Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

1. Planned Parenthood targets Mitch McConnell

   By Kathy Kiely Feb 22, 2013 11:35 a.m.
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2. Senior status: Three members of Congress are older than the pope

   By Kathy Kiely Feb 11, 2013 11:01 a.m.

   Rep. Ralph Hall,R-Texas, Rep. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich,

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3. 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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4. NRA gives more than $2 million to support politicians in Texas, New Mexico

   By Kathy Kiely Jan 24, 2013 9:34 a.m.

   During the past two decades, the National Rifle Association has contributed more than $2 million to support politicians in New Mexico and Texas, where the nation's latest outbreaks of gun violence occurred this week.

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5. On eve of big legislative battle, is gun lobby targeting kids?

   By Kathy Kiely Jan 16, 2013 10:52 a.m.
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6. Immigration lobby begins to flex muscle

   By Kathy Kiely Jan 14, 2013 10:40 a.m.

   This week, while much of Washington's attention is focused on the debates over gun control and Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary, the pieces are beginning to move into place for another legislative battle that could make the other two look like a lobbying Little League (sorry, NRA).

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7. Dark money group takes aim at potential Obama appointee Chuck Hagel

   By Kathy Kiely Dec 20, 2012 12:18 p.m.

   A committee that spent more than $300,000 in dark money to defeat President Barack Obama this year is now spending more to offer advice on whom he should appoint to his cabinet.

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8. Money in politics drives up U.S. corruption perception index

   By Kathy Kiely Dec 5, 2012 4:06 p.m.
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9. The $2 billion lunch

   By Kathy Kiely Nov 29, 2012 11:12 a.m.

   Whatever will be on the menu when Mitt Romney and Barack Obama sit down for a mano-a-mano lunch today at the White House, we already know that those two diners have run up quite a tab.

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10. No donors to report but $1.5 million to spend for Romney

    By Kathy Kiely Nov 3, 2012 10:54 a.m.

    A political action committee that so far has reported no donations in the current campaign cycle has just unleashed $1.5 million in Internet advertising to help Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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11. Eleventh hour political donations marked by Adelson largesse

    By Kathy Kiely Oct 25, 2012 2:56 p.m.

    A casino-fueled and Israel-inspired power couple that so far has underwritten Republican candidates and causes to the tune of more than $35 million in the 2012 campaign continued its open-handed ways in the closing weeks of the contest.

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12. Two Midwestern states targets of gun violence and the NRA

    By Kathy Kiely Oct 22, 2012 9:48 a.m.
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13. Pro-Romney super PAC: $100 million and counting

    By Kathy Kiely Oct 20, 2012 11:04 a.m.

    Restore Our Future has hit a fundraising milestone: The super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has clocked $100 million in contributions since it was organized just two years ago this month.

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14. Nobel economics laureates both gave to Democrats

    By Kathy Kiely Oct 15, 2012 9:45 a.m.

    The two American economists who on Monday won a Nobel Prize for their work on "matching methods," theories on how to link supply with demand, are both modest political donors with a decidedly partisan streak.

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Investigations by Sunlight Foundation reporter Kathy Kiely