Dan Eggen explains. The dispute also underscores the increasingly sophisticated, campaign-style tactics used by corporations and unions to press their positions in Washington, from drink makers condemning proposed soda taxes to the sweeping PR battles that swirled around the health-care debate. But unlike those cases — where the policies in question would have broad impacts […]
Month: July 2010
Times attacks on Citizens United
This editorial in The Times discusses Citizens United and the Supreme Court’s latest term. It was not a thoroughly disappointing term. But the tone and posture of the court’s conservative majority made clear that it is not done asserting itself in redefining campaign finance laws, the rights of corporations, national security powers and the ownership […]
Earmarks “hard to suppress”
The Times reports on how companies are dealing with congressional earmark policies. Adopted because of repeated scandals over wasteful spending — the bridges to nowhere and expensive pet projects like a water-taxi service — the ban was intended to help eliminate earmark abuses. Critics say spending on earmarks, which added $16 billion to the federal […]