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...
View ArticleLobbying 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...
View ArticlePaul 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...
View ArticleRenzi’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...
View ArticleRep. 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...
View ArticleDivided 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...
View ArticleMcConnell 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,...
View ArticleScalise 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...
View ArticleHealthcare 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...
View ArticleCampaign 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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