Tag: Ethics

BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 06: U.S. National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers meet with Chinese Communist Party's Central Organization Department Minister Li Yuanchao at the Great Hall of the People on September 6, 2010 in Beijing, China. Summers plans to visit China from September 5 to 8. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Nominating Larry Summers may require Obama skirting his own ethics rules — again

Timothy P. Carney · September 12, 2013 4:00 am

Ethics Committee will continue to look at 3 cases

Henry Jackson · September 11, 2013 11:34 pm

Ken Cuccinelli returns gifts from embattled Virginia businessman

Steve Contorno · September 10, 2013 4:00 am

TX Tribune: Pitts says he wrote recommendation letter for son

Washington Examiner · September 4, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama and his successors in the Oval Office are not obligated to make public the names of individuals visiting the White House, according to a decision of the federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia made public Friday. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Appeals court says White House visitor logs can be kept from public

Mark Tapscott · August 30, 2013 4:00 am

A government ethics and accountability group wants to know what the Department of Justice is hiding. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

CREW sues to make Justice Department unit’s opinions public

Kelly Cohen · August 29, 2013 4:00 am

Tony Podesta bought 131 C St SE in 2009 for $1.57 million.ÃÂ (Photo by Wikipedia user GrapedApe, used under a Creative Commons license)

Tony Podesta hires Mary Landrieu’s husband to sell lobbying townhouse

Timothy P. Carney · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

America needs to hear Ashton Kutcher’s message

Cal Thomas · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The Great Healthcare Cashout: At least 30 Obamacare authors on K Street

Timothy P. Carney · August 26, 2013 12:00 am

FILE - In this May 9, 2013 file photo, Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, attends a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Acquario is among hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states who get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states

Associated Press · August 25, 2013 4:00 am

EDITOR’S NOTE: American Banker and ‘drive-by journalism’

Mark Tapscott · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told a green-energy lobbyist in 2009 to email her personal account, an apparent violation of open-government rules. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How Lisa Jackson skirted Obama’s good-government pledge

Timothy P. Carney · August 17, 2013 4:00 am