Mother Jones's Daniel Schulman reports that former GOP aide and lobbyist Scott O'Malia has been nominated once again to head the Commodities Futures T...
David Orr | Posted 11.21.2009 | Chicago
There is no reason why we cannot bring our lobbyist records into the 21st Century. We can and should do more to connect the dots between million dollar contracts and lobbyists who stand to profit from their approval.
Randall Amster | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
How many plans in existence today provide coverage for midwives, naturopaths, nutritionists, masseuses, or the like?
Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Larry Summers, the top White House economic adviser, on Friday accused financial lobby groups of using "death panel" type scare tactics to try to bloc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Max Baucus was paid handsomely (in campaign contributions) by the health care industry to deliver a health care reform bill that only the health care ...
Mother Jones | David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
During his confirmation hearing last year, Scott O'Malia, a Republican Senate aide nominated to be a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Com...
Washington Post | Brady Dennis | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama will head to Wall Street on Monday to try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system, an undertaking...
David Sirota | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The sequencing here is important: Pelosi makes her announcement and then just hours later, the fundraising invitation goes out. Coincidental? I'm guessing no -- these things rarely ever are.
Judith Ellis | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
These are desperate times and lobbyists are employed to undermine health care with the help of The Washington Post.
Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
The marketing executive at the center of a controversial series of Washington Post-sponsored dinner "salons" has resigned from the newspaper some 10 w...
Judith Ellis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
When I meet parents and children for the first time who have been foreclosed on, it is the look in the kids' eyes that tell the story of hardship.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Now that Congress is back in session, its members are busy with two jobs: Making laws and raising campaign funds. Good government groups insist the tw...
Jenna Staul | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs expressed some annoyance yesterday that lobbyists were clued in to the health care plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus...
Campaign Silo | Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
When Max Baucus circulated his draft plan earlier this week, the PDF documentation page (image) indicates that the "author" was ex-Wellpoint VP Liz Fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
McClatchy is reporting today on a new study by the Lewin Group, a health care research organization that purports to be independent but is actually a subsidiary of health insurance giant UnitedHealth.
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
California state assemblyman Michael Duvall has issued an apology for having a lewd and lascivious conversation that was picked up by a hot mic during...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Matt Yglesias takes an analytic look at the health care reform plan proffered by Max Baucus today, and while he beseeches his readers to remember his ...
The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...
washingtonpost.com | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Overall spending on lobbying has leveled off for the first time in a decade, according to disclosure data filed with Congress. Lobbying revenue for ma...
Brad Friedman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.
Adam Clark Estes | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Earlier this summer, The Washington Post published an eye-catching analysis of the revolving door between Congress and the health industry. The newspaper estimated that at least 350 former staffers and members of Congress are now lobbying their former Capitol Hill colleagues on legislation to change the health care system.
Larry Flynt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
You hear it more and more, sometimes in code, sometimes spelled out. We have reached the tipping point. The enemy has been identified. It's not left versus right in America. It's democracy versus greed.
Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.
Mother Jones | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business