull by the horns and push for really tough lobbying reforms. But they’re not.

They should be nervous. It won’t be long before Bob Ney is indicted. It will probably take a little while longer for them to build their case against Tom DeLay.

It is outrageous that outsiders can’t file complaints, since Congress has demonstrated its unwillingness to police its own conduct.

It doesn’t seem to me that someone should get a tax deduction while they’re writing public relations memos about how people should be able to smoke in restaurants.

This reminds me of 1994,

It’s a reform bill in name only, and they’re hoping no one will notice.

The little trust Americans had in Congress will once again be destroyed by greedy and unscrupulous members of Congress that care more about their skybox seats and golf trips than upholding the law.

The House has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility to police itself. There is still no member of Congress, in either party, willing to file an ethics complaint.

[The Democrats] lost in large part because of the ethics problems. Now only 11 years later, we have the Republicans acting just like the Democrats and maybe even worse. Worse yet, they’re acting like nobody...

[Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, said,] The NIGC is either running a lackluster investigation or illegally withholding documents, or both. Regardless, the American public deserves to know what NIGC’s dealings were with these officials, including...

It is time for our representatives to take their constitutional obligation to police themselves seriously, an obligation that members of both political parties have ignored to the detriment of the American people.

If rooting out corruption in the House of Representatives is truly a priority for both parties, then we ask a member, any member, to put their money where their mouth is and file this complaint...

Lobbying is cost-effective only for those who can pay for lobbyists. Those with an opposing view won’t be heard as well as those with lots of money.

and corporations are strictly prohibited from making contributions to political campaigns.

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

This is a big deal,

I think it’s a little too cozy. It’s not an uncommon practice, but it is a concerning one.

Rep. Jefferson’s conduct shows a blatant disregard for the rule of law and the integrity of the House of Representatives. We urge a member of the House to ignore the long-standing ethics truce and file...

Special interests do get more and they do get what they pay for despite the constant denial that lawmakers can’t be bought,

But perjury is not a technicality,

[The timing thus raised questions about whether Frist had somehow traded on information he obtained in advance from the company.] Frist has been in the Senate for many years now, and the conflict is not...

The members can’t afford it. The people who are most interested in their campaigns are people with interests in Washington.