The power of public office carries with it the perennial desire to use the power for financial gain. If financial disclosure reports don’t paint an adequate—and importantly, accurate—picture of a government official’s financial interests, the public can’t know if those officials are acting impartially.
— Campaign Legal Center, 10/26/18

Like most databases, you only get out of them what was input.

For example, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) released their transactions for 2019 0r 2020.

Given the noise, it’s also telling who’s blown off the public’s right to know in 2019 and 2020 and declined to file a transaction report….

New Hampshire Senator Bernie Sanders (I)

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D)

New York Senator Charles Schumer (D)

California Representative Kevin McCarthy (R)

North Carolina Senator Richard Burr (R)

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler (R)

California Representative Maxine Waters (D)

California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D)

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar (D)

Washington Senator Patty Murray (D)

Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe (R)

Texas Representative Frederica Wilson (D)

Texas Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D)

Illinois Representative Rashida Tlaib (D)

New York Representative Jerrold Nadler (D)

Virginia Representative Don Beyer (D)

Ohio Representative Jim Jordan (R)

Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D)

South Carolina Representative James Clyburn (D)

Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley (D)

Virginia Senator Mark Warner (D)

North Carolina Senator Mark Meadows (R)

California Representative Barbara Lee (D)

Florida Representative Alcee Hastings (D)

Maryland Senator Steny Hoyer (D)

Illinois Representative Bobby Rush (D)

Utah Senator Mitt Romney (R)

New Hampshire Senator Susan Collins (R)

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R)

New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D)

Florida Representative Donna Shalala (D)

New Hampshire Senator Elizabeth Warren (D)

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine (D)

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D)

California Senator Kamala Harris (D)

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D)

Maybe some were too busy impeaching President Trump, but you get the idea and see the pattern.

As far as the pundit/media catcalls for Republican senators to resign, let’s be consistent (although we know that won’t happen) and acknowledge this as a bipartisan issue come back to bite….

President Obama quietly signed S. 716, which repealed a requirement of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (the bipartisan bill aimed at halting insider trading by members of Congress) requiring roughly 28,000 senior government officials to post their financial information online. Both chambers of Congress quickly — and near silently — approved the repeal legislation at the end of last week by unanimous consent, just before heading home to their districts.
— The Hill, 4/15/13

Let’s see EVERY Capitol Hill politician’s books. Seeing how well Democrats project, it’s a safe bet that outing a few Republicans is to mask the possible unethical activities of a whole lot more Democrats who blew off their opportunity to be open with the American people.

He’s about to be called on the carpet and his answers are going to be very interesting, that is, if he doesn’t plead the Fifth.

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.

“In his science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress.

Stock up on the popcorn, folks.

Just prior to a hearing at 10:00 a.m. EST, Senator Inhofe released a minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which he is ranking member. Senator Inhofe is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether there has been research misconduct or criminal actions by the scientists involved, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science.

Since the Climategate Files were released, the IPCC has been forced to retract a number of specific conclusions — such as a prediction that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 — and has been forced to confirm that the report was based in large part on reports from environmental activist groups instead of peer-reviewed scientific literature. Dr. Murari Lal, an editor of the IPCC AR4 report, admitted to the London Daily Mail that he had known the 2035 date was false, but was included in the report anyway “purely to put political pressure on world leaders.”

Based on this Minority Staff report, Senator Inhofe will be calling for an investigation into potential research misconduct and possible criminal acts by the researchers involved. At the same time, Inhofe will ask the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen its consideration of an Endangerment Finding for carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Federal Clean Air Act, and will ask Congress to withdraw funding for further consideration of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

While this may be the scam of the century, one of the co-conspirators should be the media (not Fox News) who failed to cover this, and teachers who blindly echoed the falsehoods. They were the usual cheerleaders, perpetuating false claims that sent sobbing elementary school children to bed with nightmares, adding a bogus movie to the school curriculum for mandatory viewing, created teenaged and college-aged activists, and seldom acknowledged their position could be questioned, even after the ClimateGate revelations.

The whole lot should be thrown in jail at the most, fired at the least.

As for Senator Inhofe, kudos to a politician that stood up to squealing environmentalists, Hollywood, lying scientists and academics because in the end, he was right and those doing wrong have been exposed.

Now the hard part: getting President Obama to admit HE was wrong.