Amid all the turmoil over House ethics rules and Tom DeLay’s expanding assortment of scandals, the embattled majority leader’s Republican minions quickly resorted to the old “everybody does it” defense. “The things that Tom has been criticized about in one way or another every member of Congress could be criticized about,” declares Majority Whip Roy […]
Art Levine
Art Levine is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and a former Health Policy Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). He is the author of PPI's 2005 report, "Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System," and is currently working on a book on mental-health issues. He also blogs at The Huffington Post. Follow at ArtL7 on Twitter.
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The Super-Lobbyist’s “Friend”
This article is excerpted from an examination of congressional ethics that will appear in our June issue. Take pity on poor Bob Ney, who insists he’s just another victim of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public-relations consultant Michael Scanlon. Unlike the half-dozen Indian tribes that paid about $82 million to that scamming duo, however, the U.S. […]
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Confessions Of A (Former) Y2K Paranoid
Next time we face the threat of a worldwide apocalyptic technological breakdown, I’m sure my hoard of meals ready to eat (MREs), battery-powered lamps, and Eco-Fuel cooking equipment will come in very handy indeed. But on New Year’s Day, as I looked at my case of Millennium Gourmet dehydrated foods sitting untouched in my storage […]
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The Adventures of … Money Man!
Robert Torricelli, junior senator from New Jersey and the man leading the Democratic effort to regain the Senate, is on the move. Sitting in the back seat of a black Lincoln Town Car on the way to a speech at a Jersey shore hospital, he’s discussing his success raising money for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign […]