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Efforts at self-regulation by technology companies fall far short of providing the true transparency necessary to inform voters about who is trying to influence them.
A new MapLight analysis of campaign finance records in Missouri found that organizations seeking to influence the 2018 Missouri elections spent more than $15 million on state candidate races and ballot measures.
A top hospital lobbyist told a room of health care executives this week not to worry about Medicare for All and suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won’t let the idea come up for a vote during the current Congress.
The nation’s largest health-care corporations gave at least $61 million directly to political campaigns, nonprofits, ballot initiatives, and trade associations during 2017.
Corporate lobbyists are raising an increasing amount of money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) at a time when the House Democrats’ campaign arm is taking fire from the left for its effort to freeze out primary challengers.
The average congressional opponent of the Green New Deal has received 24 times more campaign cash from the nation’s largest oil and gas companies than sponsors of the climate change resolution.
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Scott Pruitt Meetings and Contributions
Since March 2017, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt has met with at least 39 organizations that donated $286,000 to his Oklahoma campaigns or affiliated political committees.
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