The latest incarnation of this game will be played at Verizon Center on Tuesday, November 29. No, I’m not talking about the match between the Washington Capitals and the St. Louis Blues. I’m talking about the matchmaking that will be going on in a luxury box where Cliff Stearns will be meeting with lobbyists who are paying money to his re-election campaign in exchange for access to the Congressman.

This year, Timmons has personally lobbied Congress on behalf of the Air Transport Association of America, ASTAR Air Cargo, and US Airways. Timmons was once a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Transportation, but spent most of the 1990s as the head lobbyist for America West Airlines. John Timmons has also written two checks for Paul Gosar’s re-election campaign.

There are only 75 individual contributions to the 2012 re-election campaign of U.S. Representative Rob Woodall. Six of those 75 contributions have come from Pull-A-Part executives. The chances of this happening randomly are absurdly small.

It just so happens that, on the very same day that Mark Valente gave money to Michael Conaway’s re-election campaign, the Director of Administration for Valente and Associates also gave exactly the same amount of money to Conaway.

Lobbyist Henry Ryan isn’t one of Farenthold’s constituents. He lives in Washington D.C., not Texas. So why is Ryan giving money to Blake Farenthold?

Roy Blunt was in South Carolina meeting with members of the 1 percent, the upper crust financial elites who treat members of Congress as portions of their great estates. The 99 percent of Missouri were in Saint Louis today, marching from Kiener Plaza from to the Justice Center.

U.S. representatives who voted in favor of the Coal Residuals Reusal and Management Act took, on average, more than twice as much money from electrical utilities than representative who voted against the bill. Coal money was even more strongly correlated with the vote. Representatives who voted to approve H.R. 2273 took, on average, seven times as much money from coal mining companies.

At That’s My Congress, we certainly don’t get as much done as RADPAC does, but then, we don’t have a staff of seven lobbyists, spending $2,236,118.00 on “political education” so far this year, as Ted Burnes at RADPAC does. The annual budget for That’s My Congress runs at somewhere between $100 and $200.

Republican Senator Scott Brown drove by the Occupy Boston protests against corporate greed last week. He didn’t get out of his car. He didn’t talk to any of his constituents. He didn’t even roll down his window. He didn’t have time for people peaceably assembling to petition for the redress of grievances. That’s old-school constitutional [...]

Orrin Hatch supported radiologists in their effort to restrict the free and open use of medical imaging devices. Then, the American College of Radiology made a big independent expenditure to support the re-election of Orrin Hatch to the U.S. Senate.