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FCC requires online posting of political ad files
By Keenan Steiner Apr 27, 2012 10:51 a.m.Handing open-government advocates a partial victory in a better than decade-long battle, the Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require major network affiliates in the top 50 TV markets to post information about their political ads online.
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Whither stimulus contracts?
By Bill Allison May 18, 2009 9:52 p.m.The Washington Post's Kimberly Kindy reports that the Dept. of Energy is awarding stimulus funds to companies specializing in nuclear clean-ups that have a mixed track record:
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Congress' Family Business, John Murtha edition...
By Bill Allison May 12, 2009 4:17 p.m....continues in the Washington Post. Read the whole thing. Do
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Congress' family business, John Murtha edition
By Bill Allison May 5, 2009 3:38 a.m.From the Washington Post:
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Roll Call makes PMA Group articles available online
By Bill Allison May 4, 2009 4:31 p.m.In conjunction with the appearance of Paul Singer on C-Span's Washington Journal this morning (his bit starts about 1:03:30 in on the video), Roll Call has put online its amazing body of work tracking the PMA Group, the defunct lobbying firm under federal investigation that, along with its clients, provided oodles of campaign cash to more than 100 members of the House while securing hundreds of millions in earmarks for its clients.
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Congress' family business, Chris Dodd edition
By Bill Allison May 4, 2009 4:02 p.m.Edmund H. Mahony and Jon Lender of the the Hartford Courant report on Sen. Christopher Dodd's wife:
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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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Examiner calls for more transparency in TARP
By Bill Allison Apr 16, 2009 5:33 p.m.They mention Anu's report of how difficult it was just to get the names of the folks manning the TARP desk. The editorial is here. Key passage:
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Download TCS's earmark request spreadsheet
By Bill Allison Apr 8, 2009 2:55 p.m.Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense announce that they have a downloadable spreadsheet with what looks to me to be the definitive list of links to earmark request disclosures from House members. The Hill gives some good examples of how hard it is to find the disclosures.
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Prairie Parkway dead?
By Bill Allison Apr 2, 2009 6:51 p.m.So says Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet:
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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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NPR: Charges against Stevens dropped
By Bill Allison Apr 1, 2009 1:11 p.m.Sen. Ted Stevens testified that he and his wife had "lots of things in our house that don't belong to us" in his trial on charges that he'd failed to report tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from an Alaskan company that sought his favor; he was found guilty, but charged prosecutorial misconduct (claims that seemed to have merit). Now NPR reports that the Justice Department it will drop all charges against Stevens:
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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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