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Super PAC forms to elect liberal women governors
A former EMILY’s List official has launched a new super PAC to help elect liberal women governors.Kate Coyne-McCoy has registered the “American LeadHERship PAC” with the Federal Election Commission,...
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FEC nominations moving forward
The Senate Rules and Administration Committee will on July 24 conduct a confirmation hearing on President Barack Obama's two new nominees to the Federal Election Commission, three government officials...
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Impact grows for Center's international focus
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has this goal: to be the world’s best cross-border investigative reporting enterprise. ICIJ is an active global network of 160 reporters in...
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Clinton supporter suspected of illegal donations
Employees of a Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm that federal prosecutors called an “assembly line for illegal campaign contributions” donated more than $500,000 to federal candidates and...
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IMPACT: OSHA strengthens rules for 'model workplace' program
Companies participating in a federal program that rewards “model workplaces” with exemptions from some safety inspections now will face automatic removal after work-related deaths or particularly...
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Pro-Obama nonprofit has $8.2 million quarter
Organizing for Action, the nonprofit organization formed to push President Barack Obama’s political agenda, had an impressive quarter, raising $8.2 million, the group announced Friday.OFA has raised...
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Throwaway kids: disciplined California teens struggle to school themselves
LOST HILLS, Calif. — On a blistering May day in California’s Central Valley, most other 13-year-olds were in classrooms down the road. But Erick Araujo was under strict orders from his mother to stay...
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Microsoft heavily funding 'small business' lobby
A “small business” technology trade group that’s aggressively pressing Congress to ease key immigration laws is heavily funded by one of the world’s wealthiest corporations, according to a Center for...
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OPINION: echoes of the past in anti-ObamaCare ads
CINCINNATI, Ohio—Watching Americans for Prosperity’s new anti-ObamaCare advertisement here in Ohio—one of the first states it’s being aired—took me back 20 years. Almost exactly 20 years, in fact.I was...
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The huge drone that could not be grounded
With large budget cuts looming in the next decade, top Air Force officials knew last year they needed to halt spending on some large and expensive programs. So they looked for a candidate that was...
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Senate e-filing club grows by one
The ranks of the U.S. senators who voluntarily file their campaign finance reports online increased this past quarter — by one.With the addition of Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., 16 senators chose to submit...
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Farmworker advocates press EPA to update pesticide rules
Saying they are plagued by pesticides but protected by only a thin layer of government regulation, farmworkers and their advocates are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to update rules that...
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Justice Alito's reported wealth soars in 2012
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito may have more than quintupled his net worth in 2012 according to a financial disclosure statement released Wednesday.Alito’s 23-page financial disclosure reveals...
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D.C.-based groups spent big in special elections
Carpetbagging super PACs and nonprofit groups are dominating this year’s special congressional elections in a potential foreshadowing of the 2014 midterms, where even the sleepiest locales aren’t...
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Outside money from D.C. groups, Koch brothers gushes into local politics
This week the Watchdog (the Center's email newsletter, which you can subscribe to here) points out two new investigative reports that shed light on how big money continues to saturate politics in the...
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OPINION: insurance tricks to avoid ObamaCare's consumer protections
Bookmark this column and read it whenever an insurance company’s feel-good TV commercial tries to convince you its bosses care as much about your health as they do about next quarter’s profit margins.I...
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Navy at sea with lousy books
The U.S. Navy has struggled for a long time to track its own spending, as well as the work routinely performed on its ships, planes, and aircraft, in a manner that complies with modern accounting...
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Koch Industries PAC spending record cash
The political action committee of Koch Industries— the energy and chemicals company led by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch — gave more money in June to federal political candidates and...
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Senate report recommends ouster of large dental chain from Medicaid program
One of the nation’s largest dental chains for children should be thrown out of the Medicaid program for encouraging dentists to perform unnecessary treatments to boost profits, a new U.S. Senate report...
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Pro-gun group dramatically ups influence spending
Key opponents of gun control and proponents of immigration reform invested unprecedented amounts lobbying Congress this spring, bucking a downward trend among many of the nation’s largest companies and...
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