Washington Babylon — April 16, 2009, 8:30 am
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A House Democrat from Indiana has conducted an extensive audit of his political committees, after a lobbying firm that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaigns closed down amid a federal investigation.
Rep. Peter J. Visclosky, whose ties to the PMA Group have come under scrutiny since the FBI raided its offices in the fall, amended half a dozen reports recently filed with the Federal Election Commission in an effort to properly identify contributors. But Visclosky’s review has not answered a key question in the PMA investigation: the rationale for thousands of dollars in donations to him and other lawmakers from a golf marketing director and a sommelier at a Florida resort, each of whom was once listed as a PMA official on FEC reports.
Meanwhile, Congressman Jerry Lewis of California, who had reported no significant legal fees for nearly a year, shelled out nearly $50,000 in legal fees in the first quarter of 2009. Something’s up.
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Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
