New research by the Center for Responsive Politics and Remapping Debate found at least 130 current congressional chiefs of staff and legislative directors were previously lobbyists.While a majority of the…
OpenSecrets.org has added new features to its outside spending section
A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows 44 states and the District of Columbia are projecting budget deficits totaling $125 billion for the 2012 fiscal year.With federal…
More than half of Ohio’s campaign money raised by legislators in 2010 came from lobbyist an Ohio Citizen Action study found.
The American Judicature Society released a report tracking states’…
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The Public Campaign Action Fund released this July “Advancing Healthcare Reform Through the Swamp of $187 Million in Iterested Political Money,” which examines how special interests and lobbyists are influencing elected officials in charge of reforming the healthcare…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Campaign Finance Institute issued a report that found “soft money political spending by 501(c) nonprofits tripled in the 2008 election.” CFI’s findings also included: 527 political group spending declined,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU asked “Will courts allow more transparency?” in a story about legal threats to transparency and disclosure laws that appeared in Politico.
MIDWEST —These reports examines campaign finance laws and the ways they’ve worked – or haven’t worked – to limit the influence of money on politics in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.State Reports Illinois report Michigan…
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