Waxman to Investigate Presidential Library Funding (Influence Peddling?)

[CorpGovActivist]

Full Committee Business Meeting, immediately followed by Full Committee hearing on Reforming the Presidential Library Funding Disclosure Process
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 10:00 a.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

http://oversight.house.gov/schedule.asp

It will be interesting to see the documents that emerge as the hearing nears, and to crosswalk donors to major contract awards during the Bush Years.

FYI...

- Dave

[shain from kane]

1. Another target for the terrorists.

Must protect his comic book collection at all costs.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. A Lot of the Docs Might Be in Arabic

My recollection is that the House of Saud was an enormous contributor to the Bush and Clinton monuments to self-aggrandizement libraries.

[CorpGovActivist]

3. Interesting Point: Should Foreign Contributions Be Prohibited?

There have been past efforts to amend the act covering Presidential libraries.

In 2002, this issue was taken up (some say as a dig to President Clinton): http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/h020502.html

The current law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode44/usc_sec_44_00002112----000-.html

To prevent the appearance that foreign contributions might influence foreign policy, maybe those should be precluded?

- Dave