The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
Barbara Flynn Currie, the majority leader of the Illinois Senate, has been chosen to run the Blagojevich impeachment committee. She is very smart, seemingly very honest, and (I seem to...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... anyone Blagojevich sends while the criminal charges are pending.Impeachment committee chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie said today she takes Burris "at his word" about the sequence of events with his appointment. "Here's a governor who was arrested weeks ago . . . One of the charges is that he attempted to get a 'quid' in exchange for this 'quo,'" Currie noted. "Does anyone in their...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
... and State Party Chairman Michael "My Boy" Madigan. Madigan's front girl -- the smokin' State Rep. Barbara Flynn "I-Vant-to-be-alone" Currie -- requested the tapes for the committee to hear first hand as part of determining whether they should move forward with impeachment proceedings on Governor Hot Rod. It gets better... In the meantime, Hot Rod shifts into high gear and appoints...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
... talk, talk that shouldn't have been made perhaps. But not actions," Genson said Monday.But Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, chair of the House impeachment committee, said that it would be extremely significant if the tapes show Blagojevich offering to sign legislation for a campaign donation.A House committee was appointed to recommend whether Blagojevich should be impeached. If so, the...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
... talk, talk that shouldn't have been made perhaps. But not actions," Genson said Monday.But Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, chair of the House impeachment committee, said that it would be extremely significant if the tapes show Blagojevich offering to sign legislation for a campaign donation.A House committee was appointed to recommend whether Blagojevich should be impeached. If so, the...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
... talk that shouldn't have been made perhaps. But not actions," Genson said Monday.
But Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, chair of the House impeachment committee, said that it would be extremely significant if the tapes show Blagojevich offering to sign legislation for a campaign donation.
A House committee was appointed to recommend whether Blagojevich should be impeached. If...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
... that audio would be made public. "It would not be in closed-door session," said state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, the committee's chairwoman.In an impassioned argument to the impeachment committee Monday, Blagojevich attorney Ed Genson told state lawmakers they should apply stringent standards of impeachment despite Illinois' vague rules on the topic — and that by most standards,...
The Washington Post (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
SLIDESHOW Illinois Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, oversees the Illinois House Impeachment Committee Hearing at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. An attorney for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Ed Genson, told a House committee that there's no evidence the governor ever took any illegal action to auction off a U.S. Senate seat or pressure the...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
... had been no inappropriate contact with the governor's office by Obama or his staff.State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, chairwoman of the committee, said Sunday that Genson's request to submit the report would probably be approved. But she expressed skepticism that the report would prove the governor's innocence."Maybe in this particular instance someone didn't run a stop sign, but it...
NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, chairwoman of the committee, said Sunday that Genson's request to submit the report would probably be approved. But she expressed skepticism that the report would prove the governor's innocence."Maybe in this particular instance someone didn't run a stop sign, but it doesn't say they didn't run a different stop sign," she said.The House panel is scheduled...
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 28/12/2008
... more than a dozen witnesses, including Obama’s incoming chief of staff. State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie said yesterday the House committee received a letter from Blagojevich lawyer Ed Genson asking it to subpoena Representative Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, and more than a dozen others, including Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. Currie, the head of the committee, said she...
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
Republican members of the 21-member impeachment committee want Dem. Chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie to grant Blagojevich's lawyer's request to...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
Republican members of the 21-member impeachment committee want Dem. Chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie to grant Blagojevich's lawyer's request to subpoena incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
Ed Genson, attorney for embattled Governor Rod Blagojevich, has asked the State House Committee investigating Gov. Blagojevich on potential impeachment charges to issue subpoenas to several Obama staff members including Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel. State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, who is heading the committee, confirmed the request but it doesn't appear very likely it will happen...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 28/12/2008
... week to issue the subpoenas."The ball is in Mr. Genson's court," committee chairwoman state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, a Chicago Democrat, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "We're not interested in undercutting the U.S. Attorney's criminal investigation."Genson did not immediately respond to a call requesting comment Saturday on the committee's decision.Blagojevich was arrested...
