Politico looks at the winners and losers in earmark reform. The House’s competing partisan pledges to crack down on earmarks have defense firms and lobbyists racing to assess the fallout.
Month: March 2010
Federal Election Commission data and political contribution totals
The Post reports on a recent Federal Election Commission compilation of campaign contribution data here. A little-noticed Federal Election Commission report released this month — and spotted by Washington Post congressional guru Paul Kane — shows that the three main Democratic committees raised more than twice as much from large donors as their Republican counterparts […]
Keeping California lawmakers’ travel secret
This AP report discusses why California lawmakers’ travel is being kept off the public record. (Via Alan Silberberg.) California lawmakers charged taxpayers for airfare totaling $2 million over a recent 2 1/2-year period, but the Legislature, citing security concerns, won’t disclose the destinations or produce proof that all the trips were for official state business.