Watt aide was “Friend of Angelo”
A key former aide to the North Carolina Democrat threatening popular legislation to audit the Fed once received a sweetheart Countrywide loan designed to influence predatory lending legislation introduced by
Representative challenging Fed audit has close ties to American Bankers Association
At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim is reporting that the broad-based, bi-partisan “Audit the Fed” movement is being threatened by an amendment introduced by Mel Watt, a member of the
Geithner’s backdoor bailout
A new report from the TARP inspector general details how Tim Geithner dropped the ball in negotiations with AIG counterparties after the insurance giant’s collapse. As New York Fed president,
Former Eshoo, Barton staffers at center of Genentech scandal
The New York Times revealed today that over 40 members of Congress read statements on the floor that parrotted talking points prepared for them by lobbyists for pharmaceutical giant Genentech.
The Coal Fourteen
Fourteen Democratic Senators stood up for coal yesterday, notes the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson: In a letter to Senate leaders, a bloc of senators with powerful coal interests in their
Following the Chamber money trail, part 2
Now for some eye candy: visualizations of the tabular data I shared in my last post on the US Chamber of Commerce board’s political networks and giving patterns. I’m going
Following the Chamber money trail, part 1
The data is in — as promised, we’ve compiled comprehensive political giving info for every US Chamber of Commerce board member using OpenSecrets campaign contribution data. Current Chamber board members
Deregulation was so much more fun!
Senator Dodd chose an interesting time to release his financial reform bill. Ten years ago this week, Republicans and Democrats joined hands to gut the Depression-era banking reforms known as
Who rules the Chamber?
In the hopes of predicting the next defector from the Chamber of Commerce (following the high-profile lead of Apple), we’ve compiled comprehensive political giving info on the business lobby’s 100+
AARP, AMA endorse health bill
President Obama snatched up endorsements of the health bill by AARP and AMA and will visit the Capitol today to make one last push to lawmakers. (WSJ) Fourteen people are