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	The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : The cash for questions scandal
		That some Members of Parliament routinely accept bribes to ask parliamentary questions is one of the worst kept secrets in New Delhi's corridors of power.
		In an intensely competitive milieu where television channels are ever on the lookout for sensational stories, the MPs who had devised the system of asking questions for cash were a ready target.
		The scandal also brings into focus the stark irony of providing MPs with blanket immunity that was evident in the JMM case, when the Supreme Court ruled that MPs who took bribes could claim legal immunity if such money was received in connection with what they said or how they voted in the House.
	www.hindu.com /2005/12/14/stories/2005121404511000.htm (417 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Laws at centre of loan controversy
		In part it was a response to the sleaze allegations which dogged the previous Conservative government, such as the "cash for questions" scandal, which effectively ended the political career of MP Neil Hamilton.
		During the course of the investigation, the police have also asked questions about perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
		Fundraiser Lord Levy was questioned on 30 January on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, the second time he has been arrested, but was also not charged.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4831018.stm (660 words)

	Conservative Party (UK)
		However, his first full term was beset with scandals.
		Many of these were purely about the personal lives of politicians which the media attempted to construe as hypocrisy, but the Cash for Questions affair and the divisions over EU were substantive.
		As the term went on, with by-elections being consistently lost by the Conservatives, their majority reduced and eventually entirely vanished.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/c/co/conservative_party__uk_.html (2701 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The Question Hour passed off almost peacefully, with little interruption, and the issue was raised during Zero Hour when member after member rose to condemn the episode and demand action against the guilty.
		Besides taking cash for asking questions in Parliament, some MPs were also open to the idea, and quoted their price, between a few lakh to Rs 10 lakh, to the reporters, for organising a petition, espousing NISMA’s cause, to be submitted in Parliament.
		While the bulk of the questions given to the MPs related to the welfare of the small-scale industrial units, there were several public interest questions like the SEBI inquiry into the 2004 stock market crash.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051213/main1.htm (1892 words)

	Irish premier seeks to defuse scandal - Boston.com
		Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has repaid business friends more than $100,000 in hopes of defusing a scandal that is threatening to force him from power, officials said Sunday.
		Ahern, 55, still must deal with many unanswered questions, particularly over a second cash payment he received in 1994 from a group of 27 Irish businessmen in Manchester, England.
		Ahern is scheduled to answer questions from opposition leaders about his secret cash receipts in parliament Tuesday.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/10/01/irish_premier_seeks_to_defuse_scandal?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News (513 words)

	CASH FOR QUESTIONS NELSON KRUSCHANDL HERSTMONCEUX EASTBOURNE HERALD HAILSHAM GAZETTE SUSSEX EXPRESS
		The cash-for-questions affair was the one of the biggest political scandals of the 1990s in the United Kingdom.
		However, Downey decreed that the three Fayed employees' testimony that they had processed cash payments to Hamilton amounted to "compelling evidence", though he did not accept their claims to have processed cash payments to the lobbyist Greer.
		It is bound to raise a whole raft of questions as to social issues, how the system works, who it protects, who it doesn't protect and what might have gone wrong within the family concerned.
	www.bushywood.com /cash_for_questions.htm (5752 words)

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		He is understood to be trying to throw all the heat and responsibility for the scandal back on the Prime Minister.
		The Prime Minister is said to have told detectives he did not have "full knowledge" of the loans or the nominations, while the peer had claimed Mr Blair did know of his dealings with lenders.
		The peer is alleged to have asked Sir Christopher whether he wanted "a K or a big P", believed to have been a reference to a knighthood or peerage.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/17/npeers17.xml (934 words)

	'Cash for questions' charge - smh.com.au
		The Leader of the Opposition, John Brogden, has been accused of being involved in a "cash for questions" scandal by accepting a $25,000-a-year consultancy role while serving as the Liberal's planning spokesman.
		During the debate on the urgency motion, Dr Refshauge and other Labor MPs questioned Mr Brogden's integrity and suitability to be the Opposition leader.
		"This is cash for questions - this is scandalous," Dr Refshauge said.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/13/1037080785825.html (537 words)

	Print Article: Emails put new spin on scandal
		Mr Brogden came under renewed fire over the "cash for questions" affair yesterday after the Deputy Premier, Andrew Refshauge, released a series of internal emails detailing the break-down in relations between Landcom and PwCL.
		Defending claims of conflict of interest last week, Mr Brogden told Parliament he could not be accused of acting on behalf of Landcom as the questions which he asked in Parliament had been critical of the body and its management of a development on an old navy site in Zetland.
		On October 16, the day the final email states that Landcom "needs to get new lawyers", Mr Brogden placed three questions on the parliamentary notice paper relating to Landcom's purchase of the old navy site at Zetland and critical of its handling of development guidelines.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/20/1037697740366.html (440 words)

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		And essential to that bargain between the sexes is his certainty that he is the father of the child.
		While there is no such question mark over motherhood because women bear the baby, fathering, by contrast, is a socially constructed institution.
	www.melaniephillips.com /articles (10684 words)

