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Capital Eye Opener, Sept. 18: Citizens United’s New Movie, Ways & Means’...

Your daily dose of what’s trending in money and politics: CITIZENS UNITED IS BACK: The group that’s become synonymous with the return of big money to politics is itself making a big return to America’s...

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Lobbying Again on Downward Slide in 2012

For the second year running, total spending on federal lobbying has declined. It’s only the third time in the last 15 years that overall spending on lobbying has declined. In fact, overall spending is...

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Paul Ryan’s Connections to Insurance Companies

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is back with a new budget proposal that’s not so different from his previous ones. Like its predecessors, it repeals the Affordable Care Act and...

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Renzi’s Decline Reflected in Personal Financial Reports

The real estate and insurance industries were among former Rep. Rick Renzi‘s (R-Ariz.) top donors during his three terms in office. But his illegal dealings in those industries led to his conviction in...

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Rep. Spencer Bachus, Popular with the Finance Sector, to Leave Congress

Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1992, announced today that he would not be running for re-election next year. A look at his top contributors shows...

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Divided We Stand

The state of our union is…riven. With 2013 going down as the least productive legislative year since the 1940s thanks to dug-in partisan politics, President Barack Obama reportedly will rely less on...

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McConnell May Coast on Tuesday, but the Money is Still Big

Matt Bevin was considered, at one time, a possibly serious threat to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). No more: When Republican voters go to the polls on Tuesday to select their nominee,...

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Scalise Victory Upends Conventional Wisdom on Leadership Cash

Rep. Steve Scalise with reporters Thursday after his election as majority whip. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) triumphantly took his spot as the No. 2 Republican in the...

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Healthcare lobbyists are no strangers on the Hill

UNITED STATES – JUNE 26: The U.S. Capitol is seen in a reflection on the side of an ambulance in Washington on Monday, June 26, 2017, as the Senate grapples with health care legislation. (Photo By Bill...

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Campaign funding from Health Insurance and Pharma blocks hopes for...

(JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont hosted a town hall recently to discuss the Medicare for All Act, during which he emphasized a conflict of interest around involving the...

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