Apr 24, 2014 ... Members of this Banking Caucus receive massive financial support from the  industry and collaborate with industry lobbyists to block or roll back ... Less than  six years after a massive financial crisis drove the U.S. banking system to the  edge of collapse, leading to a $700 billion government bailout and a ...
Oct 5, 2017 ... The NRA may exert a massive and real influence on Washington, DC, but its  campaign contributions can't possibly be the corrupting agent ... According to the  Center for Responsive Politics, the NRA gave close to $1 million to Republican  senators' PACs in 2014 — or about 1 percent of the $67 million they ...
Jul 3, 2016 ... But the 2005 arrest of “super lobbyist” Jack Abramoff shamed Congress into  action. Abramoff bared the worst excesses of the capital's influence industry,  brazenly feting lawmakers with golf trips to Scotland, sushi dinners and campaign  contributions, opening the door for lobbyists to write legislation ...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld submitted the letter on behalf of Moise Katumbi,  the leading opposition candidate in the Congo's… ... October 23, 2017 |  Washington lobbying groups spent less money and reported fewer lobbyists  during the third quarter of 2017 than in any quarter since at least 2008, when  Center for ...
Jan 14, 2017 ... Now, Mr. Pruitt, tapped to head Donald J. Trump's Environmental Protection  Agency, will have the opportunity to engineer a radical shift in Washington. If  confirmed by the Senate, he is expected to shelve the Obama administration's  aggressive environmental enforcement and embrace a more collaborative ...
He's leading by example, refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists.