GOP Lawmakers Introduce OMAR Act to Prevent Federal Candidates from Putting Relatives on Campaign PayrollPenny Starr 8 Feb 2021
Republican lawmakers in the House introduced legislation last week dubbed the OMAR Act to address the circumstances surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) paying her husband’s consulting firm $2.8 million during her campaign for a House seat.
Conservative congressmembers filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and now hope to prohibit enriching relatives through the campaigning process.
“For too long, lawmakers of both political parties have engaged in the ethically dubious practice of pocketing campaign funds by ‘hiring’ their spouses and laundering the money as campaign-related expenses,†Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said in a statement.
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