Financial firms, including those receiving bailout funds, are lobbying against financial regulatory reform. This is despite having their lobbying rosters... View Article
Continue readingMurtha challenger trounces incumbent in fundraising; outraises Boehner and Pelosi too
While the ethics scandals that have multiplied around top fundraisers and earmark recipients of Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., have yet to involve him directly, he now faces a challenge from a different direction: A well-financed opponent.
William Russell, the Republican aiming to do battle with Murtha in the general election, trounced the longtime legislator with an astonishing $2 million in campaign contributions raised--more than House leaders John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, more than double that of the next-highest grossing challenger, and nearly three times that of Murtha's haul of $712,000, the most recent campaign finance disclosures filed with ...
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Loaded Orygun has been working on getting bloggers access to city meetings, designated as closed sessions that only journalists are... View Article
Continue readingBailout beneficiaries give hidden ‘bundles’ to House Committee overseeing industry reform
As the House Financial Services Committee begins to consider financial industry reform legislation (discussion drafts started appearing on the committee's Web site on Sept. 25), will we see the same kind of hidden "bundles" flowing to members that we saw going to key members of the Senate Finance Committee from health care interests and their lobbyists? That one-two punch flooded Sen. Max Baucus' campaign coffers with more than $450,000 from 11 health care interests--and 109 lobbyists who represented them--from Jan. 2007 through the end of June, 2009.
To date, we 've found far fewer of these contribution clusters--in ...
Continue readingRecovery.gov recipient data just in
Recovery.gov posted information today showing that 30,383 jobs have been created or saved by the federal contracts that have been awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. So far, $16 billion has been disbursed by 9,100 contracts. The federal government is spending more than $525,000 spent on every job they saved or created.
The release covers just a sliver of stimulus spending: Most recovery money is in the form of grants and loans to the states; data from that spending--including recipient and jobs data--will be available at the end of October. So far, federal contracts ...
Continue readingRatigan Waves Sunlight In Frank’s Face
MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan flashes an infographic made by Sunlight’s Kerry Mitchell detailing the percentage of contributions from the finance, insurance... View Article
Continue readingTARP Lobbying Disclosure: What a Difference a Day Makes
Yesterday, I called the Treasury Department in one last ditch effort to find their TARP Lobbyist Contact Disclosure Forms. I... View Article
Continue readingChamber of Commerce Deploys Former Government Officials to Lobby On Financial Regulation
Billed as the biggest opponent of financial regulatory reform, the US Chamber of Commerce is deploying former government officials to... View Article
Continue readingThe TARP Lobbying Rules: What They Say And What They Mean For Transparency
In September, the Treasury Department released its TARP lobbying disclosure rules, nearly eight months after a press release heralding their... View Article
Continue readingThe upper chamber and the slower filing
With ten minutes to go before the midnight filing deadline, the only senator whose campaign finance report has made it through FEC.gov is Barbara Mikulksi. All available Senate filing summaries as of 11:50pm, as compiled by Sunlight, are downloadable here.
Darlene Fitzgerald Price, a former US Customs special agent gunning to replace retiring Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning, has collected about $18,000 this quarter, and spent about $8,000. Billy Parson, aiming to unseat embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign, has raised $23,000 and spent $22,000, incurring $20,000 in debt.
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