	U.K.'s 'Cash For Honors' Scandal , Larry Miller Reports Scotland Yard Eyeing Honors For Sale - CBS News
		U.K.'s 'Cash For Honors' Scandal, Larry Miller Reports Scotland Yard Eyeing Honors For Sale - CBS News
		When the Conservatives were last in power some of their MPs were caught up in a so-called "Cash for Questions" scandal.
		That was when businessmen with vested interests paid lawmakers to pose specific questions on the floor of the Commons.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/22/world/main2205655.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2205655 (750 words)

	Cal Thomas
		The Chandra Levy-Gary Condit obsession wouldn't even make the cut for a real English scandal, in a country that once had King Henry VIII and his six wives, only one of whom survived him.
		October 1994, Hamilton is accused of taking payments in brown envelopes from Fayed in a "cash for questions'' scandal and is forced to resign as trade minister.
		August 2001, the Hamiltons are arrested, questioned by police and released on bail.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/thomas081701.asp (765 words)

	Will there be a judiciary-executive confrontation? : World
		By ruling that the government can no longer bypass the judiciary by taking recourse to the Ninth Schedule for laws placed in it from 1973 onwards, the Supreme Court has put a spanner in the cynical ploy of vote bank politics under which the government generally provides preferential treatment to the numerically stronger communities.
		The verdict seems to have flowed directly from its earlier judgement approving parliament's right to expel the MPs caught in a cash-for-questions scandal.
		At the same time, the court asserted that it had the right to undertake a judicial review of parliamentary measures.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/19744.html (564 words)

	Talkin' Proper ~ Diary of a First-Time ESL Teacher (TEFL Net)
		I am not naïve enough to think that corruption doesn’t exist in English politics (cash for questions scandal etc); it just isn’t on the same scale.
		I admit my information sources may have their own political agenda to pursue (I read Thailand’s two main English language newspapers The Nation and The Bangkok Post) but the picture they paint is one of corruption, bribery and dishonesty.
		The EC have disqualified four candidates already (for varying reasons including one who had faked his degree certificate) but say their hands are tied as “cunning candidates secretly tricked voters to support them so it was hard to catch them red-handed.”
	www.tefl.net /~dan/018.htm (620 words)

	Cash for Questions@Everything2.com
		The original Cash for Questions scandal was a sting operation launched by The Sunday Times Insight team in the spring of 1994 designed to test the probity of British members of parliament.
		Somewhat confusingly the name has also been applied to the subsequent scandal regarding the lobbying firm Ian Greer Associates, the MPs Tim Smith, Neil Hamilton and Mohamed Al-Fayed the owner of the House of Fraser department store group.
		It had apparently been the opinion of Fleet Street for many years that there were members of parliament that could be bought.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1807507 (709 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Profile: Neil Hamilton
		Neil Hamilton's name first came to public attention over the cash for questions scandal.
		He went to court to try to salvage a reputation that had become synonymous with Tory "sleaze"; he failed leaving it in tatters.
		The former MP had wanted to clear his name of accusations that he had accepted envelopes stuffed with cash from Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed in exchange for asking parliamentary questions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1485089.stm (418 words)

	The Lobbyists' Scandal: The Secret World of Washington
		It all began in 2000 when the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians, grown rich on the operations of casinos on their tribal land, decided they needed some allies in Washington to help protect their wealth from competitors.
		Some even believe the scandal could mark the beginning of the end of this era of Republican dominance.
		Congressmen and their aides become lobbyists, cashing in their contacts for seven-figure salaries.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0630-20.htm (1717 words)

	Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : (no) cash for questions
		You may have heard of the cash for questions scandal in the UK over recent years.
		Well I'm not offering any cash but I am in Redmond in April and who knows, I may bump in to some Microsoft rock stars.
		This is more a request for action than just a question...
	blogs.msdn.com /stevecla01/archive/2007/02/25/no-cash-for-questions.aspx (587 words)

	Money in Politics Alerts for the 109th Congress
		October 23, 2006: In the Money Race, 'Third' is Dead Last: Without cash to spread their message, independent and third-party challengers once again struggle to compete against Democrats and Republicans.
		October 3, 2006: Foley Contributed Nearly $745,000 to Republicans: Florida congressman in scandal was a major donor to the Republicans’ effort to hold the House.
		May 30, 2006: Treasury Nominee Is a Major GOP Donor: Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson has contributed generously to Republicans—more than outgoing secretary John Snow.
	www.opensecrets.org /alerts/index109.asp (1610 words)

	Stung: 11 MPs take cash to ask questions in Parliament-India-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Turns out your elected representative may well have to be, well, coaxed into doing their job.
		A sting operation by a television news channel has caught 11 MPs taking bribe purportedly for asking questions in Parliament.
		The Congress has announced quick action against its Gwalior MP, caught accepting Rs 50,000 to ask five questions in Parliament.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1327921.cms (332 words)

	Online Extra: Jakob Nielsen on the Unwieldy Web
		Companies must stop doing brochureware and start answering customers' questions in plain language.
		That to me is a particular scandal, because people come to the site on purpose, to find something.
		It's not a broadcast medium like TV where you want to be glamorous.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_39/b3952418.htm (1687 words)

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