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FEC chairwoman warns of super PAC corruption
SALEM, Ore. — Do candidate-specific super PACs pose a greater threat of corruption to democracy than multi-candidate super PACs, Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub asked Friday at a...
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Crowd-funding our watchdog reporting
The Center for Public Integrity can benefit from the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s latest crowd-funding campaign in support of “aggressive, public-interest journalism focused on exposing...
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Report: Hundreds of former SEC employees representing clients before agency
Hundreds of former Securities and Exchange Commission employees and officials are representing clients or employers before the agency, sometimes helping them score significant regulatory victories,...
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OPINION: Big Pharma's stranglehold on Washington
It’s no surprise that American corporations spend billions of dollars each year on lobbying, trying to gain favorable treatment from legislators. What some may find a bit unnerving is the industry...
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Current gun debate may not help beleaguered ATF
The massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has placed gun violence squarely at the front of the national agenda. Long-skeptical legislators...
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Defense officials call Air Force F-22 probe sloppy and inadequate
When Air Force Capt. Jeff Haney’s F-22 fighter crashed in Nov. 2010, while he was gasping for oxygen in the cockpit, the Air Force surprisingly blamed it on him – not the plane.In a controversial...
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U.S. report urges deeper look into breast cancer's environmental links
A new federal advisory panel report makes a forceful case for more research into environmental causes of breast cancer, which was diagnosed in 227,000 women, killed 40,000 and cost more than $17...
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Center report prompts request for FEC hearing on super PACs
Harvard University law professor Lawrence Lessig* and his campaign finance reform organization, Rootstrikers, are today calling on Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub to conduct a...
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State of the Union speech sparks partisan fundraising pitches
President Barack Obama's new nonprofit advocacy group, Organizing for Action, is using tonight's State of the Union address as a fundraising opportunity. The group is emailing supporters asking them...
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Ouster of scientist from EPA panel shows industry clout
In 2007, when Deborah Rice was appointed chair of an Environmental Protection Agency panel assessing the safety levels of flame retardants, she arrived as a respected Maine toxicologist with no ties to...
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EPA unaware of industry ties on cancer review panel
In September 2010, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency came to a startling conclusion: Even a small amount of a chemical compound commonly found in tap water may cause cancer.The...
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FACT CHECK: State of the Union
President Obama put a rosy spin on several accomplishments of his administration in his 2013 State of the Union address.The president claimed that “both parties have worked together to reduce the...
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Helium balloon maker shows lobbyists love
A company that sells a popular Valentine's Day decoration— the helium balloon — is floating a pair of new advocates toward Capitol Hill.North Carolina-based wholesaler Helium & Balloons Across...
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Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states
In 2009, a network of online media outlets began popping up in state capitals across the nation, each covering the news from a clearly conservative point of view. What wasn’t so clear was how they were...
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Electronic medical records probed for over-billing
The Obama administration is forging ahead with a multi-billion dollar plan to shift from paper to electronic medical records, despite continuing concerns the program may be prompting some doctors and...
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Lobbyist PACs hurting for cash following election
The 2012 election, the most expensive on record, left the political action committees of many top lobbying firms hurting for cash, a Center for Public Integrity analysis of Federal Election Commission...
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FACT CHECK: Conservative response to the State of the Union
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul made misleading or exaggerated claims in their responses to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Rubio claimed that the federal...
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Campaign deep in debt, Lautenberg calls it quits
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., announced today he's retiring from the U.S. Senate, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's done fundraising.Lautenberg's campaign committee, which has $182,000 to its...
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Rep. Gutierrez meets on Capitol Hill with families torn apart by 1996...
Americans whose spouses have been exiled for years as a result of strict immigration penalties took their plight to Congress Thursday, begging legislators to help them as lawmakers discuss overhauling...
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Meteor strikes on lobbyists' minds
Might lobbyists one day save the world from killer space rocks?Don't count on it. But a few cosmos-minded special interests have spent tens of thousands of dollars in recent years prodding the federal...
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