The FBI hasn't been the only group continuing to investigate lobbying firm PMA Group, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. At the Center for Responsive Politics, we've expanded our original analysis of contributions from the lobbying firm to lawmakers, specifically those o...

President Obama's Tuesday address to Congress was entirely about jump-starting the economy, but he didn't even hint at a looming legislative battle between business and labor that both sides say could affect how quickly the country recovers. The Employee Free Choice Act, also called card-check legis...

When President Obama addresses the nation tonight in a State of the Union fashion, it won't just be Congress and members of the public tuning in. Special interests, too, will be paying close attention to what the president has to say about upcoming plans that could affect them. While the president w...

As the story behind the embattled investment company Stanford Financial Group develops, we thought we'd take an even closer look at the seeds the company may have tried to plant in Washington via campaign contributions. When looking at ALL lawmakers to collect money from the company's PAC and employ...

Money manager Robert Allen Stanford now has two things in common with embattled investment manager Bernard Madoff: both have come under scrutiny for allegedly defrauding their investors, and both have given significant funds to politicians. The Securities and Exchange Commission today accused Stanfo...

The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Cong...

With a tanking economy, warming planet and multiple bloody conflicts abroad, President Obama has his work cut out for him. His biggest challenge, however, might be keeping his campaign promise to transform American politics, according to Robert Kaiser, author of the new book "So Damn Much Money: The...

So far the Obama administration has appeared to make efforts to slow down the revolving door for lobbyists going from the executive branch into the private sector (and vice versa). But does the new president's executive order prohibiting incoming members of the administration from working on issues ...

Although it's unclear to what extent businessman Raghuveer Nayak was involved in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged scheme to sell President Obama's Senate seat, what is clear is Nayak's commitment to funding the campaigns of the governor, the new president, the new vice president and others in...

Name: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Position: Frank will continue his role as chair of the House Financial Services Committee, which he undertook in 2007, just before the country's economy started to slip into a recession. The Democrat had been the ranking member of the committee, which has jurisdicti...