Financial Services Committee Members Drowning In Donations From Industries They Oversee Read more

[AllentownJake]

As attention turns to the House Financial Services Committee's attempts at increasing regulation on the financial industry, the Sunlight Foundation's Paul Blumenthal took a look at which industries are contributing the most to members of the committee.

According to Blumenthal's analysis of Center for Responsive Politics data, 27 committee members have received over a quarter of their contributions from the finance, insurance and real estate industries this year. Of those 27, 12 have received more than 35 percent of their contributions in 2009 from those sectors.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/14/financial-services-commit_n_320899.html

[inna]

1. we should call it what it is - institutionalized bribery.

Why this grotesque travesty of justice remains legal is absolutely beyond me; but I'm afraid nothing is going to change until some meaningful election reform takes place.

[angstlessk]

2. THE biggest problem is that they ARE the lawmakers...they MAKE the laws

and they will NEVER, EVER, EVER make a law that disenfranchises their power to stay in power!