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Drone Lobbyists Buzzing Capitol Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Congress, Video, Faa, Lobbying, Campaign Contributions, Lobbyists, Dayton, Uavs, Drone Strikes, Money in Politics, Unmanned Drones, Drones, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but lobbyists for the industry that develops and manufactures the drones...

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Wall Street to Obama: Thanks for Saving Our Jobs and Bonuses, Now F*** Off

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Dodd-Frank, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Obama Financial Reform, Glass-Steagall, Campaign Contributions, Obama Reelection, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Politics News

Now that President Obama's views on gay marriage have "evolved," it's time for his views on Wall Street to likewise "evolve" and for Obama to forcefully campaign to break the stranglehold of Too Big To Fail banks on the economy.

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Bank of America Targeted By Protesters And Investors As SEC Weighs Political Spending Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- As the Securities and Exchange Commission considers requiring corporations to disclose their political spending to shareholders, a coali...

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Massachusetts Candidate Declines All Contributions

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Massachusetts Legislature, Video, Campaign Finance Reform, Massachusetts Campaign Finance, Campaign Contributions, Timothy Toomey, Massachusetts-Politics, Mike Connolly, Ben Cannon, Campaign Finance, Politics News

An independent candidate running an uphill campaign for the Massachusetts House of Representatives has vowed not to accept campaign contributions in h...

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Payday Lenders Know You Gotta Spend Money To Make Money

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Payday Lending, Payday Lenders, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Ftc, Campaign Contributions, Cfpb, Elections 2012, Payday Loans, Richard Shelby, Spencer Bachus, Jeb Hensarling, Federal Trade Commission, Video, Business News

Consumer advocates in Washington have pledged to battle payday lenders, the quick-cash loan shops that often charge ruinously high interest rates to p...

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Why Rural Senators Want A Big Nuclear Arsenal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Russia, Elections 2012, Icbm, Arms Control, Navy, Icbm Coalition, New Start Treaty, Air Force, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Video, Montana Senate 2012, Nuclear Weapons, Campaign Contributions, North Korea Nuclear Program, Pork Barrel Spending, Jon Tester, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's failed rocket launch and new arms talks with Iran have thrust the issue of nuclear proliferation back into the headlines. ...

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The Republican Path to National Failure

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Social Security, Global Economy, Wealthy, Middle Class, Presidential Election, Romney, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Obama, Rich, Citizens United, Tax Reform, Democrats, Santorum, Barack Obama, Gingrich, Education, Tax Cuts, Financial Crisis, Poor, Medicare, Republicans, Health Care, Income Inequality, Inequality, Campaign Contributions, Wealth Inequality, Politics News

From immigration to health care and education reform, the Republicans are arguing for restricting access not only to the poor, but chiefly to the middle class. At the same time, they are arguing for a greater concentration of wealth among the elites.

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WATCH: California COULD Have Chosen GOP Candidate

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: California GOP Primary 2012, George Skelton, Gop Primary, Video, GOP California, California Campaign, Dan Walters, Campaign Contributions, California-Primary-2012, Gop Primary 2012, California Gop Primary, California Campaign Contributions, Republican California, Romney California, Los Angeles News

No one wants to feel like an ATM for anyone else. Unfortunately, that's just what California has been for political candidates for years. And Calif...

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Conscience and a Short Run for Congress

Doug Demeo | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Nomi Prin, Michael Pollan, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, Richard Cizik, Money in Politics, Jeffrey Madrick, Candidacy, Campaign Contributions, Environment Policy, New Jersey Politics, New Jersey State Government, Energy Policy, New York News

If money were not such a factor, more common, good-minded men and women might be willing to give congressional candidacy an honest shot.

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How Much Do Corporate Tax Dodgers Pay For Loopholes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Corporate Tax Dodgers, Congress, Loopholes for Sale, Campaign Contributions, Dirty Thirty, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Loopholes, Politics News

It's one of the age-old Washington mind-benders: How is it possible that more than two dozen major U.S. companies post enormous profits and pay no tax...

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America's Gulag: The Money (in Politics) Behind Prison Privatization

Nick Penniman | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Geo Group, State Prisons, Jan Brewer, American Legislative Exchange Council, Lobbying, Ohio, Corrections Corporation of America, John Kasich, Arizona, United Republic, Campaign Contributions, Prison Reform, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Prison, Prisons, Private Prisons, Politics News

If we are to reform the prison system, and fix the other Big Problems, we must first reform the lobbying and campaign financing systems.

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Obama To Return Donations Tied To Fugitive

AP | By KEN THOMAS | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Campaign Donations, Chet Culver, Gordon Fischer, 2012 Election, Campaign Contributions, Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, Elections 2012, Democratic National Committee, Barack Obama 2012, Alberto Rojas Cardona, Carlos Cardona, Barack Obama, Ben LaBolt, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's campaign is returning about $200,000 in contributions collected by family members of a Mexican casino owner who...

