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Capital Eye Opener, Feb. 7: Menendez Ties to Donor Deepen, Hutchison Joins...

Your morning dose of what’s trending in money-and-politics: MORE SCRUTINY ON MENENDEZ AND DONOR: The Washington Post reports that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) tried two different times to dispute top...

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Capital Eye Opener, Feb. 26: Staff Shuffling at Dem Groups, Adelson Sues for...

Your daily dose of what’s trending in money-and-politics: DEMOCRATIC PAC SWAP: Marcy Stech is leaving Priorities USA Action, where she was deputy communications director, to become national press...

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Capital Eye Opener, Feb. 27: Lobbyists Worry About SCOTUS Case, Club for...

Your daily dose of what’s trending in money-and-politics: LOBBYISTS WORRY ABOUT SCOTUS CASE: As we wrote earlier this week, the Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether to remove caps on the...

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Revolving Door Works for Staffers, Too

The revolving door goes two ways, and it works for staffers as well as for members of Congress. The more well-traveled direction is from government to corporation, trade group or other organization,...

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Lobbyists 2012: Out of the Game or Under the Radar?

A CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS REPORT (For a .pdf version of this report, click here) Executive summary Over the past several years, both spending on lobbying and the number of active lobbyists has...

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CRP Hosts Dark Money Panel

Update: We have now posted the video from the event. Watch it below, or on our YouTube Channel. There will be no easy fix. Or at least that was the apparent consensus this morning at a Center for...

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Why Should We Win a Webby?

We’ve made no secret of the fact that OpenSecrets.org has been nominated for a Webby Award. We’re proud to be considered one of the top five politics sites in the world! But we could be No. 1. We’re...

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Money, Not Morals, Drives Marijuana Prohibition Movement

The following is adapted from OpenSecrets.org’s new marijuana issue profile. Read more about the marijuana industry’s campaign donations and lobbying efforts as well as relevant marijuana focused...

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We Want Your Feedback!

(Image: Niclas Lindh, flickr) Now that the midterms are over, we’d like to take a moment to breathe — and to ask for your help. We process mountains of data on campaign finance, lobbying and lawmakers’...

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Actually, Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street money? More than double that 3 percent.

Hillary Clinton said during Saturday’s Democratic debate that three percent of her donations came from Wall Street donors. We factchecked that. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) This post has been updated to include...

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