| beachmom has a great diary up on DailyKos laying out a fight on the floor of the United States Senate last year over a provision that would disclose the sponsors of earmarks. Nine Democratic senators, including Obama and not Clinton, resisted their own party leadership's efforts to kill the provision and eventually managed to ensure that the provision stayed in the ethics legislation. For more on Obama's record on ethics legislation in the United States Senate, I wrote a diary some time ago focusing on his amendment requiring lawmakers to disclose fundraising bundlers and his strong support of creating an independent ethics watchdog to police Congress. |
