Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

1. Super PACs next for Sanford and Colbert Busch?

   By Keenan Steiner Apr 3, 2013 4:49 p.m.

   With the race for a special House election in South Carolina now set, and polls showing it could be close, the outcome may partly hinge on who has the most money.

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2. As Congress weighs gun control, many states try Congress control

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 28, 2013 5:35 p.m.

   Updated on April 5 at 1:42 p.m. ET (see below)

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3. Backed by Hatch, Klobuchar, medical device makers score victory

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 22, 2013 5:02 p.m.

   In the two weeks before the Senate passed a resolution to repeal a tax on medical devices that was part of President Obama's health care overhaul, medical device interests threw a pair of fundraisers benefiting the leadership PAC of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a longtime friend of the industry.

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4. House panel tries to open the (financial) books of presidential libraries

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 20, 2013 3:34 p.m.

   As President Obama faces choosing between Hawaii and Chicago as the site of his presidential library, a House committee today greenlighted a bill that would make donors to the institution public.

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5. Behind Sanford in South Carolina House race, a trail of self-funders

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 15, 2013 11:43 p.m.

   The race to replace Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican congressman, who won appointment earlier this year to the U.S. Senate, has attracted a (literally) rich field of candidates.

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6. McConnell fires back in early campaign air wars

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 14, 2013 4:47 p.m.

   On the defensive and trying to wade off a Tea Party challenge, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has hit the airwaves with ads 20 months before Election Day.

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7. Pro-Obama group insists it's not selling access

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 13, 2013 6:22 p.m.

   As donors and Democratic activists meet with President Obama surrogates today and tomorrow to discuss the launch of a political nonprofit group that will help advance president's agenda, new details have emerged about it. But not the list of high rollers who have been asked to pay $50,000 to dine tonight with the president.

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8. Since Newtown, full employment for gun lobbyists

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 12, 2013 9:07 a.m.

   Since the Dec. 14 shooting that left 26 people dead at a Connecticut elementary school, at least 22 lobbyists have registered to influence Congress on gun-related issues, and several have been holding fundraisers for Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who is a potential swing vote in the legislative battle on Capitol Hill.

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9. With court case looming, FEC has trouble deciding how to say it can't decide

   By Keenan Steiner Mar 8, 2013 9:17 a.m.

   The issue at the Federal Election Commission Thursday: Deciding how to say "we can't decide."

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10. Mark Sanford drops third ad in special election

    By Keenan Steiner Mar 7, 2013 1:33 p.m.

    Ahead of the primary in South Carolina's special congressional election later this month, former Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican who's trying to make a comeback after a particularly public scandal, released a new TV ad Thursday.

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11. What Jon Kyl won't be lobbying on

    By Keenan Steiner Mar 6, 2013 5:30 p.m.

    Jon Kyl, the number two Senate Republican leader before retiring in January, has quickly become an advisor to influence powerhouse Covington & Burlington, a firm that has spent nearly $100 million lobbying in the nation's capital, Sunlight's Influence Explorer shows. Kyl will be joining a bipartisan stable of heavy hitters that includes Stuart Eizenstat, a top official in the Carter and Clinton administrations, and Senate parliamentary wizard Marty Gold.

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12. After $100,000 inaugural donation, nuclear deal gets closer

    By Keenan Steiner Feb 27, 2013 1:52 p.m.
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13. Pro-gun interests hire new lobbyists

    By Keenan Steiner Feb 25, 2013 6:24 p.m.

    Three pro-gun interests have hired lobbyists, according to registration statements filed with the Senate Monday and last week, in the face of a push by Congress to introduce new gun control measures in the wake of the December massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

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14. Amazon, AT&T donated services to Obama's inaugural

    By Keenan Steiner Feb 15, 2013 9:14 a.m.

    While some information on the staggering sums given by the more than 20 corporations and unions that contributed to President Barack Obama's inauguration has been reported, like AT&T's staggeringly large $3 million donation, less attention has been paid to the goods and services that companies provided to the 57th inaugural.

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Investigations by Sunlight Foundation reporter Keenan Steiner