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STOCK Act Passes House - 'Political Intelligence' Omission
Monday, 13 February 2012, 9:28 am | MAPLight.org
B>Feb. 9, 2012 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the STOCK Act today, which omits disclosure requirements for "political intelligence" workers that were included in the version of the bill passed by the Senate last week ( S ... More >>
Research Works Act | $16m to House Reps
Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 10:57 am | MAPLight.org
Jan. 16, 2012 - Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) recently introduced HR 3699 - the Research Works Act , which would reverse the Public Access Policy of the National Institutes of Health that allows the NIH to make peer-reviewed ... More >>
Anti-Drill Ban Legislators Top Oil Fund Recipients
Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 11:55 am | MAPLight.org
Since the spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, seven bills have been introduced that call for a permanent ban on offshore drilling in specific areas and two call for a temporary ban in the Gulf. Other bills allow for more drilling but call for ... More >>
Release of Congress API
Friday, 22 May 2009, 3:21 pm | MAPLight.org
MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization that shows the connection between money and politics, announces the release of its new Congress API. The MAPLight.org Congress API provides live, up-to-date feeds of companies', organizations' and interest ... More >>
U.S. House: 79% Of Contributions Outside District
Monday, 3 November 2008, 5:02 pm | MAPLight.org
U.S. House Members Raised 79 % Of Campaign Contributions From Outside Their Voters' Districts - 91 Members Raised 90 % Or More From Out-Of-District More >>
Dems Voting Yes On Bailout Got 2x More From Banks
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 3:12 pm | MAPLight.org
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives today voted against a $700 billion financial system bailout. MAPLight.org has found that, over the past five years, banks and securities firms gave an average of $231,877 in campaign contributions to each Representative ... More >>
New Committees Tool Tracks Congress River Of Money
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 5:25 pm | MAPLight.org
Web 2.0 Government Transparency Tool Reveals Campaign Contributions Given To All Committee Members, Saves Journalists and Citizen Activists Hours of Research More >>
FISA: Telco PACs Gave $8K to Dems Who Changed Vote
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 2:04 pm | MAPLight.org
House Dems Who Changed Their Vote To Support Fisa Bill, Giving Immunity To Telcos, Received, On Average, $8,359 In PAC Contributions From Verizon, At&T, And Sprint More >>