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Hysteria over personal financial disclosures

Posted by LegiStorm on Thursday, April 03, 2008

The House has worked itself up into hysteria over LegiStorm’s recent release of staffer personal financial disclosures. There are demands in Congress for a taxpayer-financed lawsuit against us. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/aides-private-info-exposed-2008-04-02.html.

One House staffer has even gone so far as to suggest that LegiStorm aided and abetted in the burglary of his house. This has gone too far. We have a solution for the mess of the House’s own making.

First, to be clear: read more ...

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