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RENZI ENDS CAREER IN CONGRESS QUIETLY, UNDER CLOUD

6 Jan 2009 // (AP) TUCSON - Members of the U.S. House will be sworn in Tuesday as the 111th Congress convenes, but Rep. Rick Renzi won't be among them.

The Arizona Republican has ended a three-term career beneath the same cloud of suspicion that surrounded him during much of his last year in office, under federal indictment and facing a criminal trial in March.

Exit, Stonewalling

4 Jan 2009 // Editorial // New York Times - True to its mania for secrecy, the Bush administration is leaving behind vast gaps in the most sensitive White House e-mail records, and with lawyers and public interest groups in hot pursuit of information that deserves to be part of the permanent historical record.

RICHARDSON WITHDRAWS NAME AS COMMERCE SECRETARY-DESIGNEE

4 Jan 2009 // Michael D. Shear // The Washington Post - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name from consideration as commerce secretary for President-elect Barack Obama, citing an ongoing investigation about business dealings in his state.

RANGEL PAYS PARKING TICKETS WITH CAMPAIGN FUNDS

30 Dec 2008 // Jonathan Allen and Richard Rubin // CQ Politics - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York has used campaign funds to pay $1,540 in fines from parking tickets in the District of Columbia in the last two years, according to federal campaign finance records and his office.

BUSH DATA THREATENS TO OVERLOAD ARCHIVES

27 Dec 2008 // Robert Pear and Scott Shane // The New York Times - The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether its new $144 million computer system can cope with the vast quantities of digital data it will receive when President Bush leaves office on Jan. 20.

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