Companies Slam Voter Suppression Laws Then Donate to Their Sponsors
The companies' donations appear to contradict their public statements in support of voting rights.
The companies' donations appear to contradict their public statements in support of voting rights.
While Congress considered infrastructure and climate legislation last year, reps kept up a stream of trades in oil and gas pipeline company stocks.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is planning a bill to ban stock trading by federal lawmakers and their spouses, but it faces an uphill battle this year.
Many Hill lobbyists opted not to follow their employers' PAC policy and donated to the 147 Republican election objectors in Congress.
Four Republicans with extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry have already said they plan to cross the aisle and support Califf's confirmation to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
The most-cosponsored bill to ban stock trading while in office leaves a huge loophole for trading corporate stocks based on nonpublic information.
Reps among the top oil and gas investors in Congress bought more shares in pipeline companies as the House moved to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Her group, which held its first event earlier this year, shares an executive director with a nonprofit funded by ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical to advocate for carbon pricing legislation.
Donations came from corporations that would likely have been impacted by the bill’s proposals.
A group of Republican senators sought to block U.S. support for an IP waiver for Covid-19 vaccines, a proposal that is strongly opposed by the pharmaceutical industry.