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Actually, Corporations That Lobby and Make Campaign Contributions Get Special Benefits

Steven Strauss | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Newt Gingrich, Lobbyists, Congress, Republican Party, Corporate Campaign Contributions, Congress Lobbying, Lobbying, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

While members of Congress assure their constituents that money spent lobbying them does not influence their judgment, 75% of all Americans believe it does. Recent academic studies support the public's concern.

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The Corporate Pledge of Allegiance

Robert Reich | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Citizens United, Corporate Campaign Contributions, Corporate Pledge of Allegiance, Robert Reich, Corporate Campaign Finance, Campaign Finance, Campaign Contributions, Business News

If the Supreme Court and the GOP insist big corporations are people and want to treat them as American citizens, then why not demand big corporations take a pledge of allegiance to the United States? Here is what it might look like.

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Unlimited Contributions Is Not the Answer to Unlimited Contributions

Nick Nyhart | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Fair Elections, Super PACs, Campaign Finance, Campaigning, Campaigning Reform, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

Our elections are increasingly funded and controlled by too few special interests. With super PACs and other outside groups taking in and spending unlimited checks, often from anonymous sources, the voices of everyday people are already being drowned out by wealthy special interests.

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Perry's Biggest Donor MIA From Campaign Finance Reports

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Mike Toomey, Super Pac, Karl Rove, Make US Great Again, Video, Campaign Contributions, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Bob Perry, American Crossroads, Rick Perry, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry's recently filed campaign finance report for his presidential bid shows that the governor has raised $17.2 million...

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GOP Senator Accuses Warren Of Ties To Special Interests

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Country-First-Pac, Video, John McCain, Wall Street, Campaign Contributions, Fundraising, Public Campaign Action Fund, Massachusetts Senate Race, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a fundraising email sent on behalf of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) on Tuesday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accuses Brown's likely oppone...

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D'oh! Homer Simpson Donates To Buddy Roemer

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Video, Homer Simpson, Campaign Fundraising, 2012 Election, 2012 Republican Candidates, Campaign Contributions, Buddy Roemer 2012, Homer Simpson Buddy Roemer, Buddy Roemer, Elections 2012, Buddy Roemer Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Homer Simpson may have tried to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, but he's apparently switched his allegiance to former Louisiana Gov. Budd...

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Kinde Durkee's Alleged Fraud Continues to Take Its Toll on California Politicians

Jessica Levinson | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Fraud, Corruption, Politics, California, Legal Defense Funds, Kinde Durkee, Campaign Contributions, Fair Political Practices Commission, Ann Ravel, Fppc, Politics News

The effects of the stunning fall from grace and subsequent arrest on September 2nd of veteran campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee continue to ripple throughout the California political community.

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Court Records, Depositions Show Mitt Romney May Have Saved One Job: Rick Perry's

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In an increasingly bitter Republican presidential primary, Gov. Rick Perry has made his record of job creation a top selling point for t...

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Kinde Durkee Clients Could Struggle To Replace Stolen Funds

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Fraud, Embezzlement, California, Durkee & Associates, Susan Davis, Kinde Durkee, Campaign Contributions, California Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein, 112th Congress, Loretta Sanchez, Jose Solorio, Durkee & Associates Scandal, Politics News

Clients of Kinde Durkee, the Democratic campaign treasurer who was arrested by the FBI on allegations of fraud, may struggle to replace the money they...

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Fix Our Campaigns to Fix Our Economy

Bob Edgar | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Super Committee, Poverty, Campaign Finance, Political Campaigns, Capital Gains Taxes, Super PACs, Public Financing, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

Big-money groups are ready and eager to spend millions to preserve the status quo. We must find a way to let candidates who dare to stand up to big money compete and win at the polls.

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Scandal-Ridden Firm Ordered To Stop Work

AP | By MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 11.13.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- California regulators Tuesday ordered a company tied to hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing political funds to stop providing a...

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House Democrats Call On White House To Sign Campaign Transparency Order

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Transparency, Campaign Finance Reform, Disclosure, Campaign Contributions, Elections 2012, Anna Eshoo, 112th Congress, Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, US Chamber of Commerce, American Crossroads Fundraising, Barack Obama, Crossroads GPS, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of 60 House Democrats led by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) is urging the White House to sign a draft executive order that would req...

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Politically-connected LightSquared wins approval for wireless Internet plan despite GPS disruption concerns

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Fcc, Politics News, Politics, Gps, Obama Bundlers, Campaign Contributions, Barack Obama, Iwatch News, Technology News

By John Aloysius Farrell and Fred Schulte, iWatch News When the Federal Communications Commission granted LightSquared Inc. expedited approv...

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