Ethics Committee tells Curt Weldon to repay $23,000 for trip
The Ethics Committee was busy today. Outgoing Congressman Curt Weldon was advised that he had to repay $23,000 for a trip in January of 2003. The Committee leaders issued this statement:
The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), reviewed a trip taken by Rep. Curt Weldon and a number of his family members in January 2003. Prior to taking the trip, Rep. Weldon contacted the Committee to seek Committee guidance regarding whether the trip complied with gift rule provisions permitting a Member to accept travel and other benefits resulting from outside activities that are unrelated to official duties. Committee counsel advised Representative Weldon, through his staff, that he could not rely on that provision of the gift rule. Representative Weldon then sought a gift rule waiver from the Committee, but withdrew his request prior to receiving a formal written response from the Committee.
While Representative Weldon, through counsel, made a submission to us asserting that he and the trip sponsor concluded that the trip was unrelated to his official duties and was therefore not subject to certain gift rule limitations, we concluded that a number of factors compelled the conclusion that the trip was officially-connected. As a result, the payment by the trip sponsors for the attendance on the trip of several family members of Representative Weldon was prohibited by the gift rule, which at the time permitted such payment for only the Member’s spouse or child. We therefore concluded in the middle of this year, and advised Representative Weldon, that he was required to repay to the donors certain expenses of that trip, which exceeded $23,000.
Representative Weldon, through counsel, has stated his intent to make the repayment, and to notify us when the repayment has been made. We intend to monitor his efforts to repay the expenses and to make further public statements if necessary or appropriate.
Weldon was defeated last November. He was named one of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress last fall in CREW's report Beyond DeLay.
An object of my free
An object of my free will, however, is one which I have the physical capability of making some use of at will, since its use stands in my power (in potentia).
The communality of l
The communality of living ensures that citizens cannot secretly deflect.
That is, any impulse
That is, any impulse or activity which does not conform to and have its place within the workings of society must, for the good of that society, be absolutely and categorically disallowed.
Any one who would as
Any one who would assert the right to a thing as his must be in possession of it as an object.
While on the one han
While on the one hand the book overtly works to present us with a technically flawless plan for the organisation of society, on the other, it seems simultaneously to strive to make us aware of certain dubious features of that plan, which cannot help but limit reader enthusiasm in the approach to the whole.
For, should anything
For, should anything external to him, and in no way connected with him by right, affect this object, it could not affect himself as a subject, nor do him any wrong, unless he stood in a relation of ownership to it.
It is necessary firs
It is necessary first of all to summarize briefly the assertions of quantum mechanics.
In other words, a ma
In other words, a maxim to this effect--were it to become law - that any object on which the will can be exerted must remain objectively in itself without an owner, as res nullius, is contrary to the principle of right.
The paragraph comes
The paragraph comes about as a conclusion to a previous section describing the limits to travelling placed on the citizens of Utopia; Hytholoday spends some time explaining the nature of this particular set of rules, the reasons for them, and the repercussions of any disobedience to them computer file spyware system.
The paragraph comes
The paragraph comes about as a conclusion to a previous section describing the limits to travelling placed on the citizens of Utopia; Hytholoday spends some time explaining the nature of this particular set of rules, the reasons for them, and the repercussions of any disobedience to them pussy.
Syndicate this content
But the inadequacy o
But the inadequacy of the naive realistic and positivistic views competing with Kant to-day automatically forces the manner of putting the question in the direction in which Kant had started.We shall see that both assertions are inexact, and that the decisive point of quantum mechanics consists in the fact that it gives up the 'objectifiability' of natural processes.It is necessary first of all to summarize briefly the assertions of quantum mechanics.