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like magic. members of congress who spend their days arranging meetings for donors and constituents, raising money for themselves or other causes in their districts, as well as currying favor with members of the administration. in our fourth story, what sounds like business as usual for what could be any one of 435 elected representatives in the house now coming under intense scrutiny from a democratically controlled congress that had promised to clean up ethics issues. but so far, targeting only two lawmakers with actual charges, both of them african-american. the house ethics committee announcing charges against democratic congress woman, maxine waters of california, for her role in arranging a meeting in september 2008, between treasury secretary paulison and one united bank of boston, of which her husband is a former director, and in which he owned $250,000 in stock. the office of congressional ethics, an independent board, having initiated the case against miss waters, including

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