A South Dakota Moderate

The 109th Congress will go down for many things including an almost total lack of accomplishment but with the news yesterday of Ohio Republican Bob Ney pleading guilty to influence peddling, the 109th term will most likely become the second most scandal ridden session in recent memory behind the Abscam driven 96th Congress of the late [...]

Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley has resigned “effective immediately” only hours after being confronted over emails he sent to a 16 year old Capitol page.
Hours earlier, ABC News had read excerpts of instant messages provided by former male pages who said the congressman, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to [...]

It looks like the great plan envisioned by some on the right that involves getting back at Democrats for their successful attempt at keeping Tom Delay on the ballot has backfired.
It seems that these right-winger’s had thought that Delay would again win back his seat in the House because the Democrats, in their infinite wisdom, [...]

A federal appeals court has refused Texas Republican’s attempt to replace Tom Delay’s name on Novembers ballot with another GOP candidate.
The Democrats had sued to keep Delay’s name on the ballot even though he had since moved to Virginia in an attempt to give them a better shot at winning the seat that he had [...]

Democratic House member William Jefferson’s argument that he and other members of Congress are above the law was shot down yesterday by a Federal Judge in Washington.
Jefferson attempted to have the material seized from his Congressional office during an FBI raid in May returned because he contends that the search violated the Constitution’s “speech or [...]

The lobbying scandal involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff just keeps getting more and more ugly as the days go by. Yesterdays Washington Post details how Abramoff secretly routed funds through non-profit organizations with the stipulation that those in the organization lobby senior Interior Department officials on his behalf.
But of course there is no need for [...]

In part 2 of todays mentions of crooked Congressmen, it seems that House Democrat William Jefferson refuses to listen to those on both side of the isle calling for him to step down.
Jefferson, whom has yet to be indicted on any crimes, has been implicated in a bribery scandal that has seen a former aide [...]

In a goodbye speech worthy of mention alongside the week long goodbye during Katie Couric’s Today show departure, Tom DeLay said he had only one regret, he should have fought harder.
So lets see, DeLay is under indictment for campaign money-laundering in Texas, two of his aides have plead guilty to bribery charges in his self [...]

President Bush has now stuck his nose into the Jefferson document scandal by ordering that the files siezed by the FBI be sealed for 45 days.
The president directed that no one involved in the investigation have access to the documents under seal and that they remain in the custody of the solicitor general.
Mr. Bush’s move [...]

The story that ABC broke yesterday about Rep. Dennis Hastert being under investigation by the FBI has received quick responses by both the Department of Justice and Hastert.
STATEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
“Speaker Hastert is not under investigation by the Justice Department.”
Hastert has stated that the story was “absolutely untrue” and has demanded ABC [...]

I was wondering why Dennis Hastert was being so vocal about the FBI searching Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson’s Congressional office as part of the bribery investigation especially considering that they are from opposite parties. New information has come out which makes his reasoning much clearer.
ABC News is reporting that Hastert is under investigation by the [...]

Other than being one of many bad Steven Segal movies it is also what House Speaker Dennis Hastert thinks of members of Congress. Hastert, R-Ill,. was so outraged that the FBI had raided Rep. William Jefferson’s office that he went and cried foul directly to President Bush.
My opinion is that they took the wrong path,” [...]