1) The House Ethics Committee admonished Rep. Charles Rangel for accepting reimbursement for trips to a business-planned and funded event... View Article
Continue readingHealth industry lobbyists have hosted scores of fundraisers for summit attendees
An on-the-fly analysis by the Sunlight Foundation shows that 84 lobbyists who represent a combined 266 health care and medical association interests have hosted a total of 61 fundraisers--that we know about--benefiting the campaigns of 18 of the approximately 40 Congressional leaders in attendance at today's health care summit.
That's not including fundraisers hosted by the companies' and trade groups' PACs themselves, though they also host such events. Maybe these lobbyists just wanted to make sure these lawmakers had enough funds to pay their monthly premiums?
Here's the list, compiled by matching host names from PoliticalPartytime.org ...
Few members at the summit own healthcare stock
A quick analysis of personal financial disclosures of Members of Congress shows that very few of them present at the healthcare summit own stock in the healthcare industry.
Here's a spreadsheet with data from opensecrets.org.
Obligatory word cloud of opening remarks at White House Health Care Summit
Obama’s opening remarks Alexander’s opening remarks (created at Wordle and based on transcripts here).
Continue readingSunlightLive covers health care summit
The Sunlight Foundation has all hands on deck today providing context for today's bipartisan healthcare summit in real time. Stay tuned all day for updates.
A quick analysis of Center for Responsive Politics data shows that when campaign contributions to the group of roughly 40 party leaders present are tallied, the health professional, insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital and health services/HMO industries all rank within the top 16--meaning those tasked with reforming the industry have also relied upon it more heavily than almost any other to stay in office. (Lobbyists rank 7th.)
Top-contributing industries, 2009-2010
White House Visitor Logs Show Large Lobbyist Presence For Head of White House Health Office
Upon assuming the presidency Barack Obama set about creating an office within the White House to spearhead his effort to... View Article
Continue readingMore TweetGraphs for Health Care Summit
Overall word usage during the health care summit
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The health care summit between Democrats and Republicans will be livestreaming on our Sunlight Live page so everyone can experience... View Article
Continue readingHealth Care Summit Participants
Senator Harry Reid, D-NV, Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY, Republican Leader Senator Dick Durbin, D-IL, Majority Whip Senator Jon... View Article
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