Of Glass Houses and Petards
I think Ms Pelosi does not have much confidence in our intelligence...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) filed delinquent reports Friday for three trips she accepted from outside sponsors that were worth $8,580 and occurred as long as seven years ago, according to copies of the documents.
Aww—iddn’t dat cuuuute? She thought we wouldn’t notice. Like a cat covering on a linoleum floor.
...The unreported trip was a week-long 1999 visit to Taiwan, paid for by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, for “meetings with government, military and business officials,” according to a filing Pelosi signed June 30. The flights cost $3,400 each for Pelosi and her husband. The hotel cost was $940. The sponsor, which has picked up trips for leaders of both parties, paid $300 for meals. [$8,040 e-C]
“The Chinese government’s control of CNOOC made the bid possible, not the free market,” said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
On H Res. 344, Pelosi did not vote.
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that--
(1) the Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation, through control of Unocal Corporation obtained by the proposed acquisition, merger, or takeover of Unocal Corporation, could take action that would threaten to impair the national security of the United States; and
(2) if Unocal Corporation enters into an agreement of acquisition, merger, or takeover of Unocal Corporation by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the President should initiate immediately a thorough review of the proposed acquisition, merger, or takeover.
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Part Deux
apparently “everyone” is doing it
The filing is among hundreds of revisions from members of both parties who have amended missing or incomplete reports as scrutiny of lawmaker travel has intensified. ...Committee members have shown no appetite for taking up all those cases and are considering an amnesty for reporting violations, although not for serious matters such as accepting a trip from a lobbyist, which House rules forbid.
*cough*Comrade PELOSI*cough*
Ms Comrade Pelosi’s perfidy aside, this is a problem that desperately needs the light of day.
How much longer are we stuck with this duplicitous moron - when does she term-limit out?
Posted by -keith in mtn. view on 07/06/05 at 06:45 AMWe have federal term limits? Pelosi oughta be the Poster Hag for that law....
Posted by Claire on 07/06/05 at 08:44 AM
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