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  1. Emergency Committee for Israel keeps spending in fight against Hagel

    By Jake Harper Feb 8, 2013 2 p.m.

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  2. Bloomberg spending in Chicago congressional race

    By Jake Harper Feb 7, 2013 6:30 p.m.

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  3. On Wisconsin: Badger State gets no break from political air wars

    By Jake Harper Feb 6, 2013 5:45 p.m.

    (Updated Feb. 8, 2:45 p.m. ET)

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  4. Influence profile: Interior nominee Sally Jewell

    By Lindsay Young Feb 6, 2013 5:28 p.m.

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  5. Anti-Hagel ad spending tops $200K

    By Jake Harper Feb 6, 2013 2:20 p.m.

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  6. In floor speeches, lawmakers talk about their guns

    By Nancy Watzman Feb 5, 2013 3:50 p.m.

    During debate on the Senate floor over the Compromise of 1850, Henry Foote of MIssissippi pulled out a pistol and waved it around, threatening another senator, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. Lawmakers are no longer allowed to bring guns on the floor, but plenty own them, as a survey of Congress by USA Today shows. And they are of course allowed to talk about their guns. In fact, they talk about them in speeches on the floors of the House and Senate, according to a search of Capitol Words.

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  7. In S&P suit, Obama biting hand that fed him?

    By Kathy Kiely and Bill Allison Feb 5, 2013 10:34 a.m.

    Maybe it's proof that money can't buy you love:  President Barack Obama's administration is widely reported to be about to take Standard & Poor's to court, despite the fact that employees of the credit rating agency and its corporate parent, McGraw-Hill, have disproportionately favored Democrats in recent election cycles.

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  8. At least $200K spent in DC on Super Bowl political ads

    By Jacob Fenton Feb 4, 2013 2:31 p.m.

    Sunday's Super Bowl was the country's top rated sporting spectacle--but viewers in Washington area got something extra: more political ads. Three groups spent a total of $200,000 to air political ads for DC-area super bowl viewers. For the first time this year, these ad contracts are available online, thanks to an FCC order that went into effect last summer.

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  9. Looking for coders, data-visualizers, 'someone who writes English'

    By Kathy Kiely Feb 2, 2013 5:48 a.m.

    More than 50 people braved the winter cold and dark to spend Friday night on the campus of Columbia University brainstorming for a bicoastal datafest that gets underway there and on the campus of Stanford University today.

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  10. Super Bowl blues: Safety concerns set off lobbying scrimmage

    By Keenan Steiner, Lindsay Young and Jake Harper Feb 1, 2013 10:44 a.m.

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  11. NRA PAC did not raise much post Sandy Hook

    By Nancy Watzman Jan 31, 2013 5:18 p.m.

    While the National Rifle Association (NRA) has claimed that membership surged in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in December, there did not appear to be any corresponding flood in contributions to the organization's political action committtee. 

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  12. Total 2012 election spending: $7 billion

    By Jake Harper Jan 31, 2013 11:47 a.m.

    A new estimate from the Federal Election Commission puts total spending for the 2012 election at more than $7 billion -- $1 billion more than previously thought. 

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  13. Among Hagel attackers: Shadowy group run by aide to Ron Lauder

    By Jacob Fenton Jan 31, 2013 9:36 a.m.

    As former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of defense, faces a Senate confirmation hearing today, he's under online attack from a group that's previously been criticized for a "mostly false" TV ad and "laughably bogus" polling. Though the group, Secure America Now, doesn't disclose its donors, and has yet to file a full year's tax return for either of its non-profit arms, Sunlight has learned it is run by a longtime political aide to Ronald Lauder, a cosmetics heir who has become a patron of Jewish causes and Republican candidates.

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  14. Temporary Massachusetts senator an active political donor

    By Kathy Kiely and Lindsay Young Jan 30, 2013 11:47 a.m.

    William Cowan, a Massachusetts lawyer who will take John Kerry's place in the Senate until a special election can be held to replace the Bay State Democrat, about to become the next secretary of state, has donated more than $36,000 to candidates for state and federal office, according to data downloaded from Sunlight's Influence Explorer.

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