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State ethics update — June 19

By Caitlin Ginley

Here’s our biweekly round-up of recent developments regarding ethics policies in the states. PaperTrail is digging through the news for the

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State ethics update — May 22

By Caitlin Ginley

PaperTrail provides our biweekly round-up of recent action on ethics policies in the states. We’re digging through the news for any potentia

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Maine

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Georgia

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Massachusetts

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Louisiana

By The Center for Public Integrity

State ethics policies — May 8

By Caitlin Ginley

PaperTrail provides our bi-weekly round-up of recent action on ethics policies in the states. We’re digging through the news for any potenti

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Michigan

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Methodology

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States outpace Congress in upgrading lobbying laws

By Leah Rush and David Jiminez

Lobbying FAQ

By Elizabeth Brown

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Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene

By Marianne Lavelle and David Donald

Southern Company, the nation’s largest electric power generator, also had the largest force of lobbyists among the hundreds of businesses an

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Less clean coal lobbying? Not exactly

By Marianne Lavelle

Methodology

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Climate lobbying heats up at the state level

By Te-Ping Chen

No longer on staff

By Elspeth Reeve

Impending ban hasn't stopped soft money rush by presidential hopefuls

By Alex Knott and Adam Mayle

WASHINGTON, October 17, 2002 — Potential candidates for the 2004 presidential primaries have raised more than $7.6 million in unregulated so

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State parties collected nearly $570 million in contributions, soft money transfers in 2000

By John Dunbar, MaryJo Sylwester and Robert Moore

State bans on soft money

By Eric Marx

Undisclosed

By Katy Lewis, Robert Moore, Leah Rush and MaryJo Sylwester

Important dates: Federal campaign finance legislation

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Racicot will continue lobbying while serving as RNC chair

By Gil Shochat

President Bush's choice of former Montana governor Marc Racicot to head the Republican National Committee continues a long established pract

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Haley Barbour’s money juggernaut for 2012

By Peter H. Stone

Haley Barbour is cranking up his Crossroads fundraising while winding down governorship

By Peter H. Stone

Commentary: New GOP chairman Marc Racicot mixes politics and profits

By Charles Lewis

Haley Barbour's money mission

By Peter H. Stone

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After glitch cleared up, lobbying ranks back to normal

By Marianne Lavelle

If you, like PaperTrail, try to keep tabs on the lobbyists roaming Capitol Hill, you were probably equally confused when, as of the January

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Public service, personal gain

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Hidden agendas

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Frequently asked questions

By Charles Lewis

Ga. leads states shining more light on legislator finances

By Leah Rush and David Jimenez

Shays-Meehan opens soft money loophole in the States

By John Dunbar

If the campaign finance reform bill that passed the House becomes law, it will eliminate a colossal loophole

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Big bucks flood 2012 election — What the courts said and why we should care

By John Dunbar

Soft money primer

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State bans on soft money

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Important dates: Federal campaign finance legislation

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Commentary: Profiteering from democracy

By Charles Lewis

In his January 1998 State of the Union address, after decrying the campaign-fund-raising "arms race," Preside

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Networks of influence

By John Dunbar, Daniel Lathrop and Robert Morlino

Commentary

By Charles Lewis

Industry battles re-regulation

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Vote set for quixotic bill that would reveal attack ad funders

By Rachael Marcus and Michael Beckel

Excerpts from this story referencing "Lobbying":

"… to political campaigns. They take politicians and their staffs on junkets.Lobbying: Since 1996, the 50 largest media companies and four of their trade associ …"

Calling Koch

By The Center for Public Integrity

An email response to numerous attempts to reach Koch for comment

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Hired guns - Initial report

By Robert Morlino, Leah Rush and Derek Willis

States outpace Congress in upgrading lobbying laws

By Leah Rush and David Jimenez

Commentary: No good deed goes unpunished

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