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MapLight research on the influence of money and politics.
Bret Hendry
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January 11, 2017
With the 115th Congress officially in session, five key committees have new leaders. Committee chairs wield considerable influence over policymaking, not only by helping to draft and revise legislation, but also by deciding which bills receive a hearing. Read a MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to the five new committee chairs by industry and by company, including corporate PACs and employees of those firms.
Andrew Perez
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December 02, 2016
A campaign finance watchdog group sent new evidence to the Federal Election Commission on Friday to support its call for an investigation into whether President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign illegally coordinated with super PACs.
Frank Bass
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December 01, 2016
Donald Trump won the presidency with support from an overwhelming majority of U.S. counties where median household income has grown most rapidly over the last generation, according to a MapLight analysis of U.S. Census and elections data.
Andrew Perez
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November 18, 2016
Donald Trump and his Republican allies dominated the Wisconsin airwaves in the final week of the 2016 presidential election. Wisconsin is one of four Rust Belt states that Trump flipped en route to a victory that stunned pollsters and political observers.
Frank Bass and Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
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November 11, 2016
In the wake of stunning election returns, it seems that everything is on the table. Everything, that is, except perhaps campaign finance reform. Treated as an afterthought during a grueling 18-month campaign, the issue of money in politics is likely to gain more traction at the state and local level than in the nation’s capital.
Frank Bass
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November 10, 2016
Voters in four U.S. cities approved taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages Tuesday, a big defeat for the soft drink industry, which spent about $30 million to defeat the initiatives.
Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
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November 09, 2016
Republicans won seven of the eight U.S. Senate races that had received the most dark money — money from groups that don’t have to disclose their donors. As of late October, Conservative groups provided 68 percent of the more than $80 million in dark money spent in those contests to help the GOP maintain its Senate majority.