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Embattled financial services chairman hits up friendly industry for campaign dollars
By Keenan Steiner Feb 16, 2012 3:19 p.m.Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., under investigation for possible violations of insider trading laws and facing a primary challenge over his close ties to the banking industry, will be seeking campaign help from that industry on Monday.
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Online poker lobby gives timely donations to pair of congressmen pushing its cause
By Keenan Steiner Oct 14, 2011 2:06 p.m.Congressman Joe Barton, who is now lobbying the special deficit panel to legalize Internet poker, got some not so subtle nudges from the Poker Players Alliance when he introduced his own online poker bill in June.
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Financial reform fundraising: Are lobbyists for Wall St. firms hosting hundreds of events for lawmakers?
By Anupama Narayanswamy May 11, 2010 1:31 p.m.Sam Geduldig, a lobbyist for high profile financial firms, banks and credit card companies who has the ability to "kill legislative threats to his clients," is listed as a host on 18 invitations to fundraisers for Republican members of Congress and their leadership committees, a Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group review of Party Time data from January 2009 to the present has found.
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Bad dates: ProPublica notes lack of accuracy in campaign finance data
By Bill Allison May 3, 2010 12:09 p.m.ProPublica's Sebastian Jones notes what for us has been one of the most maddening features of campaign finance data: the dates don't mean very much at all. Campaigns report when they receive money, and political action committees report when they donate it. In theory, those dates should match, but as Jones points out, they don't:
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Looking up cram down opponents in Party Time
By Bill Allison May 6, 2009 10:05 p.m.This post is all research and no results -- that'll come later. I wanted to take a look at a vote my colleague Paul Blumenthal referred to with the title (quoting Sen. Richard Durbin) "They own the place." The "they" in question are financial sector firms, the place is Congress; at issue is a bill, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 -- or rather, an amendment to that bill -- that was voted down by a 51-45 margin.
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