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Today, CLC filed a supplemental complaint with the Office of the Inspector General concerning Secretary Ross's possible violations of the conflict of interest law. CLC sent an earlier letter to the Inspector General on the same issue on August 13, 2018.
Walter Shaub released 13 policy recommendations to insulate ethics program from political retaliation, strengthen transparency, increase effectiveness of agency oversight capacity.
CLC filed comments with the Philadelphia Board of Ethics regarding the Proposed Amendments to Board Regulation No. 1. Board Regulation No. 1 relates to campaign finance and CLC supports the Board’s decision to update the regulation.
CLC supports North Dakota's Measure One, which would increase the transparency of spending in state elections, reduce the undue influence of lobbyists, limit the misuse of campaign funds, and establish a state ethics commission. State voters will be able to vote on this on November 6.
CLC filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel against Donald M. Benton, the Director of the U.S. Selective Service System, for an apparent violation of the Hatch Act.
Today, a coordinated letter was sent to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The letter urged the representatives to support H. Res 1043, the Rice Reed Resolution, that was recently introduced by Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-New York) and Tom Reed (R-New York). This letter was sent as a coordinated effort between Business for America, CLC, Common Cause, Government Accountability Institute, Issue ONe, League of Women Voters of the United States, MapLight, Project on Government Oversight, R Street Institute, Stand Up Republic, Sunlight Foundation, Take Back Our Republic, and Taxpayers for Common Sense.
On August 17, 2018, CLC sent a letter to Chairman Chuck Grassley of the Judiciary Committee, about recent reporting that indicates that White House staffers have been required to sign nondisclosure agreements. CLC is asking that Grassley use his oversight authority to figure out whether these nondisclosure agreements complied with the anti-gag rule, and if not, obtain assurances from the White House that it will not seek to enforce them.
Today, a broad range of reform, conservative and taxpayer organizations joined with scholars to urge House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to strengthen the House ethics process. The National Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers for Common Sense and Judicial Watch...
Today, a diverse coalition of congressional scholars and watchdog groups urged House Leaders from both Parties to publicly commit to the continuation of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) for the 114th Congress and to do so well in advance of the coming elections. The letter to Speaker John...
The House Ethics Committee has eliminated the requirement for House Members to disclose their privately financed travel on their financial disclosure forms, according to National Journal. The Committee made this change without any public announcement whatsoever, and when it was discovered yesterday...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center and Public Citizen urged the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to make its process of ethics investigations more transparent and more accountable. In a letter to Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ranking Member Johnny Isakson (R-GA), the groups urged the...
Today’s decision is a huge setback for civil rights in our nation. It is citizens, specifically the nation’s minorities, who will suffer as a result the votes of 5 Supreme Court Justices. The Roberts Court proved again that it will not be deterred by Supreme Court precedent, the realities on the...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center urged Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) to resign from Congress or at the very least recuse themselves from all official matters related to the issues of energy or the environment and broader matters like the “fiscal cliff” due to conflicts of...
Groups of various political persuasions joined together today calling upon House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to reauthorize and appoint new board members to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), and for President Barack Obama finally to step up to...
The Campaign Legal Center today joined Democracy 21 in sending a letter to the IRS questioning why the agency’s lengthy list of priorities for the coming year does not include any reference to addressing the widespread abuse of privileged 501(c)(4) tax status by organizations that spent hundreds of...
Today’s nominations are an encouraging sign from an Administration that has allowed a long-dysfunctional FEC to sink to a new and disgraceful low. Over the last four years the Administration had offered only a single nominee as the terms of every sitting commissioner expired and the Commission...
Today, the Campaign Legal Center submitted comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rebutting a series of gross mischaracterizations of law made by two major trade associations seeking to avoid disclosure of their donors whose money is used for political activities. In their...
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling upholding FEC rules governing donor disclosure in The Real Truth About Obama (RTAO) v. FEC. The suit specifically challenged the “subpart (b)” definition of “expressly advocating” (11 C.F.R. § 100.22(b)), as...