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A total of 32 House and Senate Republicans helped push Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package over the finish line, most of whom have been showered with campaign cash from the leading lobbying group behind the bill — the US Chamber of Commerce. Lawmakers run for office, grabbing donations from interest groups, then, after their election, voting for legislation supported by those special interest groups despite their constituents’ opposition. The Chamber had been lobbying for Biden’s infrastructure bill, since the start of the year. By July, Open Secrets reported the Chamber had spent more than $12 million lobbying for the bill...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s campaign committee has repeatedly promised her donors she would personally match their financial contributions, but so far she has not matched a single cent, according to a report. Pelosi has been using a popular deceptive tactic that is used in political fundraising to gather more donations. The tactic, which promise donation-matching, has been under intense scrutiny according to a report by Axios Pelosi’s campaign has reportedly gone a step further by the speaker promising the contribution matching would come from her personal fortune. But, reports show Pelosi has not made a single contribution from herself. According...

The State Department has admitted that an official intentionally deleted several minutes of video footage from a 2013 press briefing, where a top spokeswoman seemed to acknowledge misleading the press over the Iran nuclear deal, Fox News reported. “There was a deliberate request [to delete the footage] – this wasn’t a technical glitch,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said, in admitting that an unidentified official had a video editor “excise” the segment. The State Department had faced questions earlier this year over the block of missing tape from a December 2013 briefing. At that briefing, then-spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked...

Women who live in America’s suburbs are supporting President Donald Trump’s re-election bid, says a new report at OpenSecrets.org, that shows Trump is benefiting from a surge in large-dollar donations from women in suburbs – more than any Democrat candidate. While mainstream media are reporting some polls that suggest Trump is losing the support of women, the report by Open Secrets, part of the Center for Responsive Politics, shows the president has over 10,500 large-dollar contributions from women in suburbs, and has received $8,293,135 from them – the largest amount than any of the Democrat 2020 candidates. “Suburban women, who...

When most employees get fired, they leave with only their personal items and a strong dose of embarrassment. No severance. No gold watch. No retirement party. Just a terse, “Don’t bump your butt on the door on your way out!” It matters not that the employee may have been a solid contributor to the company for many years.  Such is not the case if you are among the chosen few who are blessed to work for very generous boards of directors. Witness the recent events under the Golden Arches. CEO Steve Easterbrook was pushed out for admittedly having a sexual...

I was perusing the Opensecrets for 2016 Presidential contributions, and I have a couple of questions: First, why would a company called Renaissance Technologies give Hillary $14 million and also give Trump $15 million? Is it a cover their butts thing? Do they think they'll get access in return? Second, Why would the US Department of Agriculture and the US Postal service be contributing to Jill Stein????? Hope these aren't stupid questions. I'm not real familiar with campaign finance.

However, of the nearly $420,000 Trump has donated to committees, the largest recipient has been the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee with $116,000 — or more than one fourth of his total contributions to all party and political action committees. February 2011: REPUBLICAN DONALD TRUMP’S PAST AND CURRENT GENEROSITY TO DEMOCRATS: Billionaire real estate tycoon Donald Trump’s recent speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference excited a number of Republicans, many of whom applauded his statement that Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has “zero chance” of winning. It also fueled speculation that the mogul would run for president. Cries of “you’re hired!”...

Harry Reid’s jihad against the Koch Brothers has already yielded a hilarious video compilation (by the Free Beacon) of his 134 mentions of their name. But now with new information, his Koch addiction can become a potent tool in the hands of Republicans. Call it karma, if you like, but the former boxer now leading the Senate majority has left himself wide open.It turns out that Koch Industries employees and PACs have donated to quite a large number of Congressional Democrats. The data was right there on Open Secrets when Jeff Dunetz of Truth Revolt picked it up and posted...

Democrats and many in the media routinely complain about money spent in politics, and they regularly lash out at conservatives and big business. Turns out, unions are the top spenders in politics. Twelve of the top 20 political donors from 1989 to 2014 have been unions, which overwhelmingly support Democratic causes, according to an analysis done by OpenSecrets.org's Center for Responsive Politics. Seven of the top 10 donors overall give almost exclusively to politicians or groups on the left. ActBlue, a political action committee that raises money for Democrats and progressive causes and features Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer...

I'm sure the media was going to get around to telling us sometime...

