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Name: Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) Position: Born in
Salt Lake City in 1933, Robert "Bob" Bennett hails
from a well-connected Utah family. He is the grandson of the seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the son of a former four-term U.S. senator. After ...
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Republican Senator Robert Bennett Seeks to Permanently ...
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Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: PALIN'S BOOK TOUR DE FORCE: Folks in Michigan waited in line for hours to see former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on tour for her new book, Going Rogue . The former governor of Alaska also offered to ...
Congress
Sarah Palin
Al Franken
Christopher J. Dodd
Rob Simmons
James Risch
Saxby Chambliss
Total to Current Members of Congress since
1989: $23.3 million (53 percent to Republicans)
Total Lobbying Expenditures since 1998 : $264.2 million
The U.S. economy faltered after the subprime mortgage meltdown, but these investments weren't the only obligations that many ...
Congress
Barack Obama
John Boehner
Spencer Bachus
Tim Johnson
Pete Sessions
Paul Kanjorski
Name: Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) Position: Although Bachus isn't new to the House Financial Services Committee , he's relatively new to the committee's ranking member position, which he assumed in 2007. Bachus competed with Rep. Richard Baker (R-La.) for the spot and won after arguing that ...
Congress
Spencer Bachus
Bank of America
Appropriations Committee
Baron Hill
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) revealed his version of a health-care reform package last night, hoping to win over three moderate Democrats who are on the fence -- Sens. Ben Nelson of ...
Congress
Health care
Blanche Lincoln
Harry Reid
Washington Post
Robert Byrd
Bill Nelson
Total to Current Members of Congress since
1989: $110.5 million (50 percent to Democrats)
Total Lobbying Expenditures since 1998 : $1.3 billion
Risk and uncertainty are as certain as death and taxes. So, to share the burden of risk and hedge against the full financial ...
Congress
Charles Schumer
Barack Obama
Gwen Moore
John McCain
Earl Pomeroy
John Boehner
Name: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Position: As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee , Barney Frank is busy this year in ways he may not have expected when he assumed the post in 2007, just before the country's economy slipped into a recession. Since 2003, the Massachusetts ...
Congress
Barney Frank
Appropriations Committee
Like Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him, President Barack Obama continues to reward donors, fund-raisers and other loyalists with plum diplomatic posts. Obama has now elevated 24 of his high-profile fund-raisers to diplomatic posts with the rank of ambassador ...
White House
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton
John McCain
Rudy Giuliani
Emily's List
Total to Current Members of Congress since
1989: $168.5 million (55 percent to Democrats)
Total Lobbying Expenditures since 1998 : $781.6 million
Mass property foreclosures and plunging property prices precipitated a veritable real estate crisis last year. A glut of available ...
Congress
Charles Schumer
Joe Lieberman
Johnny Isakson
Robert Menendez
Christopher J. Dodd
Kirsten Gillibrand
Name: Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) Position: A native of Rhode Island, Reed was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. Prior to that, he was a three-term congressman in the U.S. House, and prior to that he served in the Rhode Island state senate for six years. He earned a master's in public ...
Congress
Jack Reed
Appropriations Committee
Bank of America
Michael Bloomberg
Afl Cio
Christopher J. Dodd
Sure, our " Crossing Wall Street " series this week is comprehensive, answering your questions about which financial industries are spending big bucks to influence the outcome of financial regulation legislation.
But you might want to do some snooping around of your own. That's why we're ...
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Foreign Policy
John McCain
Charles Schumer
Barney Frank
Spencer Bachus
Like in the health care reform debate , financial regulation legislation has divided members of the same party, opening a rift between liberal and moderate Democrats. But unlike the health care reform debate, where the moderate Blue Dog Democrats have been rabid in their opposition to a ...
Congress
Melissa Bean
Jim Himes
Ron Klein
Dennis Moore
Michael Bloomberg
Joseph Crowley
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from around the world of money in politics: ANOTHER OBAMA BUNDLER HEADED TO TROPICAL AMBASSADORSHIP: On Monday night, the Obama administration announced its intent to nominate Beatrice Wilkinson Welters to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the island nation of ...
Congress
Scott Murphy
Barack Obama
Charlie Crist
William Jefferson
Hillary Rodham Clinton
John McCain
opensecrets.org - 5 days ago
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As the United States continues digging itself out
of a recession, the nation is poised to re-emerge
in a dramatically altered financial climate. And after years of enjoying relatively little regulation, commercial banks, credit companies, hedge ...
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Crossing Wall Street
Total to Current Members of Congress since
1989: $79.1 million (53 percent to Republicans)
Total Lobbying Expenditures since 1998 : $384.4 million
Congress often acts as a type of bank for bankers themselves -- a place executives can direct their cash, perhaps hoping to collect ...
Congress
Washington Post
Barack Obama
Melissa Bean
Bank of America
Dennis Moore
Michael Bloomberg
Name: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
Position: A fifth-generation Alabamian and University of Alabama alumnus, state loyalty flows through Shelby's crimson blood. So do conservative politics. Party loyalty is another matter. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat, ...
Congress
Richard Shelby
Shelby Steele
Appropriations Committee
Canada
Federal Reserve
Christopher J. Dodd
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from around the world of money in politics: CROSSING WALL STREET: As the United States continues digging itself out of a recession, the nation is poised to re-emerge in a dramatically altered financial climate. And after years of enjoying relatively little ...
White House
General David Petraeus
Barack Obama
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from around the world of money in politics:
THOU SHALT NOT LOBBY: At least one Democratic lawmaker isn't thrilled with the role the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops played in helping strip the House's version of health care reform of provisions covering ...
Congress
Washington, D.C
Michele Bachmann
Timothy Geithner
Health care
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: READ THE BILL IN PLAIN ENGLISH?: Legislation in Congress is written in a dense legalese that frequently references other sections of U.S. Code that can be difficult for a layman or a lawmaker to comprehend. Given this ...
Congress
David Vitter
ABC News
Bart Stupak
Emily's List
In observance of Veterans Day, the Center for Responsive Politics will be closed today.
Therefore, it'll be a slow day here on the Capital Eye blog . We'll return Thursday with our daily Capital Eye Opener report, articles on the influence of money in politics and weekly e-newsletter.
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