The passage of Issue 1 has extra significance, because if Ohioans vote “yes” and Issue 1 passes by a simple majority then a radical abortion amendment will likely have a harder time passing in November.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) stated that “deep-pocketed special interests” “will start applying pressure to” Republicans to go along with Democrats on raising the debt ceiling without any spending
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and special interest groups have launched a lobbying campaign to demand more legal immigration to the U.S. so business has a constant flow of cheaper foreign workers to hire for American jobs.
A suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States fueled South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) call to pass legislation that would ban the Chinese Communist Party from buying up land in South Dakota.
A coalition of special interests wants to stop SD Gov. Kristi Noem’s measure restricting the ability of the Chinese Communist Party to purchase land in her state, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The United States Chamber of Commerce, along with other corporate special interest groups, is lobbying lawmakers to oppose a ban on the U.S. federal government doing business with Chinese chipmakers.
House Democrat campaign groups are attacking two Republican House candidates in Texas for using PAC money to help their campaigns, while the Democrat candidates in the same districts have taken a substantial amount more in the process.
Employers in industries that hired the most foreign H-2B visa workers for nonagricultural jobs over the last two decades have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages, a new analysis reveals.
Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) has taken over $100,000 in special interest-funded vacations since his time in office, often bringing his family with him.
Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who will have a tough reelection battle, found a way around his “no-corporate PAC pledge.” Throughout the last 18 months, he has accepted campaign contributions from business and professional interest groups.
The communications director for Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) mishandled the response from the congressional office to an investigation from Breitbart News into the vulnerable Democrat’s decades-worth of lavish travel on the dime of corporate and special interests.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R) endorsed Republican Derrick Van Orden on Thursday to unseat vulnerable Democrat Rep. Ron Kind (WI) in the upcoming midterms.
Democrat Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) has taken more than $110,000 worth of special interest-funded lavish trips, filings with the U.S. House Ethics Committee reveal.
An interesting trend is emerging in American politics whereby Democrats are emerging as the party of financial corruption as Republicans find fundraising success sans corporate dollars. The tectonic political shift could prove significant in the long-run leading into the 2022 congressional midterm elections, and beyond.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) appears to be caught in contradictory statements concerning corporate interests that may have encouraged his veto of Arkansas’ recent transgender surgery legislation.
The newspaper industry lobbied for, and won, a one-year delay for newspaper delivery drivers in a new California bill on the “gig economy” that makes businesses classify workers as employees rather than independent contractors.
Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence listed several of a multitude of Wikileaks revelations surrounding Hillary Clinton and those close to her as he spoke to several hundred Americans gathered for a Trump-Pence rally in Pensacola, Florida on Friday.
Pence made a commitment that a President Donald Trump’s only special interest would be the American people.
Bay Area billionaire and moderate Republican mega-donor Charles Munger, Jr. has proposed a transparency measure, the California Legislative Transparency Act, likely to qualify for the ballot this November. However, Democrats in Sacramento may try to stop it first.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sarcastically thanked “the special interests and the lobbyists” for driving his numbers up at a press conference in Jupiter, FL on Tuesday. Trump began by saying, “One of the things I’m most happy about is that
Tom Steyer is what left-wing activists love to pretend Republican mega-donors are: a special interest with very deep pockets who demands absolute fealty to his agenda in exchange for cash. Of course, since his cause is ostensibly environmentalism, they don’t mind, and the media never mentions him when it launches its periodic tirades against the unhealthy influence of special interests, other than itself.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated, “I don’t accept donations from billionaires who want to influence me, or from special interest groups”, accused fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump of hypocrisy on the issue of donors and special interests, and
California Gov. Jerry Brown may be strutting his stuff at the Paris climate change conference, but environmentalists are fuming over the exclusion of rooftop solar panels from the Golden State’s renewable energy plans.
Twenty California lawmakers will be attending an annual conference at a resort in Maui that is paid for by representatives of special interest groups that lobby the state legislature.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s biggest selling point as a presidential candidate has been his blue-collar populist appeal, and it’s something that clearly shined through on the stage at a forum of GOP presidential candidates in Manchester, New Hampshire, at Saint Anselm College on Monday night.
