Investigating Power
As the third-ranking member of the U.S. House, Majority Whip Steve Scalise spent the past year flexing his political fundraising muscle – bringing in a nearly $16 million haul for himself and other Republicans during a crucial period that saw the GOP win majorities in the House and Senate and take the White House.
A presidential administration assembled in Trump Tower and at Mar-a-Lago resort is built in part with Pittsburgh money.
ALEC, Climate, Environment, Koch, RAGA
Senate Democrats raised another set of conflict of interest concerns about Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who has been nominated to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The first thing to catch your eye about the latest fundraising flier from House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, is the size of the solicitations.
The Center for Media and Democracy has discovered a pamphlet advertising how much donors will have to pay to chat with one highly influential congressman.
As Oklahoma attorney general, Scott Pruitt took part in a “deeply disturbing” effort defending gas and oil companies against climate fraud allegations.
On the heels of Kentucky, New Hampshire and Missouri now appear poised to become states with so-called right-to-work laws.
One-third of the Trump team has ties to the Koch brothers.
JUST HOURS AFTER passing the very first bill of the new Congress on Wednesday — one designed to roll back a range of environmental and consumer regulations — House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., celebrated with a corporate lobbying firm at a fundraiser for his campaign committee.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency has resigned as chairman of a group critics say has helped attack the agency he’s been tapped to lead.