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Transportation lobbyist raises money for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's son

By Aaron Mehta

iWatch News inquiries prompt LaHood fundraiser to be moved from lobbyist home

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New, performance-based method of divvying up funds at risk

By Matthew Lewis

The weekly watchdog: Sept. 12 - Sept. 16

By Bill Buzenberg

Solyndra executives will take the Fifth before Congress

By Matthew Mosk

IMPACT: Obama orders up government-wide accountability board

By Ben Wieder

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"… said. “The Secretary is not attending his fundraiser. Sen. LaHood is an elected official in his own right with his own relationships that he established during the …"

IMPACT: Obama orders up government-wide accountability board

By Ben Wieder

IMPACT: Obama orders up one government-wide accountability board

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Recovery board foiled by its own effort to track stimulus spending

By John Solomon

Stimulating hypocrisy: Scores of Recovery Act opponents sought money out of public view

By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta

FACT CHECK: Obama’s Jobs Act ‘bipartisan’? Not entirely

By FactCheck.Org

FACT CHECK: President Obama's promises from '08 Iowa Caucus largely unkept

By FactCheck.Org

Obama rewards big bundlers with jobs, commissions, stimulus money, government contracts, and more

By Fred Schulte, John Aloysius Farrell and Jeremy Borden

Obama administration has rewarded "bundlers" with jobs, appointments, government contracts

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Top spy job is no plum

By Peter Newbatt Smith

FACT CHECK: Biden’s manufactured jobs claims

By FactCheck.Org

Obama beats Biden in book royalties

By Sarah Laskow

Obama names another bundler to be ambassador to Luxembourg

By Fred Schulte

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Democrats demand ouster of regulator for not being tough enough with banks

By Shirley Gao

Democrats demand ouster of regulator who doesn't see need for higher capital requirements

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Credit rater says new consumer agency is much-needed "medicine" for banks

By Shirley Gao

FDIC Chief got Bank of America loans while working on its rescue

By Keith Epstein and David Heath

Considering the differences between two billion-dollar bailouts

By Kat Aaron

Subprime loans may have sunk BankUnited FSB

By Laura Cheek

Obama names another bundler to be ambassador to Luxembourg

By Fred Schulte

Burned once, Obama again turns to a big donor to be next Luxembourg ambassador

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House committee votes to subpoena White House over Solyndra loan

By Corbin Hiar, Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Obama rewards big bundlers with jobs, commissions, stimulus money, government contracts, and more

By Fred Schulte, John Aloysius Farrell and Jeremy Borden

IMPACT: Obama orders up government-wide accountability board

By Ben Wieder

Obama administration agreed to Solyndra loan days after insiders foresaw firm's failure

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

How much will Obama's failure to stand up to Wall St. hurt his re-election chances?

By Shirley Gao

Obama campaign may be haunted by lack of Wall Street accountability

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Solyndra executives will take the Fifth before Congress

By Matthew Mosk

Who will pay for Obama’s big day?

By Caitlin Ginley

FACT CHECK: Perry slams Obama presidency with inaccurate ad

By FactCheck.Org

Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison resigns

By Matthew Mosk and Ronnie Greene

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State Department FOIA requests unanswered four long years later

By Josh Israel

President Obama promised more responsivenes but delays in processing Freedom of Information Act requests are still legendary

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Government transparency under Obama misses the mark

By Jim Morris

FOIA, meet POIA: Advocates will push for it again in 2011

By Amy Biegelsen

FOIA performance is getting worse

By Laurel Adams

SEC loses short-lived FOIA exemption in financial reform law

By Laurel Adams

FACT CHECK: Obama's mis-Tweets

By Lori Robertson and FactCheck.Org

President dives into social media - and misses on electric cars and taxes

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FACT CHECK: GPS's bogus tax attack against Obama

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FACT CHECK: Truth about tax rate talking points

By FactCheck.Org

The black hole of improper payments

By Aaron Mehta

Project updates on recovery.gov lack clarity

Few celebrations for year-old Dodd-Frank reform law

By Shirley Gao

Year-old bank reform law faces threats from GOP lawmakers, business groups

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Reform reading: SEC tackles energy payments, conflict minerals next week

By Julie Vorman

Senate Republicans vow to fight Obama nominee to head consumer bureau

By Amy Biegelsen and Shirley Gao

White House threatens to veto House budget as too stingy with CFPB, SEC funding

By Shirley Gao

FACT CHECK: Perry slams Obama presidency with inaccurate ad

By FactCheck.Org

Fred Upton must balance devastated Michigan with cost-cutting

By Jeremy Borden and Aaron Mehta

Communications, energy companies give big bucks to Upton

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Fred Upton — Energy and Commerce Committee?

By Kristen Lombardi

FACT CHECK: Breaking down Obama and Biden's convention speeches

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Obama donor weighed asking White House to save Solyndra, emails say

By Matthew Mosk

Obama-backed solar firm collapses after big federal loan guarantee

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

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