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By David B. Brandolph, Bloomberg BNA
June 20, 2016
Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers have asked the GAO to investigate the financially troubled Central States pension fund's investment decisions.
Ten Democrats in the Senate and 41 in the House requested on June 20 that the Government Accountability Office review the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund's investment decisions going back to 1982, when the fund came under the supervision of a court-ordered consent decree.
By: 13abc (and many other news outlets)
June 17, 2016
They’re something every family with children need but many are struggling to afford them.
“The average cost of diapers is about 1,000 dollars a year,” Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9) said.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) was thwarted today in her attempt to restore $394 million federal funding to finance state-based wastewater infrastructure projects, called the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. This fund allows Ohio’s cities and counties to borrow from a self-perpetuating pool of funds to make improvements and upgrades to sewers and wastewater systems which ensure clean water for lakes and rivers, such as Lake Erie. Kaptur’s amendment was rejected 17 to 31 on a mostly party-line vote.
By: Nick Penniman, The Hill
June 14, 2016
This is a year of political rebellions. Donald Drumpf and Bernie Sanders are the two biggest examples. And one of the few issues that unites them is driving the other rebellion: a rejection of political fundraising.
Some members have compared the endless need for campaign cash to torture. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who wrote in the New York Times a few months ago that he spent 4,200 hours in the last 16 years asking for money, equated dialing for dollars to “waterboarding.”