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  1. Profile: Tim Scott

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 14, 2012 11:15 a.m.

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  2. Profile: Diane Lynn Black

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 14, 2012 11:15 a.m.

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  3. Profile: Tim Huelskamp

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  4. Profile: Scott Rigell

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  5. Influence profile: Paul Ryan

    By Kathy Kiely Aug 11, 2012 7:32 a.m.

    Rep. Paul Ryan, whom Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reportedly will name as his running mate Saturday, is a prolific fundraiser whose most ardent backers are a curious mix of the conservative elite and the blue collar plebian.  

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  6. Super PAC profile: American Bridge 21st Century

    By Lindsay Young Aug 10, 2012 1:21 p.m.

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  7. Tight rules preclude reporting charitable donations to Speaker's pet charity

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 9, 2012 4:08 p.m.

    With Americans saying that reducing federal corruption is now their second most important campaign issue, it's worth looking at how well a 2007 law designed to curb corruption is holding up.

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  8. Stealthy Wealthy: To Robert Rowling, political giving makes business sense

    By Nancy Watzman Aug 8, 2012 12:52 p.m.

    Texas-based billionaire Robert Rowling has given a total of $6.8 million to American Crossroads, the super PAC that has run ads criticizing President Barack Obama for, among other things, bailing out and bankrolling private businesses with public money. Yet Rowling, seen at right, a member of the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans who inherited his fortune, hasn't been averse to seeking taxpayer assistance in his own business ventures. And he's been willing to use his private fortune to seek public dollars. 

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  9. Missouri primary: McCaskill and Democrats helped Republican Todd Akin to Senate nomination

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 8, 2012 11:30 a.m.

    Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Democratic outside groups, pouring in over $1 million during Missouri's Republican Senate primary, got the guy they wanted: Rep. Todd Akin, who Tuesday upset two other Republicans to take the GOP nomination.

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  10. First light on dark money: Bloomberg gun control group discloses donors

    By Bill Allison Aug 7, 2012 12:22 p.m.

    When Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vehicle for pushing for tighter gun control regulation, ran ads Sunday morning calling on President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to offer plans to reduce gun violence, they became the first dark money group to publicly disclose its donors.

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  11. Bank accused of Iran money laundering lobbies in US

    By Lindsay Young Aug 7, 2012 11:50 a.m.

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  12. Wisconsin's Ron Johnson defends gun ownership

    By Nancy Watzman Aug 6, 2012 5:32 p.m.

    Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican whose state is the site of the nation's most recent deadly shooting spree, this time at a Sikh temple, has benefitted from more than $1.3 million from gun rights groups, far more than any other member of Wisconsin's congressional delegation.

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  13. Romney falls further behind Obama in race for campaign cabbage

    By Bill Allison Aug 6, 2012 3:45 p.m.

    Mitt Romney and President Obama have released their July campaign fundraising totals, and the Republican challenger continues to fall further behind the incumbent in the race to raise the most money.

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  14. Special interests honor Congress, executive branch with nearly $19 million in 2011

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 2, 2012 12:31 p.m.

    Spurred by reports that Smartphone software made by Google and Apple could violate users' privacy, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee called executives from the companies to testify in May 2011. For the most part, the senators were uncharacteristically deferential to the hi-tech titans appearing before their panel. In his brief opening statement, ranking member Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said, “We need a whole lot more information and knowledge in terms of those of us on the legislative side before we come to conclusions about what needs to be done.”

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