Listed below are the top 10 contributions from 62901 during the 2008 cycle. MAKHDOOM, ZAHOOR Obama, Barack (D) SELF EMPLOYED/PHYSICIAN $4,000 06/30/08 MAKHDOOM, ZAHOOR Obama, Barack (D) SELF EMPLOYED/PHYSICIAN $2,300 06/30/08 MAHKDOOM, SUMERA Obama, Barack (D) $2,000 06/30/08 MAHKDOOM, SUMERA Obama, Barack (D) $1,500 06/30/08 MAKHDOOM, ZAHOOR Obama, Barack (D) SELF EMPLOYED/PHYSICIAN $1,300 03/30/08

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Open the First Lady files template_bas template_bas Hillary Clinton should help the National Archives put release of her White House papers on a fast track. August 29, 2007 In asking a federal court to force the National Archives to release papers from Hillary Rodham Clinton's time as first lady, the public interest group Judicial Watch has opened itself to the charge that it's on a fishing expedition. Maybe so, but the group is fishing with a license -- the Freedom of Information Act. That law allows citizens to inspect public documents after deletions are made for privilege or national security....

Rank Name Minimum Net Worth Maximum Net Worth 1 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $219,098,029 $234,549,004 2 Jane Harman (D-Calif) $168,651,649 $289,045,000 3 John Kerry (D-Mass) $165,741,511 $235,262,100 4 Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $135,862,098 $677,230,000 5 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $78,150,023 $101,579,003 6 Robin Hayes (R-NC) $58,952,196 $59,970,169 7 Charles H. Taylor (R-NC) $56,056,017 $77,341,000 8 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $43,343,464 $98,660,021 9 Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) $41,153,105 $64,096,019 10 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $38,198,170 $90,733,019 11 John McCain (R-Ariz) $25,071,142 $38,043,014 12 Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $19,978,175 $67,170,000 13 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $19,189,049 $93,043,004 14 John Campbell (R-Calif) $17,004,087 $77,512,000 15 Kenny Ewell...

2001-2006 Total Receipts: $44,915,155 2001-2006 Total Spent: $23,196,563 Cash on Hand: $22,000,937 Debts: $0 Date of last report: June 30, 2006 First elected: 2000 Next election: 2006

Don't ask why I was looking at who Michael Dukakis has donated to in this election cycle, but I did.I thought it was rather interesting while looking at his donations that I noticed he has given $3000 to the Kerry campaign throughout this election cycle.The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) also referred to as the "McCain-Feingold Bill" limits an individuals contribution to a federal candidate at $2000 per election cycle.Unless I am missing something or there was an error with this website, it seems that Mr. Dukakis has broken federal law through his donations to the Kerry campaign....

Mrs. Heinz-Kerry and her connection to The Tides Foundation is not ‘new‘ news. The Tides Foundation’s connection to moveon.org isn’t breaking news, either. Nor is moveon.org’s connection to Texans for Truth. What is lesser known is the Communist Party’s willingness to back Kerry in this election. They’ve encouraged their members to vote for him instead of their own candidate. Their sole reason? Getting rid of President Bush. The W.W.W.P. (The Socialist Party) openly brags of infiltrating the unions. They brag about having Party members placed in positions to negotiate contracts for union memberships. Many of the people who give money...

Summary: OpenSecrets.org shows that the Kerry-Edwards campaign has a 76% compliance rate with FEC disclosure provisions for campaign contributions, compared to 91% on average for congressional campaigns, and 93% for the Bush-Cheney campaign. See original article at The Truth Laid Bear ; text included below. --------------------------- Just noticed something interesting when comparing Kerry's campaign contributions against President Bush's over at OpenSecrets.org. The OpenSecrets folks track the "quality of disclosure" associated with campaign contributions, described as follows: "BEST EFFORTS" RULES: When making solicitations, candidates, PACs and party committees must make "best efforts" to obtain and report the name, address, occupation and...

Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees 2004 Election Cycle

Just noticed something interesting when comparing Kerry's campaign contributions against President Bush's over at OpenSecrets.org. The OpenSecrets folks track the "quality of disclosure" associated with campaign contributions, described as follows: "BEST EFFORTS" RULES: When making solicitations, candidates, PACs and party committees must make "best efforts" to obtain and report the name, address, occupation and employer of each contributor who gives more than $200 in a calendar year. In order to show that the committee has made "best efforts," solicitations must specifically request that information and inform contributors that the committee is required by law to use its best efforts to...