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Specter, unions & Blank Rome LLP
By Bill Allison Apr 30, 2009 8:12 p.m.Just a thought about Sen. Arlen Specter's shift to the Democratic party:
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Political Party Time: More than 170 fundraisers for appropriators (already!) in 2009
By Bill Allison Apr 23, 2009 9:04 p.m.We're just past the end of the first quarter of the current election cycle (with seven more to go before it's all over), but members of the Appropriations Committees in the House and the Senate have already had <a href="http://blog.politicalpartytime.org/2009/04/23/more-than-170-parties-with-appropriators/">more than 170 fundraisers</a>, according to my colleague Nancy Watzman.
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Hedge fund manager hosts Dodd fundraiser
By Bill Allison Apr 20, 2009 7:01 p.m.Andrew Miga of the Associated Press reports on Sen. Chris Dodd's fundraising efforts for his reelection bid, and his tendency to raise it from interests with business before his committee:
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Hill: No campaign cash for Visclosky from former PMA Group clients
By Bill Allison Apr 16, 2009 9:12 p.m.On April 3rd, we noted that Rep. Pete Visclosky, one of the most prolific recipients of campaign cash from and earmarker of federal dollars to PMA Group clients, had requested no earmarks--not a single one--for former clients of the firm for fiscal year FY 2010. Oddly enough, employees and PACs of former PMA Group clients donated nothing to Visclosky's reelection campaign in the first quarter of 2009, according to Roxana Tiron of the Hill.
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Open data
By Bill Allison Apr 13, 2009 7:30 p.m.It's not just the Open Secrets that's going open data. Our Political Party Time project is making its raw data available too. Find out some of the places where contributors in Open Secrets data rub elbows with members of Congress!
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Former PMA Group Clients Get Defense Earmarks from Murtha for 2010
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 3, 2009 9:54 p.m.Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has requested defense related funding for five companies that hired the PMA Group last year, according to a review of the earmark requests released on the Congressman's website. Murtha has requested a total of $23.8 million to be directed to these companies.
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Moran requests funds for Samueli Institute
By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:39 p.m.The press release is here. The Washington Post profiled the research facility a while back:
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Nothing yet from Norm Dicks, C.W. "Bill" Young
By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:14 p.m.As noted here, Rep. Norm Dicks is one of the more prolific PMA Group earmarks, and is number four on the list of top recipients of PMA Group & client campaign cash. Searching Dicks' site, I was unable to find a list of appropriations requests.
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Visclosky shuts out former PMA Group clients
By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 7:54 p.m.Rep. Pete Visclosky was one of the top recipients of contributions from PMA Group. He endorsed some form of investigation of the lobbying firm that was raided by the FBI -- "What form that action takes, who offers it, how it will turn out, I don't know," he said last month. In his fiscal year 2010 earmark requests, just posted online, he requested no earmarks for former clients of PMA Group.
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Bloomberg: Dodd faces campaign cash shortage
By Bill Allison Apr 1, 2009 6:20 p.m.Kristin Jensen and Jonathan D. Salant report that Sen. Christopher Dodd is facing a cash crunch as he gears up for his reelection bid:
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A trillion here, a trillion there...
By Bill Allison Mar 31, 2009 9:33 p.m."History teaches us that an outlay of so much money in such a short period of time will inevitably attract those seeking to profit criminally," the Hill quotes Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, saying.
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AIG bundled for Dodd
By Bill Allison Mar 30, 2009 3:13 p.m.Jennifer Haberkorn reports in the Washington Times:
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Must everything be earmarked?
By Bill Allison Mar 29, 2009 1:45 p.m.Columnist George Will argues that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 -- the bailout bill that set up TARP, is unconstitutional because it delegates legislative power to the executive branch:
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Following Dirty Money
By Bill Allison Mar 27, 2009 3:19 p.m.I like the concept behind what appears to be a new Washington Examiner feature called "Dirty Money" (you can see the latest installment here; I can't seem to find a page where previous installments are archived). I'm not a hundred percent certain though of their methodology of determining why certain contributions are dirty--if it's merely a company or organization that had employees or members who've committed crimes (embezzlement is one listed), that doesn't necessarily seem to taint the organization's donations. I think a little more context is needed to determine whether the employees were embezzling from the organization (which would seem to make the organization a victim) or if the embezzlement was part of a management scheme to victimize others.
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