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  1. Checking in on the House Oversight Committee

    By Joshua Hatch May 22, 2011 10:05 p.m.

    This Tuesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will have a doozy of a doubleheader. In the morning, the full committee will tackle the issue of rising gas prices, asking the question, how are government actions and regulations driving the price at the pump?

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  2. Democratic Super PACs ask FEC to OK candidate fundraising

    By Bill Allison May 19, 2011 4:39 p.m.

    Following on the heels of the new fundraising strategy laid out by James Bopp Jr. for Republican Super PAC, a pair of similar Democratic groups -- also known as independent expenditure-only committees -- have asked the Federal Election Commission to rule on whether party committee officials and candidates for federal office can permissibly raise unlimited funds from any source for these outside organizations. 

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  3. Upstate New York race sees the first of the outside spending this cycle

    By Anupama Narayanswamy May 19, 2011 11:12 a.m.

    The May 24 special House election in upstate New York is attracting the first slew of outside spending in the current election cycle. Party committees and other nonprofit groups have spent more than $1.88 million on this race so far.

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  4. Sunlight Live to cover Obama Middle East speech

    By Joshua Hatch May 18, 2011 4:44 p.m.

    On Thursday, May 19, President Obama will give a speech on recent events in the Middle East, from the "Arab Spring" uprisings to the lack of progress on an Israeli-Palestinian peace pact. How he addresses these issues is influenced by U.S. interests in the region, as well as lobbying efforts by foreign governments and organizations such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, better known as AIPAC.

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  5. New Bopp Super PAC wants Republicans to help it raise unlimited funds

    By Bill Allison May 16, 2011 1:04 p.m.

    A Super PAC formed by campaign finance law challenger and Indiana attorney James Bopp Jr. intends to harness the fundraising efforts of Republican Party committees  and candidates to raise unlimited contributions from individuals and corporations to be spent influencing elections in the 2012 campaign. 

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  6. Campaign disclosure foe James Bopp forms Super PAC

    By Bill Allison May 13, 2011 11:21 a.m.

    Attorney James Bopp, who's a key architect of the legal battle that's led to a flood of outside spending in elections, has registered a new independent expenditure only committee with the Federal Election Commission called the Republican Super PAC Inc.

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  7. Freshman lawmaker works to repeal transparency effort in Dodd-Frank

    By Ryan Sibley May 12, 2011 2:48 p.m.

    Last week members of the Capital Markets Subcommittee forwarded legislation to repeal a portion of Dodd-Frank that requires big banks to disclose income information for all of its employees onto the full Committee on Financial Services for consideration. 

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  8. Mexican government hires lobbyists, lawyer to help nationals facing capital punishment

    By Anupama Narayanswamy May 12, 2011 2:45 p.m.

    The Mexican consulate in Tuscon hired Arizona-based lawyer Gregory Kuykendall  for legal service and advice for Mexican nationals charged with crimes that could lead to a death sentence and for those already sentenced, recently filed disclosures under the Foreign Agents Registration Act filing show.

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  9. Financial regulation deadlines missed

    By Nancy Watzman May 11, 2011 2:20 p.m.

    In April, federal financial agencies missed every single rulemaking deadline--26 of them--mandated by the massive Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, according to a recent report by the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardell.

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  10. AT&T cultivates key Latino lawmaker

    By Nancy Watzman May 11, 2011 8:07 a.m.

    Four days before Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., publicly praised AT&T's announced aquisition of T-Mobile USA, AT&T's Political Action Committee (PAC) sent him a contribution for $1,000, adding to $4,000 already donated since the start of the year for his campaign fund.

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  11. Senate wants to "check in" on mobile developments

    By Joshua Hatch May 6, 2011 10:04 a.m.

    Few electronic devices have become as personal and ubiquitous as the mobile phone. Or as contentious. A few weeks ago, researchers discovered previously unknown location tracking files on the iPhone. Before that, the country's second-largest wireless carrier (AT&T) agreed to buy the fourth (T-Mobile). Next week the Senate will hold two hearings to look at these issues.

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  12. Eight lawmakers signed a letter for Renco

    By Keenan Steiner May 4, 2011 11:41 a.m.

    Eight members of Congress signed on to a January letter asking the heads of the Treasury and State Departments to take measures to intervene on behalf of a U.S.-owned company in the middle of a controversial dispute with Peru. Until now, Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., was the only known signatory of the letter sent to Secretaries Tim Geithner and Hlllary Clinton. 

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  13. Princess and the policy

    By Lindsay Young Apr 28, 2011 10:21 a.m.

    There is a special role for princesses in international diplomacy and some like Princess Diana and Queen Noor of Jordan captivated the imagination of the world with their charm and humanitarian work, but others play a more formal diplomatic and public relations role and appear in foreign lobbying records.

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  14. Sunlight Live covers Bernanke press conference

    By Joshua Hatch Apr 27, 2011 10:57 a.m.

    Today Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will do something no other Fed chairman has done before: He'll hold a press conference immediately following an Open Market meeting. The Federal Reserve says the press conference is designed to "to further enhance the clarity and timeliness of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy communication." And Sunlight Live will cover it through our award-winning live blog platform. Joining us at 2:15 p.m. ET will be USA TODAY's financial reporter John Waggoner.

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