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Congressman Introduces Money in Politics Amendment

Today, Rep. Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota, introduced an amendment to the U.S. Constitution in response to the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision allowing unlimited corporate political donations. ... read full article »

British Lobby Firm Admits to Using ‘Dark Arts’

Executives at one of Britain’s largest lobby firms, Bell Pottinger, have been caught in an undercover operation nonchalantly admitting to using a whole repertoire of “dark arts” to change Google search results and Wikipedia entries, and influence public opinion. ... read full article »

Billionaires Pick Their Candidates

The Washington Post reports today that many of the country’s 412 billionaires have picked their presidential candidates and started writing checks.... read full article »

Job Offers on K Street for Top Senate Aides

With its record-low job approval ratings and bitter infighting over passing basic budgets, Congress didn’t seem to be doing much of anything this year. Lobbying firms predict that in 2012, it will be doing even less. ... read full article »

Can You Buy Yourself a Presidential Pardon?

Dale Critz, Jr., an heir to a luxury car dealership fortune in Savannah, GA, was posed to take over the family business. The one snag? Many automakers won’t let felons own their franchises.... read full article »

All in the Family

Conflict of interest much? Roy Blunt, a Republican Senator from Missouri, speaks out on the proposed AT&T merger and has a son lobbying for the company.... read full article »

Occupy Protesters Regrouping, Planning for 2012

The Associated Press today writes that the spirit that originally started the nationwide Occupy protest movement is alive and well, despite recent police crackdowns in several cities.... read full article »

Occupy DC Targets Democratic Fundraiser

Occupy DC marched on two Democratic party fundraisers taking place blocks from the White House.... read full article »

Stat of the Week: What does Obama do once every five days?

Barack Obama has attended an average of one fundraiser every five days in 2011.... read full article »

United Republic in the News

In an article published yesterday in Roll Call, a newspaper targeting Capitol Hill, United Republic was profiled along with several other new groups working to curb the influence of special interest money in Washington.... read full article »

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