Pelosi Fires Back at Report on “Soft Corruption”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 16th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Pelosi Fires Back at Report on “Soft Corruption”
Deirdre Walsh, CNN
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News' “60 Minutes” report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested could be “soft corruption.”The show looked at the investments of various lawmakers — including Pelosi, House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama — who reportedly bought stocks around the same time legislation involving those investments was being discussed.
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John Ashton, The Guardian
The lesson the world is learning the hard way from the financial crisis is that there is only one boat and we are all in it. To stay afloat, we need rules tough enough to stop systemic risks becoming systemic collapses. This lesson is as true for the environment as it is for the economy.A key battle in the campaign to build an effective system of global rules will shortly take place in Durban, where the UN climate negotiations reopen at the end of this month. The International Energy Agency has set the scene, with the timely warning in its new World Energy Outlook that we are way off track to…
