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  1. The Transportation Lobby The Transportation Lobby

    America’s transportation policy is dysfunctional. It’s also nearly bankrupt. Now, as debate reaches a crescendo over a new $500 billion transportation bill, can the national interest trump hundreds of special interests?

  2. Homeland Security: Boom and Bust Homeland Security: Boom and Bust

    How federal, state, and local governments have managed - or mismanaged - anti-terror programs.

  3. The Global Climate Change Lobby The Global Climate Change Lobby

    Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to an ICIJ investigation based on reporting in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, and the United States.

  4. Ginnie Mae’s Troubling Endorsements Ginnie Mae’s Troubling Endorsements

    The Government National Mortgage Association authorizes lenders to bundle mortgages into securities and sell them to investors — backed by U.S. taxpayer funds. But dozens of firms that have secured Ginnie Mae's blessing have troubled pasts.

  5. Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice

    According to a report funded by the Department of Justice, roughly one in five women who attend college will become the victim of a rape or an attempted rape by the time she graduates. But official data from the schools themselves doesn’t begin to reflect the scope of the problem. And student victims face a depressing litany of barriers that often either assure their silence or leave them feeling victimized a second time, according to a nine-month investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.

  6. The Murtha Method The Murtha Method

    Following up on allegations of influence peddling involving Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, a Center for Public Integrity computer analysis reveals that three-quarters of his subcommittee’s members have been involved in similar patterns of behavior that include 16 former aides-turned lobbyists, $100 million in earmarks, and $1 million in campaign cash. Among those involved are members of Congress from Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

  7. Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown? Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

    The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges. The banks that funded the subprime industry were not victims of an unforeseen financial collapse, as they have sometimes portrayed themselves, but enablers that bankrolled the type of lending threatening the financial system.

  8. The Climate Change Lobby The Climate Change Lobby

    The report provides a first-of-its-kind look at the universe of special interests shaping the climate change debate in the United States and how it has sharply expanded between 2003 — when Congress previously voted on climate change — and 2008.

  9. States of Disclosure States of Disclosure

    Following up on our two previous analyses in 1999 and 2006, the Center for Public Integrity’s latest financial disclosure rankings for state legislators found that 20 out of the 50 states received a failing grade and three of those states have no disclosure requirements at all.

  10. Tobacco Underground Tobacco Underground

    The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. Drawn by profits rivaling those of narcotics, smugglers move cigarettes by the billion, making tobacco the world's most widely smuggled legal substance.

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