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Daily Watchdog: Deteriorating conditions in Central America pose security threat

By Laurel Adams

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Doctors less welcoming of children on Medicaid, GAO finds

By Ben Wieder

Who will receive government checks, and who will not, if the government defaults?

By Alexandra Duszak

GOP deficit-cutters eye health IT stimulus funds as Obama’s point man leaves

By Kimberly Leonard

About the 'Cracking the Codes' project

By The Center for Public Integrity

Confusing overlap in government assistance programs

By Laurel Adams

Number of American households needing assistance reached record levels during the recession.

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FACT CHECK: Does Obama’s plan ‘gut welfare reform?’

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Public housing, private frustration

By Brian Ross, Avni Patel, John Solomon and Laurel Adams

Homeland Security marked by waste, lack of oversight

By G.W. Schulz

Costs for 9/11 emergency responders’ health plan under scrutiny

By Laurel Adams

Need financial advice? Feds have 50 different financial literacy programs

By Laurel Adams

GAO counts more than 50 financial literacy programs across 20 agency, creating confusion and duplication

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Race car driver Scott Tucker drew an elaborate facade around his payday loan businesses

By David Heath

Wells Fargo to pay $175M in lending settlement

By The Associated Press

Payday lenders agree to stop 'deceptive and illegal' practices

By David Heath

One year later: A meltdown retrospective

By Kat Aaron

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Darrell Issa — Oversight and Government Reform Committee

By Josh Israel

Officials from the Obama administration will likely be frequent visitors to this panel once Darrell Issa takes the gavel....

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Darrell Issa's tangled business and congressional interests

By Jeremy Borden

Attorney General Holder, Issa square off over Fast and Furious documents

By The Associated Press

Issa committee accused of making 'sham' campaign ad

By Rachael Marcus

IMPACT: Issa threatens ATF with contempt for withholding documents in gun probe

By David Heath

Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

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Ask Wendell: How to find health insurance

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Translating the insurance industry's feel-good rhetoric

By Wendell Potter

Watchdog interference: Inspectors General say agencies hinder investigations

By John Solomon and Amy Biegelsen

In an unusually public spat, the independent watchdogs inside a dozen federal agencies are alleging government officials have hindered sensi

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ITC hurt by agency's weak inspector general role

By Laurel Adams

One-fourth of Pentagon’s war zone pay to civilians was improper

By Julie Vorman

NASA inspector general lack of oversight

By The Center for Public Integrity

IGs lauded for sniffing out potential savings of $87.2 billion in last year

By Corbin Hiar

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Senior Dem calls for more oversight of pension entity after Center uncovers weakness

By John Solomon

Senate Aging Committee Chairman Herb Kohl says a Center for Public Integrity investigation that uncovered security, management and procureme

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U.S. agency insuring pensions needs bigger, more active board

By Julie Vorman

Pension insurer criticized for switching investment strategies too frequently

By Alexandra Duszak

No guarantees at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

By John Solomon

New law gives US companies a break on pensions

By The Associated Press

Medicare can’t identify top prescribers of addictive drugs

By The Center for Public Integrity and Joe Eaton

Medicare doesn't know if all the prescriptions it is paying for are being written by real doctors, says a new inspector general's report....

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States see importation as solution to high drug costs

By Victoria Kreha

Spending on lobbying thrives

By M. Asif Ismail

A record year for the pharmaceutical lobby in '07

By M. Asif Ismail

Senator seeks deadline for Medicare to prevent prescription drug fraud

By Joe Eaton

Senator seeks deadline for Medicare to prevent prescription drug fraud

By Joe Eaton

Taxpayer-funded Medicare recently spent more than $1 billion on drug prescriptions missing a valid doctor identification number and a Senate

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Prescription for power

By M. Asif Ismail

OPINION: Rep. Ryan's budget plan is a "Path to the Poorhouse"

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Big Pharma's stranglehold on Washington

By Wendell Potter

Family docs not ready to leave AMA group with influence over Medicare pay

By Joe Eaton

The food lobby's war on a soda tax

By Christine Spolar and Joe Eaton

Washington lobbyists have been enjoying a multi-million-dollar sugar rush from the food industry. Soft drink makers, supermarket companies,

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As soda tax bubbles up, food lobby mobilizes

By Christine Spolar and Joe Eaton

FACT CHECK: Ad on billionaire's statement misses the facts

By FactCheck.Org

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FACT CHECK: Obama's mis-Tweets

By Lori Robertson and FactCheck.Org

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