Investigating Power
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.
As one U.S. senator denounces Betsy DeVos’ record in Michigan, six others are demanding President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Education Secretary untangle the “complicated web of political and not-for-profit organizations” she has spun over her career pushing a corporate education agenda nationwide.
It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus, but it’s time for progressives to focus on the outer rings, where the Koch brothers, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and their corporate cohorts have laid siege to our state governments.
A donation of $100,000 will get you a one-on-one coffee with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and access to more than a dozen other private political events throughout the year, according to a sliding scale menu of benefits for donors to the Louisiana congressman.