Article: Senators' ethics bill is a sham Legislation inches toward real reform.

Article: Ethics Bill Restricts Lawyer-Legislators in Texas.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... their business activities under an ethics bill filed Wednesday. The bill by Rep ... Wolens, chairman of the House Select Ethics Committee, addresses longstanding concerns about ... request by Smith to set up a select ethics committee in the Senate. Dewhurst said he thought ...

Article: EDITORIAL: Senate Ethics Bill Slam this ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  March 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 90-8, an ethics bill that should fool ... a meaningful ethics bill. The Senate ... the toothless Ethics Committee, rather than ... approval" from the Ethics Committee. Sort of a ... crafting the Senate ethics bill. Senate Majority ...

Article: SEN. MCCASKILL JOINS OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FOR ETHICS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the future." The ethics bill (S.1), which passed ... Finally, the Senate ethics bill passed tonight would ... McCaskill said. The Senate Ethics Bill: Strengthens Gift ... advance approval by the Ethics Committee for all privately ...

Article: No Outcry About Lobby Scandal, Lawmakers Say; Republicans See ...
The Washington Post;  April 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... a relatively tepid ethics bill because their constituents ... Conn.), a former ethics committee chairwoman, said passage ... architect of the House ethics bill, said: "Many members ... strongly" that the ethics bill "is the right thing ...

Article: Coburn reconsiders 'guarantee' not to run: Months ago, he linked ...
Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  August 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 2010 if a landmark ethics bill becomes law. "Will ... legislative approval to the ethics bill. "I'll make a decision ... investigated, not by the ethics committee but by the U.S ... frustration with the ethics bill also was evident when ...

Article: ETHICS BILL GUTTED BY GOP
Targeted News Service;  March 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... yesterday's meeting of the House Ethics Committee, Republicans gutted the ethics reform ... House Floor Leaders and a member of the Ethics Committee, sit idly by as the Republicans gutted ... why Speaker Richardson is gutting the ethics bill, especially the section on conflicts ...

Article: Perdue signs state's 'strongest' ethics bill.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA);  May 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... he called "arguably the strongest ethics bill in Georgia history" Thursday, a measure ... Buford), chairwoman of the Senate Ethics Committee, said the new panel could begin work ... could affect their businesses. The new ethics committee will include five senators and five ...