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  1. June 05, 2006

    Power Trips: Congressional Staffers Share the Road

    WASHINGTON, D.C. June 5, 2006 — A new study of more than 25,000 public documents reveals that members of Congress are not alone in taking millions of dollars worth of privately funded trips. Lawmakers and their aides took nearly 23,000 privately sponsored trips to places from Kansas to Kazakhstan, at a cost of almost $50 million, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity, Northwestern University's Medill News Service, and American Public Media programs Marketplace and American RadioWorks. Read more

  2. May 26, 2006

    Power Outage: An Enron Backgrounder from the Center for Public Integrity

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 26, 2006 — Former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty Thursday on charges of conspiracy and fraud, more than four years after the demise of their high profile energy trading company shocked the corporate and political world. Enron founder Lay was convicted on all the charges against him, while former chief executive officer Skilling was convicted on 19 of the 28 counts. Read more

  3. May 24, 2006

    The Center for Public Integrity Announces Leadership Change

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 24, 2006 — The Center for Public Integrity's Executive Director Roberta Baskin has resigned and will be succeeded by Managing Director Wendell Rawls Jr., the Center's Board of Directors announced today. Read more

  4. May 04, 2006

    House Passes Lobbying Reform Bill: Enforcement Not Addressed

    WASHINGTON, D.C. May 4, 2006 — The U.S. House of Representatives last night narrowly passed new ethics legislation aimed at increasing lobbying disclosures. The vote was 217-213 on the measure, which now must be reconciled with an earlier Senate bill that contains stringent provisions. Read more

  5. April 26, 2006

    Center Launches New State-Oriented Web Tool, Releases New State Disclosure Law Rankings

    WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2006 — The Center for Public Integrity today launched a new comprehensive state-by-state Web site feature, providing visitors with access to nearly 7,000 personal financial disclosure filings submitted by state legislators, detailing their non-legislative employment, board positions and investment holdings. Read more

  6. April 19, 2006

    President Hu Comes to D.C. Amidst Growing China Lobby

    WASHINGTON, D.C. April 19, 2006 — On Thursday, China's President Hu Jintao is scheduled to meet with President Bush, in what will be his first trip to Washington D.C. since coming to power in 2003. Hu's diplomatic premiere in Washington comes amidst a long-running and rapidly escalating effort by the Chinese and Hong Kong governments to influence U.S. policy and public opinion. Read more

  7. April 14, 2006

    Center for Public Integrity Wins SPJ Public Service Award

    WASHINGTON, D.C. April 14, 2006 — The Center for Public Integrity's "Well Connected in the States" project has won the Society of Professional Journalists' Public Service in Online Journalism award for 2005. Read more

  8. April 06, 2006

    Drug Industry Spends Millions Lobbying State Governments to Maintain Prices

    WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2006 — The Center for Public Integrity has released a report today, detailing the multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign waged by the pharmaceutical industry to thwart state governments' attempts to reduce drug prices. Read more

  9. March 28, 2006

    Senate Rejects Office of Public Integrity, Leaves Lobbying Regulations Un-enforced

    WASHINGTON, D.C. March 28, 2006 — The U.S. Senate defeated today, by a vote of 67-30, an amendment by Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) to create an independent Office of Public Integrity to oversee lobbying disclosure. Center for Public Integrity research, however, shows that while under the oversight of the Senate Ethics Committee, lobbying disclosure has been glaringly un-enforced. Read more

  10. March 17, 2006

    New House Majority Leader a Frequent Flyer and Corporate Jet Traveler

    WASHINGTON, D.C. March 17, 2006 — As members of Congress seek to distance themselves from recent ethics scandals, the Center for Public Integrity is reporting that new House majority leader, John Boehner (R-Ohio), conducts business in ways not so different from his predecessor Tom Delay (R-Texas). As the Center writes, "Federal Elections Commission records and House travel disclosure forms reviewed by the Center indicate that Boehner used his leadership PAC "Freedom Project" to build a network of political and business relationships not unlike Delay's own." Read more

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