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Georgia speaker wants new ethics rules - with a twist
Georgia’s House Speaker says the ethics reforms he’s proposed this week could bring about a major shift toward cleaner government in the Peach State. But reform groups believe the initiatives may just...
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Disgraced ex-Rep. Eric Massa continues paying wife from campaign account
Former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., who resigned from Congress nearly three years ago amid accusations he groped colleagues and cohabited with junior-level male staff members, continues to cut his wife a...
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Opponents of coal influence elections anonymously
Deep in the heart of coal country, New Power PAC touts candidates who support clean energy.While the Kentucky-based super PAC has registered with the Federal Election Commission like other super PACs,...
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More waste found in Afghanistan as US heads for the exit
When U.S. defense department auditors arrived at the large new Imam Sahib Border Police Company headquarters in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province last fall, they discovered just a dozen men, only half of...
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Center's 'State Integrity Investigation' selected as a finalist for the...
The Center for Public Integrity’s groundbreaking State Integrity Investigation has been named a finalist for the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The award, given by the Joan...
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Green Party awash in red ink?
If you're to believe the Green Party of the United States' latest campaign finance disclosure, the party is mired in financial crisis, carrying nearly $36,000 in debt and a negative cash balance of...
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Gabrielle Giffords' PAC attracts little interest
A political action committee former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., created last summer has attracted little interest from donors, a new campaign finance filing indicates.Gabby PAC headed into 2013...
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Filings reveal previously unknown Romney bundlers
Sixty-nine lobbyists collectively raised more than $17.3 million for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign during the 2012 election cycle, according to a Center for Public Integrity...
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ATF's struggle to close down firearms dealers
The federal agents who visited Scott Taylor’s rural Pennsylvania gun shop in early January 2010 — to conduct the store’s first inspection in more than three decades — found thousands of violations of...
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RGA, DGA reap riches from corporate donors
The dust has barely settled on the 2012 election but the corporation-fueled fundraising engines of the Republican and Democratic governors associations continue to churn.Between late November and the...
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Democratic super PACs start year with cash advantage
Update (Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m.): This story has been updated to include comment from Brad Martin of Fair Share Action.Prominent super PACs are already preparing for their next act — the 2014 midterm...
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Which super PACs started 2013 with the most cash?
Fresh off the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, super PACs aren't expected to stay idle for long.According to a new Center for Public Integrity...
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Rival Super Bowl team owners allies on political field
On Sunday, Stephen Bisciotti, John York and Denise DeBartolo York will be cheering for different teams to win Super Bowl XLVII. But they have a common interest in the world of money in politics.Since...
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Pfizer spinoff Zoetis forms political committee
While drug manufacturing giant Pfizer's animal health spinoff was makingheadlines Friday for a blockbuster initial public stock offering, it was quietly entering the political arena, too.Zoetis Inc.,...
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OPINION: favors for special interests
If you wonder why we spend more money on health care than any other country but have some of the worst health outcomes, you need look no further than the halls of Congress to figure out why that...
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Super Bowl ad cost Mayors Against Illegal Guns $100,000
Mayors Against Illegal Guns paid a hefty price Sunday to air an advertisement during the Super Bowl that specifically targeted a Washington, D.C., audience.The nonprofit, headed by New York City Mayor...
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Senate lobbying data revamp causing problems for data watchdogs
A weekend revamp of the U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclose Act database has caused previosly active hyperlinks to hundreds of thousands of lobbying disclosure documents to stop functioning.Users attempting...
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Support our crowd-funded project and actor John Cusack will match it
The Center for Public Integrity is one three organizations that will benefit from the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s latest crowd-funding campaign in support of public-interest journalism. If you...
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Hillary Clinton's presidential committee officially history
As calls mount for Hillary Clinton to consider a presidential bid in 2016, the newly retired secretary of state tonight quietly disbanded her 2008 campaign organization, Hillary Clinton for President,...
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Why 2013 matters: covering money in politics during the off-season
With Election 2012 behind us, and Elections 2014 and 2016 still a long way off, you may be wondering what is left to say about money in politics. Consider the Source reporters Dave Levinthal and...
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