The Pentagon's stealth rainmaker

By Alex Knott

How revolving doors and large donations allow a defense lobbying firm to dominate

Statement of Charles Lewis, Executive Director

By Charles Lewis

The Center for Public Integrity's executive director explains Outsourcing the Pentagon

The rise of 'revolving-door' consultants

By Sandy Bergo

Center identifies firms both advising politicians and lobbying them
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How do health care lobby dollars match influence in Congress?

By Adam Clark Estes

Who's really paying for and benefiting from reform?

Federal regulator gets derivatives advice from industry insiders

By Keith Epstein and Ben Protess

Advisory group to Commodities Commission dominated by finance lobbyists, execs

Facing crackdown, credit raters bring on heavy hitters

By Ben Protess

Breaking their own spending records, the biggest credit raters pull out the stops on lobbying budgets
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Goldman Sachs publicly backs financial reform — while dispatching army of lobbyists

By Adele Hampton

Amid attempts to rein in Wall Street, persuaders safeguard bank’s interests

How Wall Street can still win

By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert

As battle for financial reform moves to bureaucracy, industry lobbyists outnumber consumer advocates 50-to-1

The perils of a highway bill

By Gordon Witkin

New road-building measure could create jobs, but would likely be susceptible to pork-barrel spending

New ads reflect spending power of Super PACs, 501(c)(4) groups

By Sandy Johnson and Peter H. Stone

Super PAC ads illustrate the new playing field in campaign finance

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