‘Straw’ Donors Fueled Wade

By John Bresnahan
Roll Call Staff

Feb. 27, 2006, 12 a.m.

The guilty plea on Friday by Mitchell Wade, a defense contractor who paid more than $1 million in bribes to former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), has raised new questions about Wade’s relationship with Reps. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) and Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) and the tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions he steered to the two GOP lawmakers.

Stier: Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill

July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article