Exceptional House Plans - House reform panel aims to restore integrity

House reform panel aims to restore integrity
Morning Call - Our task is to recommend reform measures to the Speaker and the full House. The well-documented abuses of the last decade are a direct result, in part, of House Rules that made these abuses permissible. By recommending significant changes to the House

Smith says he favors Fair Share deal
Times-Republican - religious reasons can designate those funds to go to another organization, which can then turn them over to a suitable charity, he added. The bill was expected to pass through the House Labor Committee Monday afternoon. Floor debate by the full House

MADD pulls U-turn on Atkins case
Delmarva Daily Times - If it finds Atkins in violation, the committee could recommend that the full House suspend, expel, censure, reprimand or fine him, or level "any other sanction determined by the committee to be appropriate." jlmiller@delawareonline.com 302-678-4271

House debate will revisit some ideas its reform panel voted down
Philadelphia Inquirer - The next big test for advocates comes Monday, when the full House is scheduled to take up the commission's proposals - along with 42 amendments filed by state representatives last week. The commission's package would, most notably, increase the rank

Last Hurrah for a Gay Playground
New York Times - He said on Saturday that he was expecting a full house it holds about 2,300 people at a time for the final night. We ll be letting them in in shifts, from 10 at night until 9 in the morning, he said. I used to always go home at 2 a