1. OOIDA spells it out

    By Bill Allison Jan 9, 2010 10:24 p.m.

    The Real Time ticker kicked out this new filing with the Federal Election Committee--the OOIDA PAC, which stands for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Political Action Committee. I googled "OOIDA" and found the group's Web site -- it's a remarkable model of candor:

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  2. Cram down look ups, cont. cont....

    By Bill Allison May 13, 2009 3:32 p.m.

    For more detail on what this is, see here. While this is still partially that, it's also turning into something else. As I noted, this is raw research, not a finished product--results to come. One thing I'm finding is that looking closely at slices of data from Party Time leads in all kinds of directions...

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  3. Cram down look ups, cont.

    By Bill Allison May 7, 2009 8:07 p.m.

    More research (see here for details on what this research is. I'm trying to see if there was a flurry of fundraising around the vote on the Durbin amendment to the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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