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Health insurers watch profits soar as they dump small business customers
Several million previously uninsured Americans now have coverage because of Obamacare, but it could be argued that the people who have benefited most from the law—at least financially—are the top...
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National donors pick winners in state elections
If money is influence, the Republican Governors Association wielded more of it than anyone else last year in state elections nationwide. The group, led in 2014 by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, gave...
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Obama administration to open Atlantic coast to drilling, handing victory to...
For proponents of expanded domestic oil and gas production, the Obama Administration hath given, and it hath taken away. The administration on Tuesday set aside sections of the Alaskan Arctic Ocean for...
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Republican bills take aim at EPA science, rulemaking
Even when Democrats controlled the Senate, Republicans found ways to put limits on the Environmental Protection Agency.As the Center for Public Integrity reported last week, Republicans used the...
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Senate transparency push gets new GOP allies
A bipartisan group of lawmakers will soon float a bill requiring U.S. Senate candidates to electronically file campaign finance documents, the Center for Public Integrity has learned.Known as the...
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Deadbeat politicos outrun federal enforcers
Go ahead: Break election laws and violate tax rules, inviting federal fines you never pay.You might just end up like civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who now hosts MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” a nightly...
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Hybrid PACs generating few greenbacks
There's a certain irony that Ready for Hillary is probably the nation's most renowned hybrid political action committee, since this curious kind of political group likely wouldn't exist but for a...
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Millions of middle class Americans will remain uninsured despite Obamacare
The good news from last week’s Congressional Budget Office report was that Obamacare will cost 20 percent less through 2019 than originally expected. That’s in part because medical inflation has...
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Obama budget includes $5M for FEC offices
As far as addresses go, the Federal Election Commission's 999 E St. NW in Washington, D.C., is a pretty cool one — attached to a Hard Rock Cafe and across the way from the "X-Files'" favorite prop...
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Obama administration budget proposes cuts for Medicare Advantage
President Obama’s proposed 2016 budget takes a major swipe at waste and abuse in Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly, seeking more than $36 billion in cuts over the next decade to curb costly...
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Obama proposes to boost spending for nuclear armaments
The Obama administration has proposed to boost spending on the U.S. stockpile of nuclear warheads at a higher rate than for many other military programs, according to White House budget documents...
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Hear how politics beat science on chemical research
As the Center and Reveal reported recently, assessments of potentially dangerous chemicals by the Environmental Protection Agency are at a standstill.Our reporter David Heath sat down with Reveal, a...
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Time Warner made its case to legislators at luxury resort
Fed up with slow internet speeds offered by commercial services, some Maine cities and towns are turning to a new way to get high-speed broadband for their residents and businesses: doing it...
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Time Warner Cable made its case to legislators at luxury resort
Fed up with slow internet speeds offered by commercial services, some Maine cities and towns are turning to a new way to get high-speed broadband for their residents and businesses: doing it...
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Capitalizing on a political contribution cap hike
A pair of wealthy campaign contributors — including one who’s dead — wasted no time exercising their newfound right to pump political parties with significantly more cash than they could before...
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Big business crushed ballot measures in 2014
Anthem Inc. quickly mounted its defenses when consumer advocates pushed for a 2014 ballot initiative in California that would have made it more difficult for the nation’s third largest health insurer...
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Republicans used to support the EPA, says former administrator
William Ruckelshaus, who served as the first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Richard Nixon and returned to the post for Ronald Reagan, says protecting the environment used to...
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The defense industry's friend inside Congress and outside Congress
Newly-retired House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon is opening a consulting firm in Washington, becoming one of the latest lawmakers to shift from overseeing a major U.S. industry and...
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Scientist with industry ties won't lead EPA chemical risk-assessment program
The Environmental Protection Agency won’t be hiring a scientist with strong ties to industry to run its chemical assessment program. As the Center for Public Integrity reported in December, one of two...
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Black history and heritage bulldozed by gas boom
WESTLAKE, La. — Stacey Ryan already knows where he’ll be buried. It will be in Perkins Cemetery, the same place his mother and father were laid to rest after dying from cancer. It’s where his aunts,...
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