The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Has a New Corporate Megadonor
Amazon donated $1.7 million to the group last year as it faced allegations of illegal anti-union work.
Amazon donated $1.7 million to the group last year as it faced allegations of illegal anti-union work.
The reps had campaigned to overturn a Trump-era tax hike on the wealthiest Americans.
Nearly all of it is coming from PACs of companies like Amazon, Humana, Raytheon, and Pfizer.
The group will spend money to protect incumbent Democrats in safe districts against progressive primary challengers.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) received PAC donations from the fossil fuel, finance, and insurance industries in a record fourth quarter haul while killing the Democrats' signature bill.
As he chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Manchin's board mates seek to influence him on energy policy for their coal industry clients.
Virginia's notoriously lax ethics and campaign finance laws are the targets of a slew of bipartisan reform bills scheduled for hearings in the weeks ahead.
The Business Roundtable increased its lobbying spending last year by 70% over the previous year as its members pushed to pass the infrastructure bill first and kill the Build Back Better Act.
Rearden represented Chevron in its case against environmental and human rights attorney Steven Donziger, according to reports.
Executives at well-connected corporate consultancies voted to approve DNC Chair Jaime Harrison's slate of "at-large" members, which included several new corporate lobbyists.