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MapLight Launches Tool to Easily Search California Secretary of State Campaign Finance Data
Jay Costa | August 28, 2013
August 28, 2013—MapLight announces the launch of a web tool that allows journalists and citizens to easily search the California Secretary of State's newly released bulk data to find campaign contributions to candidates and ballot committees. Click here to try it!
Washington State GMO Labeling Initiative is Round Two for CA Prop. 37 Donors
admin | August 13, 2013
Africa Studio/Shutterstock July 19, 2013—The similarities between California's Prop. 37 and Washington's I-522, "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act," go beyond titles and even beyond content: I-522 has many of the same moneyed supporters that fueled the Prop. 37 campaign, as well as some of the same opponents as those that helped defeat it. What groups have contributed to both campaigns?
House Members Voting to Continue NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance Received Twice as Much From Defense Contractors
admin | July 23, 2013
Representative Justin Amash, R-Mich.Gage Skidmore/FlickrJuly 27, 2013—As much as 70 percent of the money appropriated to the NSA by Congress is used to pay private defense companies to conduct intelligence operations, though the details of the NSA's budget and contracts with private companies are classified. Federal budget experts estimate the NSA's budget to be somewhere between $10 billion to $20 billion per year.How much money have House members voting to continue NSA surveillance received from defense contractors?
Dave McKinley, A Top Recipient of Coal Money, Pushes Coal Ash Deregulation Bill to a Vote
admin | July 22, 2013
RepDavidMcKinley/Flickr July 23, 2013—The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a bipartisan bill, introduced by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., that would limit the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate the management and disposal of coal ash. The bill would allow each state to implement and enforce its own coal ash disposal programs. How much money has McKinley received from the coal and electric utilities industries?
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What Does John Boehner Have to Lose by Debating Climate Change?
admin | July 17, 2013
Speaker John Boehner/Flickr July 18, 2013—Twenty-two members of the House of Representatives recently sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner asking him to hold a debate on the House floor about the science of climate change. "As the nation's leading scientists have told us, climate change is one of the most serious threats we and future generations will confront," they wrote in the letter. "We therefore ask you and your Republican colleagues to debate us on the House floor about the dangers of climate change and the appropriate policy response." How much money have members of the House, and Speaker Boehner in particular, received from carbon-emitting interests?
Farm Bill Vote Switchers Have Nearly Twice as Much Money From Traditional Farm Bill Interests
admin | July 14, 2013
Talk Radio News Service/Flickr July 16, 2013—On Thursday, July 11, the House Republican leadership convinced just enough of its caucus to vote in favor of the revised farm bill, which does not include funding for food stamps, to pass it without any Democratic support. How much money have Republicans who switched their vote received from interests that traditionally support the farm bill?
House Votes to Block Auditor Independence Rule
admin | July 10, 2013
Anticapitalistes.net July 10, 2013—Monday, the House voted 321-62 in favor of the Auditor Integrity and Job Protection Act, a bill to block regulators from enacting a rule deigned to improve the independence and objectivity of auditing firms that review the books of publicly traded companies. How much money have members of the House received from interests supporting the bill?