Headline from May 31, 2006 Issue:
ETHICS
House Hearing Takes Hard Line Against DOJ Search of Hill Office
TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
Clarification
Headline from May 30, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
D.C. Circuit Sets September Argument In Case Eyeing Payments for
`Official Acts'
FEC ENFORCEMENT
FEC Levies $30,000 Fine Against Unsuccessful 2002 House Campaign
Headline from May 26, 2006 Issue:
ETHICS
Bush Intervenes in Jefferson Investigation, Orders Search Materials
Sealed for 45 Days
FEC
FEC Votes to Reject Staff Draft Ruling Requiring `Hard Money' for
Voter Contacts
Headline from May 25, 2006 Issue:
CONGRESS
Jefferson Refuses Pelosi Demand to Leave Ways and Means Panel
EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
IRS Says Campaign Activity Guidance Will Not Be Released Before
Elections
LOBBYING
Safavian Trial Begins With Attorneys Offering Different Views of His
Motives
LOBBYING
Conferees Appointed on Reform Bill as GOP Leaders Try to Move Measure
Headline from May 24, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
Freddie Mac's Record Fine From FEC Seen As Source of Worry for
Lobbyists, Noble Says
ETHICS
Senate Expected to Approve Cusick To Fill Long-Vacant Seat at Ethics
Agency
Headline from May 23, 2006 Issue:
HOUSE ETHICS
Jefferson Says He Will Not Resign, Deplores FBI Search of House Office
LOBBYING
Report Finds $100 Million in Contributions Comes Mostly From Top Tier
of Lobbyists
Headline from May 22, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
Safavian's Trial About to Begin as Judge Allows Broad Evidence of
Links to Abramoff
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
Former State Lottery Commissioner Indicted Over Undisclosed Payments
Headline from May 19, 2006 Issue:
FEC
FEC Ruling Says U.S. Subsidiaries Of Canadian Company Can Contribute
ETHICS
House Leaders Praise Ethics Panel For Moving Forward With
Investigations
PARTY FUNDING
Party Committees' `Hard Money' Receipts At $555.2 Million, 5 Percent
Over 2004 Level
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ENFORCEMENT
Former RNC Official Sentenced In N.H. Phone-Jamming Scheme
Headline from May 18, 2006 Issue:
ETHICS
House Ethics Committee Opens Investigations Into Activities of Ney,
Jefferson, Cunningham
LOBBYING
Hastert Pledges to Name Conferees on Lobbying Bill by End of Next Week
LOBBYING
Full D.C. Circuit Agrees to Rule in Case Interpreting Federal
Anti-Corruption Law
Headline from May 17, 2006 Issue:
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ENFORCEMENT
Executives of Hospital Firm LifeCare Plead to Campaign Finance
Violations
OHIO
Indicted Republican Fund-Raiser Noe Gets Hearing to Change Federal
Guilty Plea
TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
Correction
Headline from May 16, 2006 Issue:
ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS
Supreme Court Denies Bid to Fast-Track Challenge to BCRA Limits on
Political Ads
LOBBYING
House Committee Outlines Procedure For Trip Sponsors to Get Official
Approval
Headline from May 15, 2006 Issue:
EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
NAACP Considers Federal Suit to Terminate IRS Investigation
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Bopp Asks Supreme Court to Schedule Arguments in CCL Case by End of
May
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Fifth Circuit Ruling Says Louisiana Law Applies Only to `Express
Advocacy' Ads
KENTUCKY
Governor Charged With Patronage, Faces Three Misdemeanor Charges
Headline from May 12, 2006 Issue:
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES
Congressional Campaign Receipts Up 13% Over Same Period in 2004, FEC
Says
FEC
FEC Says U.S. Ambassador Timken Must Pay $6,999 for Exceeding Limit
Headline from May 11, 2006 Issue:
ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS
Prompt Supreme Court Appeal Vowed In Case Challenging BCRA Ad Limits
TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
FEC Laws Provide No Protection Against IRS Prohibited Activity,
Livingston Warns
TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
IRS Political Activity Complaints Expected To Rise as November
Elections Draw Near
OHIO
7.7 Million Social Security Numbers Released By Ohio With Voter Data
Provided Campaigns
Headline from May 10, 2006 Issue:
ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS
Three-Judge Court Denies Injunction to Block BCRA Limits on Ads in
Maine
FEC
FEC Inspector General Report Finds Gap of $1.2 Million in PAC,
Candidate Reports
ETHICS
Two House Republicans Call on Mollohan to Step Down From
Appropriations Panel
Headline from May 9, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
Plea by Volz Indicates Prosecutors Could Soon Focus Attention on Ney
CONGRESS
Group Using Medicare Drug Plan To Call for Ethics Changes in D.C.
Headline from May 8, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
Attorneys Skirmish in Pre-Trial Hearing Over E-Mails Between Safavian,
Abramoff
Headline from May 5, 2006 Issue:
FEC
FEC Set to Reject Staff Auditors' View Of Event Financing by
Independent PAC
HOUSE ETHICS
Pelosi Says Rep. Jefferson Should Be Investigated by House Ethics
Panel
Headline from May 4, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
House GOP Wins Vote on Lobby Bill With Support From Some Democrats
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Anti-Abortion PAC Agrees to Pay FEC $150,000 Fine for Reporting
Violations
ETHICS
Kentucky Businessman Pleads Guilty In DOJ Probe Involving Rep.
Jefferson
Headline from May 3, 2006 Issue:
LOBBYING
Campaign, Ethics Reformers Continue to Press for Alternatives to
Lobbying Bill
Headline from May 2, 2006 Issue:
ETHICS
Common Cause Seeks DOJ Investigation Into Whether Katherine Harris Was
Bribed
Headline from May 1, 2006 Issue:
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES
CFI Study Says Democrats' Funding May Put GOP Control of House at Risk
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Acquitted by Jury of Federal Charges
