August in Washington, D.C., is infamous for heat and humidity, with lawmakers leaving the nation’s capital and returning to their home states for “August recess.”
But the summer doldrums haven’t kept Republicans from hosting the first presidential debate of 2016, super PACs from filing their first campaign finance disclosures or a pro-pot legalization group from collecting enough valid signatures to make the ballot in Ohio.
Have you been paying close attention? Now is the time to test your knowledge with these eight questions in the Center for Public Integrity’s monthly money-in-politics news quiz!