Chris Van Hollen

Disclosure For Kochs, Rove Comes Closer

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Van Hollen v. Fec, Karl Rove, 2012 Elections, Chris Van Hollen, Elections 2012, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Transparency, Video, Koch Brothers, 2012 Election, Federal Election Commission, American Future Fund, Chamber of Commerce, Campaign Finance Disclosure, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- One of the most consequential campaign finance loopholes affecting the 2012 race -- the one allowing big-money donors to secretly funnel...

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Will Democrats Embrace American Austerity? Crash This Party and See

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Austerity Watch, Bill Clinton, Fiscal Summit, Strengthen Social Security, Alan Simpson, An Economy for All, Chris Van Hollen, Pete Peterson, Austerity, Politics News

Maybe your invitation to billionaire Pete Peterson's "Fiscal Summit" got lost in the mail. Or maybe they really, really didn't want you there.

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Anti-Obama Group Wants To Hide Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Van Hollen v. Fec, Video, Karl Rove, Koch Brothers, Chris Van Hollen, Americans for Prosperity, American Future Fund, Federal Election Commission, Elections 2012, Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, Crossroads GPS, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The recent district court ruling in the case Van Hollen v. Federal Election Commission that requires groups spending money on certain el...

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One Step Closer To Disclosure For Kochs, Rove, Chamber

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Transparency, Video, Karl Rove, 2012 Elections, Chris Van Hollen, Koch Brothers, 2012 Election, Disclosure, Elections 2012, Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, Crossroads GPS, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A court ruling requiring non-disclosing political groups -- including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers' Americans for ...

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House Passes Student Loan Bill That Cuts Women's Health Program, As Boehner Rails Against 'War On Women'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Student Loan Interest Rates, Video, Chris Van Hollen, John Boehner, President Obama, Student Loan Fight, Student Loan, Henry Waxman, Student Loans, House Student Loans Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives advanced a bill Friday that funds cheaper student loans by cutting a preventive health care program -- spar...

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House Passes Small Business Tax Break That Helps Wealthy

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Republican Budget, Video, Small Business, Chris Van Hollen, Tax the Rich, Small Business Tax Cuts, Eric Cantor, Tax Breaks for the Rich, Buffett Rule, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A $46 billion tax break that would go disproportionately to the wealthy and add to the deficit passed the House of Representatives on Th...

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Corporate Personhood Cuts Both Ways

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Van Hollen v. Fec, Video, Citizens United v. FEC, Chris Van Hollen, Wisconsin Right to Life II, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Progressive activists angered by the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allowing corporations...

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Court Ruling: Rules Blocking Disclosure By Kochs, Rove, Chamber Invalid

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Transparency, Van Hollen v. Fec, Video, Chris Van Hollen, Koch Brothers, Disclosure, Federal Election Commission, Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, US District Court, Crossroads GPS, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Friday evening, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling that could begin the process of revealing the id...

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Republican Budget Represents a Bleak Future for America

Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 03.30.2012

All of us want to put America back on a sustainable fiscal path, but to do so everyone must be asked to pitch in. The Republican budget, however, places the entire burden of deficit reduction on the middle class, seniors, and the most vulnerable.

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WATCH: Fareed Zakaria's Plea To Focus On Poverty

Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Video, Childhood Poverty, Fareed Zakaria Poverty, Poverty, Steny Hoyer, Fareed Zakaria GPS, Chris Van Hollen, Julianne Moore, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Poor, Fareed Zakaria, Bill Frist, Impact News

Back on Feb. 1, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a controversial comment on poverty. "I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Ro...

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Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Amid growing concern over the growing influence of super PACs, congressional Democrats are set to introduce new legislation designed to ...

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If It Ain't Broke, Break It

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Politics News, Video, John McCain, Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Keith Ellison, Steny Hoyer, Chris Van Hollen, John Boehner, Payroll Tax Cut Republicans, Payroll Tax Cut Democrats, Payroll Tax Cut, Payroll Tax, Chuck Schumer, Payroll Tax Holiday, Republicans, Politics News

Our democracy is built not only on compromise, but on trying solutions from both parties. And with an economic crisis as deep as ours, we can't afford to ignore ideas that create jobs. Our government is not broken, but Republican ideology certainly is.

