PaperTrail BlogPaper Trail Blog

RSS Feed

Tag : President Obama

  1. June 16, 2009, 2:33 pm

    ENVIRONMENT: EPA Not Ready To Name Coal Ash Locations

    Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Dem, stirred excitement last Friday when she decried the “huge muzzle” the Obama administration placed on her by deciding not to disclose the whereabouts of more than 40 dumpsites full of coal ash — the often toxic combustion waste from coal-fired power plants. Read more

  2. June 05, 2009, 10:45 am

    STATES: Ethics Update — June 5

    Here’s our biweekly round-up of recent developments regarding ethics policies in the states. PaperTrail is digging through the news for the latest on this front, so you don’t have to. Read more

  3. May 28, 2009, 2:55 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: Buying Ambassadorships Redux: Four Obama Nominees Were Big-Money Bundlers

    President Barack Obama’s pledge to change the ways of Washington doesn’t yet seem to apply to the diplomatic selection process, if yesterday’s round of ambassadorial nominations is any guide. Read more

  4. May 11, 2009, 1:04 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: The Time for Campaign Finance Reform?

    The conventional wisdom is that the public financing system for presidential campaigns is dead, or at least comatose. But a conference at the National Press Club last week — hosted by NYU School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice — posed an unconventional follow-up question: Is this the moment to push for new public financing legislation? Read more

  5. May 07, 2009, 2:57 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: Obama’s First Choice for FEC Raises Questions About Stance on 527s

    A few days ago, President Obama made attorney John Sullivan his first nomination to fill one of the three vacant seats on the Federal Election Commission. If confirmed by the Senate, Sullivan would fill the slot of Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat. Read more

  6. May 05, 2009, 11:05 am

    ACCOUNTABILITY: Lawmakers Ask Obama for Whistleblower Protection

    After years of executive branch hostility to whistleblowers, will President Barack Obama — himself a former whistleblower attorney — hire some of those conscientious employees back? Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York and six other members of Congress have asked Obama to consider doing so. Read more

  7. May 01, 2009, 3:30 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: President Obama’s Opportunity to Mold the FEC

    At midnight Thursday, the terms of Federal Election Commissioner Donald F. McGahn II (a Republican) and FEC Chairman Steven T. Walther (a Democrat) expired. Combined with Democrat Ellen L. Weintraub’s seat — she remains on the commission even though her term expired two years ago — President Obama has the opportunity to make his first three appointments to the six-member commission. Though FEC terms are set for six years, members are free to stay on until replacements are selected by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Read more

  8. May 01, 2009, 1:29 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: The Political Donation Histories of Obama’s Potential New Justices

    When word leaked Thursday night that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire after this court term ends, it took about 30 seconds for every major news outlet and political pundit to put together a list of who President Obama might nominate to replace Souter. Naturally, we were curious as to the political contribution histories of some of the top prospects, so we ran their names through the subscription-only CQMoneyLine donor database to see what came out. Read more

  9. April 28, 2009, 2:15 pm

    ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: Less Clean Coal Lobbying? Not Exactly

    Don’t think that the “clean coal” blitz faded in the first months of the Obama administration just because newly filed disclosure forms show an 85 percent drop-off in lobbying by the companies participating in the effort. Read more

  10. April 24, 2009, 2:15 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: FEC Takes No Action on Pro-Hillary 527

    It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were ensconced in a heated battle for the Democratic nomination, but a decision Thursday by the Federal Elections Commission takes us back to those days. Read more

Tags

President Obama, Election '08, Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, politics, Energy, Coal Ash, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, John Murtha, Environment, Transportation, Freedom of Information Act, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Public I Podcast, Federal Election Commission, Justice Department, Tennessee, Alabama, Blue Dogs, Bill Buzenberg, Defense, New York, West Virginia, Hillary Clinton, Treasury Department, Duke Energy, Freddie Mac, Broken Government, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter, Tim Armstead, Deval Patrick, Southern Company, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Henry Waxman, Economy, Mitch McConnell, President Bush, Kathleen Sebelius, Federal Elections Commission, American Electric Power, Congress, Investigative Reporting Workshop, James Oberstar, Climate Change, Fannie Mae, Defense Department, Sunshine Week, Securities and Exchange Commission, Supreme Court, Government Accountability Office, Nancy Pelosi, States, John McCain, Blue Dog Coalition, Robert Gates, Government Accountability Project, Andrew Cuomo, Department of Defense, Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, Obama, Appraisal, FBI, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Saxby Chambliss, Robert MacLean, Health, New Jersey, States of Disclosure, George LeMieux, Pesticides, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Sunlight Foundation, Center for American Progress, Mike Cox, Kyoto Protocol, Harry Reid, Massachusetts, Home Valuation Code of Conduct, Common Cause, Copenhagen, ICIJ, Texas, Chris Dodd, The Washington Post, Barbara Boxer, ProPublica, Defense Contract Audit Agency, Orrin Hatch, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Health and Human Services, Brennan Center for Justice, Jon Corzine, Wisconsin, David Patterson, Ed Markey, Bank of America, Sonia Sotomayor, Lockheed Martin

Become a fan
image Follow the Center

Stay Connected

Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter and get the latest from our in-depth investigations, articles, interviews, blogs, videos, and more.

Support the Center

Your support will help us bring you more investigations, articles, interviews and news related materials relevant to U.S. politics and politics abroad.

Donate

About the Center

The Center for Public Integrity is dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern in the USA and around the world.

More about the Center

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

The Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a collaboration of some of the world’s leading investigative reporters. ICIJ extends globally the Center’s style of watchdog journalism, working with 100 reporters in 50 countries to produce long-term, transnational projects.

ICIJ website