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Monica Youn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Last week, a panel of the D.C. federal court heard arguments in a case where the RNC is seeking to turn back the clock to a time before Obama's "small-donor revolution."
Doug Kendall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court will break up its summer recess to hear arguments in Citizens United v. FEC, over Hillary: The Movie. You may sense something important is going on. If so, you're right.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
The duo of Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley, raised $219,000 from health and insurance political action committees (PACs) from April to June of this year.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Here is my suggestion: Compel each congressperson to list his or her 10 major campaign contributors before every interview or public appearance.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
Most police officers in America do not require greased-palms for their services. But if one wishes to attend a chicken cordon bleu dinner with Senator Max Baucus of Montana, it will cost him $10,000
Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green
The critics of single-payer are either paid to tell you this, or are brainwashed by the multi-million dollar lobbying and advertising paid for by insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 08.25.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Facing the toughest re-election fight of his nearly 30 years in the Senate, Sen. Christopher Dodd boasts about snubbing lobbyists. ...
Bob Kerrey | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
You say you want to serve your country in Congress? Show me the money. Otherwise, you will be shown the door.
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
It's that time of the year again. Every quarter, just as the FEC reporting deadlines approach, politicians go on a mad scramble for last-minute donations.
Robert Weissman | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
There's no question that Wall Street is going to mobilize -- is already mobilized -- to defeat the administration's positive proposals.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
The battle ahead on financial regulation pits consumer interests against wealthy lobbying interests that have made a huge investment in campaign contributions.
Steve Clemons | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Today, I received the note from Senator Bob Menendez promising Obama-time for a select few picked from those who kick in five bucks to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Jay Mandle | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Advocates of publicly funded political campaigns are handicapped because changing the way electoral efforts are paid for is a "process" issue.
Jay Mandle | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
This legislation will not be adopted without a hard fight. The special interests who benefit from the "pay to play" political system will not willingly concede defeat.
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
For years, financial institutions like Bank of America and AIG donated millions to the very people who were supposed to regulate them. The result is obvious.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
With powerful Congressional leaders now behind public financing, the chances to roll back the pay-to-play politics norm in Washington, D.C. have never looked better.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
Have things changed so dramatically that Obama will have room to dump his biggest campaign contributers overboard? That question will be answered in the coming weeks.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
Did you know that Senators still file their campaign finance reports on paper, delaying the disclosure of contributors to their campaigns, sometimes for months?
Duncan Quirk | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Senators and Representatives are elected to represent their constituents, so why should Madoff and Stanford and others be allowed to donate to campaigns for which they are not constituents?
CNN | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
The Federal Election Commission announced Friday increased contribution limits for the 2009-2010 federal campaign cycle. Donors may now contribute $2...
Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
I am so enormously turned off by all the emails I keep getting from the Obama "campaign" asking me for more money! What are they going to do with this money?
James Love | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
Obama will soon be President, working with solid democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. He should use his power to advance consumer interests in ways that have been neglected for decades.
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
I and others will soon announce a large grassroots campaign aimed at channeling the amazing desire for change that Americans are feeling right now into tangible and fundamental reform of our political system.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is even worse. He shrinks Warren's statements about gay people down to a "disagreement," as if we're talking about ethanol subsidies.
Posted 10.19.2009 | Business