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Toyota forms new campaign money vehicle
Toyota's North American subsidiary has formed a political action committee, a new Federal Election Commission filing indicates, meaning the Japanese automaker is adding another influence vehicle to its...
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OPINION: taking advantage of Medicare Advantage
Facing government cuts to one of their cash cows—private Medicare plans—health insurance companies have launched a multi-pronged campaign, financed by the customer premiums, to persuade Congress to...
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Beyoncé concert irreplaceable as political fundraiser
"Bey and Jay." Whatever.Come July 29, it'll be "Beyoncé (and Bob)" at Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center, as Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., is planning to rock out at a political fundraiser that pairs his...
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John Bolton forms super PAC
John Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador under President George W. Bush and a leading conservative voice on foreign policy issues, will lead a pair of newly formed political action committees, including a...
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How industry scientists stalled action on carcinogen
HINKLEY, Calif. – Ten days before Christmas 1965, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. station chief Richard Jacobs walked a half-block on a dusty road lined with scraggly creosote shrubs to check out a...
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Education writers honor Center series
The Education Writers Association has honored the Center for Public Integrity's Susan Ferriss this week with a first-place prize in the 2012 National Awards for Education Reporting, in the category of...
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Tackling the powerful chemical industry
Tens of millions of Americans drink water contaminated with chromium (VI), a toxic compound the Environmental Protection Agency was poised in 2011 to conclude likely causes cancer. That finding would...
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Greeting card industry sending Congress special interest delivery
Proposed cuts to the cash-hemorrhaging United States Postal Service, including eliminating Saturday delivery, are prompting outcries from lobbying interests as diverse as letter carriers to consumer...
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Mental-health study of U.S. kids affected by surge in deportations
An unprecedented surge in deportations in recent years has affected tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of American children. The traumatic experience of losing a parent for an entire...
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Waste, fraud and abuse commonplace in Iraq reconstruction effort
After U.S. and allied warplanes destroyed a key bridge carrying 15 oil and gas pipelines in northern Iraq during the 2003 conflict there, officials in Washington and Baghdad made its postwar...
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CPAC panel: Shrink the Federal Election Commission
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Three conservative attorneys had harsh words for the Federal Election Commission, the government agency tasked with regulating elections, during a campaign finance-themed event...
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Rick Perry zings fellow Republicans on national stage
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday called the Medicaid expansion piece of federal health reform “fiscal coercion” and blamed “friends and allies in the conservative movement” who have embraced it,...
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Witnesses tell Congress that Americans, legal residents’ families suffer due...
American families that have been split up for 10 years or more — or forced into exile — by immigration laws took their fight to Capitol Hill Thursday. Representatives testified before a House Judiciary...
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McConnell tries to paint Democrats as party of the rich
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., argued today that Democrats, not Republicans, are the party of the rich."Don't tell me Republicans are the party of millionaires and billionaires when...
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Energy Department auto loan program sputters
A Department of Energy loan program, infused with $25 billion to spur a wave of fuel-efficient vehicles, has not closed a loan in two years and is likely to leave two-thirds of the money unspent amid...
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Massachusetts outside money pledge unraveling?
Hopes that the race to fill Secretary of State John Kerry's vacated U.S. Senate seat would be not be subject to the type of spending unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision...
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Conflicts of interest run rampant in state legislatures
SANTA FE — On February 20, New Mexico’s House Energy and Natural Resources Committee gathered for one of its regular meetings in a drab room here at the capitol, a circular building known as the...
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OPINION: reform will help level premium costs
Recently I was one of three witnesses to testify before a House committee hearing on whether the cost of health insurance will be higher or lower for people who cannot obtain it through their employer...
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Invasion of Iraq, 10 years later
On the evening of March 19, 2003 – ten years ago – U.S. warplanes bombed a site in Baghdad that military officials believed was the hideout of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Although the failed attempt...
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'State Integrity Investigation' has blockbuster first year
It’s been exactly one year since publication of the State Integrity Investigation, an unprecedented, data-driven analysis of transparency and accountability in all 50 states — and a lot has happened...
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