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Dothan Eagle
April 29, 2018
In 1995, I wrote a book, titled "Speaking Freely" (published by the Center for Responsive Politics) in which 25 former Democratic and Republican senators and representatives explained precisely that. Premise: I'd told the ex-members that, since they were no longer in politics, they could finally speak freelyÃâà...
Indianapolis Star
April 29, 2018
About half of Pence's money has come from outside Indiana, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Recent out-of-state donors include GOP megadonor Foster Friess who gave Pence the maximum $5,400 contribution this month. Get more politics news: Sign up for IndyStar's HoosierÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 28, 2018
The NRA's greatest strength is viewed as its passionate and engaged five million members, said Sarah Bryner, a research director at the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in politics. “The NRA as a political spender is no slouch,” Bryner said. “Money matters.
Center for Responsive Politics
April 28, 2018
Since his first bid for Congress in 2010, Pompeo has received $400,500 from Koch Industries — $335,500 from individual employee contributions and $65,000 from its corporate PAC, Center for Responsive Politics data shows. Each election cycle leading up to his confirmation as CIA director in 2017,Ãâà...
Indianapolis Star
April 28, 2018
Sarah Bryner, research director for the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics which tracks campaign contributions, said voters have the right to know who is funding advertisements so they can decide if ads should matter to them. “It's increasingly the case that mega donors and very wealthy individualsÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
April 27, 2018
Spurred on by the prospect of President Trump's newly imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, lobbying from the steel production industry ticked up 31 percent in the first quarter of 2018 over the same period last year. The tariffs, implemented in March with the purpose of revitalizing the AmericanÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
April 27, 2018
The Center for Responsive Politics identified PACs that have spent at least $100,000 so far in the 2018 cycle, at least half of which went to “fundraising” as identified by CRP. (We assign expenditures to categories based on information disclosed in FEC filings, as described here). Spending on fundraising isÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
April 13, 2018
The government awarded $25.4 billion in federal contracts to women-owned businesses in 2017. That marked a record high for those businesses. That money only made up 5 percent of the $508.4 billion in federal contracts awarded that year, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of contract data onÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
April 12, 2018
Facebook lobbyists have donated nearly $600,000 since 2013 to the lawmakers who questioned company CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis shows. In 2017, Facebook hired 30 outside lobbyists who alone gave $148,000 last year to the Senate and HouseÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
April 5, 2018
As the final weeks of the 2016 elections ticked down, voters in swing states like Nevada and North Carolina began seeing eerie promotional travel ads as they scrolled through their Facebook feeds or clicked through Google sites. In one, a woman with a French accent cheerfully welcomes visitors to theÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
April 1, 2018
All Republicans representing Iowa and Nebraska on Capitol Hill have received support from the NRA, ranging from a few thousand to millions of dollars, based on data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Simple dollar figures can be misleading, however. The really eye-popping figures next toÃâà...
WLRN
March 31, 2018
The Center for Responsive Politics checked with the Federal Election Commission and found that spending in Florida Senate races has jumped significantly since the year 2000 – and it was bigger than ever in 2016. Those Senate races spent just over $19 million in the year 2000. In 2016, that numberÃâà...
WMTV
March 29, 2018
However, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending, tracked itemized contributions (donations of $200 or more by an individual) in the days before and after the shooting. According to their data, in the two weeks after the shooting, itemized contributions to the NRAÃâà...
WDSU New Orleans
March 29, 2018
But the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending, tracked itemized contributions, which are donations of $200 or more by an individual, in the days before and after the shooting. According to their data, in the two weeks after the shooting, itemized contributions to the NRAÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
March 15, 2018
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted on Wednesday to move forward with new rules that would bump up disclosure requirements for certain political ads on platforms like Facebook and Google. The move comes as spending on the 2018 midterms is ramping up and as both lawmakers and digitalÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
March 14, 2018
Despite an onslaught of outside spending against Conor Lamb, the Pennsylvania Democrat's small-donor base may well have propelled him to a momentous special election victory Tuesday in a race that remains too close to be called. With 100 percent of precincts reporting in Pennsylvania's 18thÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
March 13, 2018
... some of the enhanced Dodd-Frank requirements removed if S. 2155 becomes law. How much of the Senate's support of the bill is driven by lawmakers' ties to those banks is unclear. To illustrate the scope of influence that banks wield in Washington, the Center for Responsive Politics assembled the tableÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
March 12, 2018
Of the schools duking it out this year for the coveted championship slot, 44 schools spent $10.1 million on lobbying in 2017, Center for Responsive Politics data shows. And in the world of Money March Madness, not one of the top seeded schools — University of Virginia, Xavier University, VillanovaÃâà...
cleveland.com
December 31, 1999
A senior researcher at the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks lobbyists' efforts to influence congressional candidates and members, said submitting accurate lobbyist filings provides the public with its "only real source of information about how Washington is operating, and howÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
December 31, 1999
Florida Senator Bill Nelson has raised more than $10 million and spent more than $3 million on a 2018 midterm race that may soon go from smooth sailing to a hurricane of political spending. Nelson, a Democratic incumbent, is running virtually unopposed as he awaits the probable entrance of Florida'sÃâà...
