In 2004, the National Rifle Association honored Republican Florida state legislator Dennis Baxley with a plum endorsement: Its Defender of Freedom award. The following year, Baxley, a state representative, worked closely with the NRA to push through Florida’s unprecedented “stand your ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they “reasonably believe” their […]
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Could SOPA and PIPA interfere with State Dept.’s global Internet freedom agenda?
State Dept. spends terrorism and emergency dollars on parties, rented linens and a kitchen By Corbin Hiar August 26, 2011 State Department will inherit reconstruction duties in Iraq when troops leave By Laurel Adams May 16, 2011 State Department FOIA requests unanswered four long years later By Josh Israel July 6, 2011 A peek inside […]
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Drug lobby gave $9.4 million to nonprofits that spent big on 2010 election
Politics Campaign donations, lobbying and influence in government and reports on the special interests that are funding elections and buying power. Stories in this series Where money mattered and where it didn’t By The Center for Public Integrity November 7, 2018 GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson is winning a medal. But are Republicans losing the political […]
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Fixing the fixers
NEW DELHI, India, November 13, 2000 — This article was originally published in the Nov. 13, 2000 edition of Outlook India. It is reproduced with permission. Threats, inducements and plain old hard work get the names of ‘wicket’ players. Now for Act II. Interrogator: Tell us, why did he (bookie Uttam Chand) make so many […]
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A most favored corporation: Enron prevailed in federal, state lobbying efforts 49 times
Enron Corp., which ran a formidable lobbying machine in Washington and state capitals, gained favorable treatment from Congress, federal and state governments and various regulatory agencies on no fewer than 49 occasions from the late 1980s to the company’s bankruptcy in December 2001, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. It has been almost a […]
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Overnight guests at governor’s mansion added $2.2 million to Bush campaign
Sixty of George W. Bush’s overnight guests at the Texas Governor’s Mansion have collectively given and raised more than $2.2 million to further Bush’s political career, an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity shows. At least 15 of Bush’s guests are members of Bush’s elite team of presidential fund-raisers, the $100,000-plus “Pioneers,” according to […]
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Surrogates for their agenda
FDA: A shell of its former self By M. Asif Ismail July 7, 2005 Checkbook politics By Victoria Kreha July 7, 2005 Chances are, the commercial is familiar, seen more often than not at dinnertime: a middle-aged woman begins a discussion by saying, “I can’t even believe I’m talking about this.” The “this” in question […]
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Osama bin Laden still at large
Nine years after Osama bin Laden was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “ten most wanted” list, seven years after President George W. Bush said the Al Qaeda leader was “Wanted, Dead or Alive,” the exact location of the six-foot, five-inch Saudi terrorist remains a mystery. Even before Al Qaeda operatives flew jumbo jets […]
