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  1. As NRA pushes Congress, states consider bills to put guns in schools

    By Nancy Watzman Apr 2, 2013 2:25 a.m.

    Even as the National Rifle Association (NRA) announced a new push today to put armed guards in schools across the country, state lawmakers across the country are considering similar proposals. So far, legislation related to guns on school grounds has come up in at least three dozen states. The vast majority of these bills would make it easier for school personnel, guards, and volunteers to carry guns on campus, while a handful would toughen laws prohibiting firearms at schools.

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  2. Baseball's (political) heavy hitters

    By Louis Serino Mar 29, 2013 12:34 p.m.

    While MLB players will be taking the field for Sunday's and Monday's opening day games in hopes of winning a World Series title in October, team owners may have their sights set on winning a different sort of Fall Classic. According to data from Sunlight's Influence Explorer, MLB organizations pumped in over $24 million to politicians, PACs and independent expenditure groups throughout the 2012 election cycle. No wonder presidents like to toss out the season's first pitch; you can see President Barack Obama at right, practicing for a 2010 appearance on the mound.

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  3. 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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  4. Political heavy hitters lining up behind gay marriage

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Mar 27, 2013 11 a.m.

    Updated: 1:20 p.m.

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  5. What's in a name? Republican- versus Democrat-speak on gay marriage

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 26, 2013 11:14 a.m.

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  6. NHL champs LA Kings visit White House; owners wish someone else were in it

    By Louis Serino Mar 26, 2013 10:14 a.m.

    If Los Angeles Kings owners Ed Roski and Phil Anschutz had their way during last year's election, someone other than President Obama would be greeting the Stanley Cup champions Tuesday when they arrive in D.C. for the traditional White House fete. According to Sunlight's Influence Explorer, the Kings organization contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates throughout the 2012 election cycle -- almost all of which came from the pockets of Roski and Anschutz. 

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  7. Newt Gingrich forms joint fundraising PAC

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Mar 25, 2013 10:51 a.m.

    Seems that 2012 is the (fundraising) campaign that just won't die. We already know that President Barack Obama, despite winning what he loudly advertised would be his last campaign, is still hot on the fundraising trail. And Politico is reporting that Obama's unsuccessful GOP rival, Mitt Romney, is going to be feting donors later this spring. 

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  8. 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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  9. Contraceptives remain most controversial health care provision

    By Nancy Watzman Mar 22, 2013 12:02 p.m.

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  10. Immigration: Give me your poor, your tired . . . your lobbyists?

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Mar 21, 2013 9:59 a.m.

    Long before the last election put new political momentum behind the stalled efforts to enact a comprehensive update of the nation's immigration laws, Washington's influence industry was teed up to make it a titanic battle, an analysis of lobbying disclosures by the Sunlight Foundation shows.

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  11. 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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  12. Donor in Menendez probe hoped for riches from government contracts

    By Bill Allison Mar 19, 2013 3:42 p.m.

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  13. Mary Jo White's former clients generous to senators

    By Nancy Watzman Mar 19, 2013 9:03 a.m.

    Many of the senators voting on Mary Jo White's nomination to head the SEC today got campaign contributions from her high-powered legal clients.

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  14. New Labor nominee Perez an active political giver and getter

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 18, 2013 4:20 p.m.

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