Ever wonder what Kathleen Sebelius does when she isn’t
sentencing children to death, shaking down health care providers,
or violating campaign finance laws? Well, it seems she spends her
spare time, and a lot of taxpayer money, dabbling in illegal
lobbying. The Anti-Lobbying Act forbids
federal bureaucrats from using money appropriated by Congress to
influence “an official of any government, to favor, adopt, or
oppose… any legislation, law, ratification, policy, or
appropriation.” Sebelius evidently didn’t get the memo.
Specifically, it looks like Madam Commissar and her HHS minions have been using federal money to lobby state and local officials to “favor, adopt or oppose” countless initiatives involving everything from local zoning rules to ordinances concerning tobacco use to the imposition of new taxes on soft drinks. The cash they are thus spreading around comes from an obscure Obamacare trove called the “Prevention and Public Health Fund,” which provides Sebelius with what amounts to $12.5 billion in pin money.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/10/has-sebelius-violated-the-anti
Specifically, it looks like Madam Commissar and her HHS minions have been using federal money to lobby state and local officials to “favor, adopt or oppose” countless initiatives involving everything from local zoning rules to ordinances concerning tobacco use to the imposition of new taxes on soft drinks. The cash they are thus spreading around comes from an obscure Obamacare trove called the “Prevention and Public Health Fund,” which provides Sebelius with what amounts to $12.5 billion in pin money.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/10/has-sebelius-violated-the-anti
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