Tag Archive: Mick Mulvaney

This Week in Conflicts: Vietnam, encouraging lobbying, and what happens if Mueller or Rosenstein are fired

by Lynn Walsh May 3, 2018 9:22 am

This week, a look at how a call to Vietnam from President-elect Donald Trump originated, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tells the banking industry to lobby lawmakers and thousands are preparing to protest if President Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller or Rod Rosenstein.

Jim DeMint’s possible successors: influence profiles

by Keenan Steiner

investigations

Dec 11, 2012 6:16 pm

Rep. Tim Scott, the frontrunner to replace retiring Sen. Jim DeMint, owned an AllState insurance branch before being elected to congress. His biggest campaign donor has been the conservative Club for Growth.

House freshmen: New members find new earmarks?

by Ryan Sibley

investigations

Aug 16, 2012 8:25 am

*L-R:Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.; Tom Reed, R-N.Y.; Robert Dold, R-Ill.; Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.*

More than two dozen first-term House members, part of an enormous freshman class swept into office on an anti-incumbent tide of disgust over Washington insider dealing, have introduced a combined 263 bills designed to benefit the bottom lines of hometown corporations.

An analysis of campaign finance records by the Sunlight Foundation shows that some of the corporations that stand to save money from bills aimed at temporarily suspending tariffs on products that the firms import are also campaign contributors to the members of Congress introducing ...