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Dems Try To Shame GOP With House Floor Stunt

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Video, John McCain, Payroll Tax Holiday, Chris Van Hollen, Steny Hoyer, John Boehner, Payroll Tax Cut, Payroll Tax Cut Republicans, Payroll Tax Cut Democrats, Payroll Tax, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- While House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) held a news conference Wednesday demanding that Democrats return from vacation to extend the p...

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Working to Eviscerate the Laws They Are Supposed to Support

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Transparency, Corruption, Chris Van Hollen, Disclosure, Fec, Secret Donors, Citizens United, Republicans, Politics News

The three Republican Commissioners on the six-member FEC have once again shown their disdain for the nation's campaign finance laws they are supposed ...

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Super Committee Plays The Blame Game

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Taxes, Super Committee Deadline, Debt, Congress, Chris Van Hollen, Patty Murray, Supercommittee, Super Committee Medicare, Bush Tax Cuts, Deficit, Video, Super Committee, Jeb Hensarling, Super Committee Taxes, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats exchanged barbs but little else Thursday as Congress' super-committee limped toward a Nov. 23 deadline wi...

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Super Committee Holds More Closed-Door Meetings

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Fred Upton, Chris Van Hollen, Patty Murray, Xavier Becerra, Jon Kyl, Dave Camp, Transparency, Video, Super Committee, Rob Portman, John Kerry, Open Government, Max Baucus, Jeb Hensarling, Pat Toomey, Jim Clyburn, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The six Democratic members of a 12-member super committee with extraordinary powers to shape spending over the next decade held another ...

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Howard Schultz and the Heartbreak of the Self-Hating Corporation

Murray Hill Inc. | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Howard Schultz, Chris Van Hollen, Murray Hill Incorporated, Starbucks, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, DISCLOSE Act, Politics News

As the first corporation to run for Congress, we have a special responsibility to defend the values the Supreme Court enshrined in its Citizens United ruling -- corporate greed, self-interest, hegemony and privilege -- against men like Howard Schultz.

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Super Committee Members Still Raising Money For Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Fred Upton, Sunlight Foundation, Chris Van Hollen, Patty Murray, Xavier Becerra, Jon Kyl, Campaign Finance, Dave Camp, Super Committee, Rob Portman, John Kerry, Jeb Hensarling, Pat Toomey, Jim Clyburn, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The super committee created by the debt limit deal to plot $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts is set to begin hearings in the next two weeks....

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The Super Congress's Super Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Becker | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Super Committee, Chris Van Hollen, Patty Murray, Lobbyists, Center for Responsive Politics, Slidepollajax, Politics News

All eyes in Washington are on the 12 members of the new congressional supercommittee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions over a d...

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Former Lobbyists Could Staff 'Super Congress'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.11.2011

WASHINGTON -- With congressional leaders having finalized their selection of the 12-member, bicameral panel designed to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in defi...

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McConnell Plan For Debt Ceiling May Be Final Answer, Insiders Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Deficit, Video, Jim Jordan, Chris Van Hollen, Debt Ceiling, Budget, Economy, Kyl, Mcconnell, Obama, Jack Lew, Podesta, Center for American Progress, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A key liberal insider and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) indicated on Sunday that the final debt ceiling deal will likely resemble something aki...

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GOP Demands Constitutional Debt Ban As Price Of Debt Ceiling Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Deficit, Video, Jim Jordan, Lindsay Graham, Chris Van Hollen, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Budget, Fox, Stimulus, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Archconservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-S.C.) on Sunday dismissed warnings from financial professionals that failing to raise the debt ceili...

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Mitch McConnell: Grand Bargain On Debt Limit Unlikely

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 09.09.2011

WASHINGTON -- Hours before a major White House meeting over the debt ceiling negotiations, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Sund...

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Democrats Turning On Big Pharma In Debt Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Medicaid Debt, Pharmaceutical Industry, Chris Van Hollen Debt, Henry Waxman, Chris Van Hollen, Medicare, Medicaid, Chris Van Hollen Budget, Medicare Debt, Nancy Pelosi Pharma, Pharma, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats have targeted pharmaceutical profits as a means of raising revenue as part of the debt ceiling deal, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-...

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House Dems Scramble After Obama Insists On Grand Bargain

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Debt, Deficit, Nancy Pelosi. House Democrats, James Clyburn, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, Chris Van Hollen, Debt Limit, Means-Testing, Bipartisan Debt Talks, Medicare, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday evening, many lawmakers were surprised to find out that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts would be on the table f...

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