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McCain campaigns for Romney, transparency or not
By Breanna Edwards Jul 16, 2012 3:24 p.m.Political irony: That's probably the best definition for what happened Monday when when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., probably the only GOP lawmaker to express interest in the Disclose Act, rallied Michigan on behalf of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who has turned his back on requests to be more open with his campaign finance.
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Adelsons give $5 million to YG Action Fund
By Jacob Fenton Jul 15, 2012 11:43 p.m.Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, gave a combined $5 million to the "YG Action Fund", a super PAC with ties to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., according to Federal Election Commission filings made Sunday night.
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Romney surging, but Obama well ahead in campaign cash
By Bill Allison Jul 11, 2012 10:11 a.m.For Mitt Romney, the magic number is $158 million. That's how much he'll have to outraise President Barack Obama over the last four months of the campaign to surpass the president, the record holder for campaign fundraising.
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Sheldon Adelson writes another million dollar check for new super PAC
By Jacob Fenton Jul 9, 2012 5:39 p.m.Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the most prolific campaign contributor this election, has written another million dollar check--this time, to a little-known super PAC called "Freedom PAC" that first popped-up last month. The contribution was disclosed in the group's quarterly filing, submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
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Broadcasters petition FCC to stay online posting of political ad files
By Keenan Steiner Jul 5, 2012 12:59 p.m.The nation's broadcasters are trying another method to stop the Federal Communications Commission from putting information about political ads online.
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Freedom (or not?) of information: FOIA at 46
By Kathy Kiely Jul 5, 2012 10:51 a.m.There probably are more reasons to sound the alarm than to bang a celebratory drum on the 46th birthday of the Freedom of Information Act.
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Rep. Blake Farenthold deletes tweets from Slovakia
By Kathryn Lucero Jul 3, 2012 3:30 p.m.Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, deleted tweets he sent over the weekend detailing various stops in Slovakia, and his office is refusing to say why he's there or whether he's on official travel or vacation.
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Fireworks light up the political landscape
By Jake Harper and Becca Heller Jul 3, 2012 12:19 p.m.In the spirit of Independence Day, we decided to explore the lobbying and legislature surrounding the fireworks industry. Wading through the myriad regulations that govern the use of pyrotechnics from state to state, we identified several major fireworks companies and followed their purse strings. Turns out everything's political, even the bangs and zooms with which we celebrate our nation's birthday.
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Feds order online posting of political ad info next month
By Kathy Kiely Jul 3, 2012 8:02 a.m.Information about political TV ads must be posted online by Aug. 2 under an order published this morning in the Federal Register.
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Congressional ad campaigns poised for big fall blitz
By Anupama Narayanswamy Jul 2, 2012 12:07 p.m.While super PACs, seven-figure checks and the heated Republican presidential nomination fight that Mitt Romney eventually won dominated the news the first half of this election year, congressional campaigns quietly have been pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the political economy -- and the real avalanche of congressional campaign expenditures and campaign ads is yet to begin.
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Told you so: Democrats voting against Holder got gun money
By Keenan Steiner Jun 29, 2012 2:13 p.m.All 17 Democrats who sided with Republicans in Thursday's House vote to cite Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress have received contributions at some point in their careers from the political action committee of the National Rifle Association, which was lobbying hard to pass the resolution.
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"Big Data" good for global competitiveness and government decisions...and transparency?
By Breanna Edwards Jun 29, 2012 1:47 p.m.IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this week announced the broadening of their high performance computing collaboration to boost U.S. competitiveness in the global economy.
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Could the United Nations squelch freedom on the Internet?
By Kathryn Lucero Jun 29, 2012 12:56 p.m.Activists expressed concern this week that several United Nations proposals to regulate the Internet would undermine freedom and give too much control over the World Wide Web.
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After health care, what will happen to Dodd-Frank?
By Nancy Watzman Jun 28, 2012 4 p.m.While the U.S. Supreme Court has now upheld the health care reform law as constitutional, conservative groups still are on a legal attack on the constitutionality of one of the other signature achievements of President Barack Obama’s term in office: the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
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