Blue Dog Consultant Working With Anti-Health Care Reform Lobbying Group
Kristen Hawn, a communications consultant, appears on emails with industry-backed groups strategizing against health care changes.
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Pharma-Funded 'Dark Money' Group Hosts House Staffers for California Junket
The staffers, several of whom work for reps on the subcommittee overseeing pharmaceuticals, met with executives from drug companies Merck and Genentech.
Lawyers Defending ExxonMobil Are Big Biden Donors
Two of the Paul Weiss attorneys who successfully defended ExxonMobil in New York against charges that it hid costs related to climate change have given maximum donations to former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg
As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, and three attorneys whose donations were returned.
Conservative Democrat Gets $100k from Oil & Gas PACs in Bid to Fend Off Surging Progressive
Attorney Jessica Cisneros is taking on the fossil fuel-friendly Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar in the 2020 primary.
House Dems Try to Sneak Through Weak Financial Regulator Bill
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a critical derivatives regulator, and a House reauthorization fails to fortify it.
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After Meeting With Pharma-Backed Rep, Trump Flip-Flops on Drug Price Negotiations
After Rep. Greg Walden, the biggest recipient of pharmaceutical campaign cash in the last election cycle, met with Trump, the president decided to scrap his support for lower drug prices.