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Banks seek to sway critical GAO report
Lobbyists are working hard to get ahead of a critically important report by the government’s internal watchdog that may determine how banks are regulated in the future.The Government Accountability...
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Selective outrage over federal health care costs
Knowing I’ve been both a critic of insurance company practices and a supporter of efforts to reform the industry, a FOX news producer reached out last week to get my take on accusations by...
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Former subprime executive making risky loans again
Andy Pollock is living proof that in the “non-prime” mortgage game, you can be down, but never out.The veteran subprime executive has been named president and CEO of WDB Funding, the company announced...
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Hillary Clinton: the 'Citizens United' candidate
An oft-forgotten footnote to the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision is that it all began with a low-budget film about Hillary Clinton.Now today, on the fourth...
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ICIJ offshore records reveal tax haven clients in China, Hong Kong
Close relatives of China’s top leaders have held secretive offshore companies in tax havens that helped shroud the Communist elite’s wealth, a leaked cache of documents reveals.The confidential files...
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Small-dollar donors boost pro-Obama Organizing for Action
When President Barack Obama’s campaign machine restructured itself as a politically active nonprofit in 2013, one goal was to keep attracting the legions of small-dollar donors who had twice helped...
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Cuomo calls for ethics reform in New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo thrust ethics and campaign finance reforms to the top of his legislative agenda yesterday by including the controversial subjects in his 2014 budget proposal. The Empire...
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How ICIJ reported on China's offshore leaks
More than six months in the making, our global partners at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists have published the latest chapter of their "Secrecy for Sale" investigation into...
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Corporate cash helps politicians party on
Corporate dollars have helped bankroll a host of political events and parties benefiting Democrats and Republicans alike, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of records voluntarily...
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Authorities block online access to ICIJ's exposé of Chinese elite's offshore...
Chinese authorities moved aggressively on Tuesday and Wednesday to block online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elites.(Download...
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Obama moves to address campus sex assault issues raised by Center series
President Barack Obama ramped up efforts to combat campus sexual violence Wednesday, launching a federal task force to aid colleges and universities in their responses to the problem, which was the...
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T-Mobile’s lobbying spending may be paying off
T-Mobile, the nation’s No. 4 wireless carrier, is keeping up the investment in Washington lobbying that’s helped the upstart compete against its far bigger rivals by buying companies and acquiring...
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Justice Department says federal contractor routinely faked security clearance...
“Shelves are as clean as they could get. Flushed everything like a dead goldfish.”That’s what a key supervisor in charge of reviewing federal security clearances told a superior in April 2010, in a...
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North Carolina complaint alleges excessive force by police in schools
Just days after the Obama Administration urged schools to back off harsh school discipline, a federal civil rights complaint filed in North Carolina this week alleges that school police have “violently...
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Pro-Republican super PAC goes sour
A super PAC that attempted to boost the candidacy of Republican Gabriel Gomez during last year’s special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts has been disbanded, according to paperwork recently filed...
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Senate Democrats' January of doom
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., recently predicted that Democrats will successfully defend their Senate advantage over Republicans following the 2014 midterms.But since late December, in a...
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Pay no attention to those insurance lobbyists behind the Medicare curtain!
If you go to 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 500, in Washington, D.C. in search of what you’ve been told is the address of a grass roots organization concerned about “cuts” to Medicare, you will...
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San Francisco takes lead in defining role of school police, sets limits on...
As debate over harsh school discipline heats up nationwide, San Francisco is taking a lead role among big cities by formally limiting the role of police on campuses and requiring specific types of...
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N.M. bill aims to put judge disclosures back online
A New Mexico lawmaker is pushing to have judges’ financial disclosures posted online after the state earned a failing grade in a Center for Public Integrity investigation into public transparency.State...
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RGA raises $50 million going into election year
The Republican Governors Association raised more than $50 million in 2013, loading it's coffers for the upcoming election year in which 36 governors' seats are up for grabs. The off-year fundraising...
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