"I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D Calif.) during the floor debate.
Senators Diverting Campaign Funds to Kin
Loophole in Ethics Rules Is One That the Senate Did Not Close Last Year
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 24, 2008; A04
Under long standing congressional ethics rules, corporations, unions and other large organizations cannot directly pay senators stipends. But their contributions to senators' election campaigns can be paid without limit to the children, spouses, in laws and other relatives of the lawmakers, in a practice that has aroused controversy but is fully legal.
Since 2000, at least 20 members of the Senate dipped into their campaign contributions and wrote more than half a million dollars in checks to their own relatives, typically as payment for fundraising and other campaign work, according to a new report by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
BOXER TAKES HER CAMPAIGN BRIBES AND LAUNDERS THEM THROUGH HER SON’S OFFICE. SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MARRIED TO PIMP RICHARD BLUM!
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D Calif.), for example, paid her son Douglas $320,409.17 in campaign donations through his company Douglas Boxer and Associates from 2001 to 2006, CREW found. Douglas Boxer is a lawyer and a 10 year veteran of her political team, a Boxer spokesman said.
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