K Street's investment in the status quo

By Agustín Armendariz and Alex Knott

WASHINGTON, October 27, 2004 — When registered lobbyists dig into their wallets, incumbent senators almost always benefit....

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"… most of any Senator seeking re-election this year. Daschle was followed by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) with $225,000; Dodd with $190,000; Reid with $188,00 …"

"… Specter (R-Pa.) with $225,000; Dodd with $190,000; Reid with $188,000; and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) with $151,000.One reason that these donations concer …"

"… contributions to the very lawmakers they sought to influence.For instance, Senator Specter received $24,500 from lobbyists working for Blank Rome LLP. One of …"

"… te-of-the-art marine cargo terminal at the Port of Philadelphia.Similarly, Senator Daschle’s campaign received more money—$13,650—from lobbyists associ …"

Commentary: No good deed goes unpunished

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2005 — Columnists and editorial writers stirring the teapot-sized tempest about foundations that have supported (nefar

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"… Loan operator gave hundreds of thousands in campaign contributions to five Senators in exchange for their intervention with banking regulators? Does he think …"

"… ive rocketry technology to China? Is he perfectly content that a respected Senator like Bob Dole would support something he called “The Gallo Wine Amendmen …"

Dirty politics

By Stephanie Mencimer

When it comes to presidential elections, all politics is dirty. As Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988, says, “He who

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"… tive Republican candidate, to break ties with preachers who supported them.Senator George Allen’s “Macaca Moment”Their work is always secretive, but is …"

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Lobbyists stage Capitol Hill dogfight over joint strike fighter engine

By Nick Schwellenbach

An intense spending fight over a second engine for the Joint Strike Fighter has partners General Electric and Rolls Royce and rival Pratt &

Advisors of influence: Nine members of the Defense Policy Board have ties to defense contractors

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Data by Aron Pilhofer WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 — Of the 30 members of the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advis

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"… to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld after having been in a similar capacity for Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.), joined Johnston & Associates after leaving the P …"

"… ense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after having been in a similar capacity for Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.), joined Johnston & Associates after leaving the P …"

"… ver Institution. He was the governor of California from 1991 to 1999 and a Senator from 1983 to 1991.James WoolseyWoolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a vic …"

Frist for the mill? Senate majority leader aspirant has race-related controversy in his past

By Robert Moore

WASHINGTON, December 20, 2002 — Republican Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a close ally to President Bush and the probable successor to Sen

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"… veral Senators had approached him and asked him to seek the job. …"

"… of Tennessee, a close ally to President Bush and the probable successor to Senator Trent Lott as the next Senate Republican leader, would ascend to the top C …"

"… ght of a renewed focus on issues of race occasioned by Lott’s remarks at Senator Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party earlier this month. At the event, …"

"… y racist remarks made in the closing days of the contest against incumbent Senator Jim Sasser. The remarks surfaced after a November 1994 bus tour the Frist …"

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Capitol Hill stem-cell backers received health industry dollars

By M. Asif Ismail and Christine Morente

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2001 — U.S. representatives and senators who strongly pushed for federally subsidized embryonic stem cell research ha

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"… o of the strongest backers of the government-funded stem cell research are Senators Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. Harkin is the chairman of t …"

"… uential lawmaker who supports embryonic stem cell research in some form is Senator Bill Frist, R-Tenn. The first practicing physician to be elected to the Se …"

"… nents received lessThe main congressional opponents of federal funding are Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Representative Dave Weldon, R-Fla., and GOP House l …"

Young pilots riskier than the over-60s who are turned away

WASHINGTON, January 8, 2001 — Minutes after the TWA Boeing 727 had taken off from New Yorks LaGuardia Airport and was climbing above 10,000

Commentary: Lawsuit against Clean Air Act by members of Congress

By Curtis Moore

WASHINGTON, September 5, 2000 — For nearly a quarter-century, almost since the very day of his swearing in as a U.S. senator, Utah Republica

Family, agents decry "reckless" ATF gun operation on Mexican border

By Amy Biegelsen

Family of slain ATF agent testify at Congressional hearing on how guns slipped across border

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