10.30.2009 3:32 pm

Graves’ exoneration exposes battle in Congress over rules, turf

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

Graves

WASHINGTON — The vote yesterday by the House Ethics Committee to clear Missouri Rep. Sam Graves of wrongdoing exposed a messy internal dispute in Congress erupting at an inopportune time given disclosure today that dozens of House members are under an ethics cloud.

Graves, R-Tarkio, emerged unscathed (except…

Tags: Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, House ethics committee, House Small Business Committee., League of Women Voters, Office of Congressional Ethics, Public Citizen, Rep. Sam Graves, U.S. PIRG, Washington Post

10.28.2009 4:12 pm

In DC, Martin details ‘pathway to winning’

By Bill Lambrecht

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

Ed Martin in DC today

WASHINGTON — Nobody has sent Ed Martin to Washington yet, but here he was this afternoon declaring to a roomful of GOP funders and heavyweights how he plans to return as a new congressman from St. Louis.

Martin,…

Tags: Bill Lambrecht, Capitol Hill Club, Cassidy and Associates, Ed Martin, Matt Blunt, National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, Rep. Roy Blunt, Rep. Sam Graves, Rep. Todd Akin

Graves’ exoneration exposes battle in Congress over rules, turf

In DC, Martin details ‘pathway to winning’

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