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Jun14
Clips Round-up for 6/14/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
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Jun13
Clips Round-up for 6/13/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsA great profile on Common Cause Minnesota's Mike Dean and the accountability campaign against Target and its political spending.May20Check Out Our Work This Week!
Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund were hard at work this week putting out a variety of memos, statements, and reports. Here's a round up of our recent work:
May19Wall Street's April Donations
The political action committee (PAC) for the American Bankers Association, a financial industry trade association, donated $80,500 to U.S. House members or their leadership PACs in April as that chamber began debate on whether to weaken Wall Street consumer protection provisions passed by the previous Congress. The leadership PACs for four U.S. Senators received $14,500, according to Public Campaign analysis of data provided by the Federal Election Commission.
House Financial Services Committee
May10Clips Round-up for 5/10/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Assaults on workers and voting rights: an organized attack to shift political power
Public Campaign President Nick Nyhart and Demos’ Tova Wang write that the assault on voting rights, union rights, and campaign finance system are a concerted effort to shift political power.May04Finance Subcommittee Members Took $13M from Wall Street
Untitled Document On May 5th, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, chaired by Rep.
Apr22Wall Street Lobbies Big In 1st Quarter
The Wall Street Journal reports today (via our friends at ThinkProgress), that “Wall Street and the financial industry spent more to lobby Washington in the first quarter of this year than a year ago when Congress was writing sweeping financial-overhaul legislation.”
Apr19Boehner's revolving door swings again
Roll Call reports this morning that Jay Cranford, “a policy aide to Speaker John Boehner is leaving the Hill to join the lobby shop of Clark Lytle & Geduldig.”
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