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  1. Follow the (Airport) Money

    By Bill Allison Oct 7, 2009 6:30 p.m.

    Over the past five years, the Federal Aviation Administration has handed out nearly $18 billion in grants for almost 19,000 airport projects. In theory, these projects -- funded through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program -- are supposed to enhance safety or protect the environment. In fact, according to a Subsidyscope analysis of FAA data (neatly assembled into a searchable database by Sunlight's Kaitlin Lee), a fair amount of money has gone toward the building of parking lots and other questionable things.

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  2. The $333 Million Grant That Wasn't

    By Luke Rosiak Aug 6, 2009 7:21 p.m.

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  3. Always amazes me...

    By Bill Allison May 5, 2009 5:18 p.m.

    what you can find in lobbying disclosure data. I was looking for something else when I came across this filing. TIG Insurance has hired the Normandy Group to "[a]ddress non-payment by Government of Argentina of fees owed to TIG Insurance Company. Seek to put restrictive language in Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills re: US assistance to Argentina." The fees paid are less than $5,000, so it doesn't seem like a lot of lobbying went on, but the list of lobbyists has a few revolvers on it:

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  4. Tracking swine flu...

    By Bill Allison Apr 28, 2009 2:28 p.m.

    ...with Google maps.

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  5. Dicks requests earmark for Concurrent Technologies

    By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:47 p.m.

    Rep. Norm Dicks requested one Defense earmark for one former client of PMA Group:

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  6. Specter ramps up the fundraising

    By Bill Allison Mar 25, 2009 7:53 p.m.

    In the whirlwind of fundraising parties this month"as of today we've collected 428 invitations for this month and counting"Sen. Arlen Specter stands above his peers, with a dozen parties scheduled in March and more beyond.

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  7. Rangel: No accusations coming from Congress

    By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 7:36 p.m.

    Roll Call's Lauren W. Whittington reports that Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., once again, is saying that the ethics committee has nothing on him:

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  8. Dodd's family business?

    By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 2:58 p.m.

    Kevin Rennie notes another connection of Sen. Christopher Dodd to the financial industry, at one remove from AIG:

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  9. A few questions for Sen. Dodd

    By Bill Allison Mar 16, 2009 2:49 p.m.

    This weekend, the august Sunday Times reported on Sen. Christopher Dodd's Irish "cottage":

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  10. Another guilty plea in Abramoff case

    By Bill Allison Mar 10, 2009 6:30 p.m.

    Roll Call's Jennifer Yachnin reports:

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  11. House kills PMA probe

    By Bill Allison Mar 6, 2009 4:54 a.m.

    Shocking:

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  12. Visclosky endorses some form of action on PMA Group

    By Bill Allison Mar 5, 2009 10:35 p.m.

    A friend passes on this story:

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  13. Senate approves earmarks for PMA Group clients

    By Bill Allison Mar 5, 2009 5:05 a.m.

    Sen. Tom Coburn would like to do away with all earmarks; this evening the Senate voted on an amendment he proposed that would eliminate, from the Omnibus Appropriations bill, earmarks for 14 clients of the soon-to-be-defunct lobbying shop, the PMA Group. The purpose of the amendment read as follows:

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  14. Cities seeking a Piece of the Action?

    By Bill Allison Feb 26, 2009 1:43 p.m.

    From the A Piece of the Action? database, here's a list of cities that have hired lobbyists who have reported that the bailout or the stimulus is a specific lobbying issue, complete with links (if any) to project requests on the excellent StimulusWatch.org page for those cities:

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