If there is one clear winner in the muddled war going on in Libya, it is the Raytheon Corporation. Raytheon sells the Tomahawk cruise missile to the United States government with a price tag of more than $1 million per missile. When the arsenal of American cruise missiles needs replacing, Raytheon will supply them at [...]

Senator Saxby Chambliss is leaving the beltway of Washington, DC this weekend. Is he heading home to Georgia, the state he represents? That depends on whether you count Georgia airspace. Senator Chambliss will be heading to the state of Florida instead, where he’ll be hosting a fundraiser for his “Republican Majority Fund”, a “leadership committee” [...]

There are 22 lobbyists listed as hosts with special access to Susan Collins at her lobbyist birthday party. Other lobbyists and representatives of political action committees who aren’t listed at the level of hosts may also be in attendance.

Read investigative reports on the US Chamber of Commerce to influence congressional campaigns and they’ll tell you that the group shelled out approximately $30 million in independent spending. But if you review Federal Election Commission records on independent expenditures, you won’t find any indication that a single penny spent by the Chamber of Commerce. How [...]

According to Federal Election Commission regulations, during the last 19 days before an election, independent expenditures to influence congressional elections must be reported to the FEC within 24 hours. This is true for any person or group shelling out more than $1000 for independent expenditures in an election cycle, a condition met by virtually all [...]

During the week of October 24-30 2010, Federal Election Commission records show that 166 political corporations spent $79.5 million in independent expenditures on congressional campaigns across the United States, either to support or to oppose congressional candidates as they campaigned for office. A breakdown by party shows that: => $26.8 million was spent to oppose [...]

The Clement for Senate campaign is focusing on an education campaign encouraging Democrats and Republicans alike to stop before reflexively voting straight down the party line on the South Carolina ballot, and consider voting according to the merits of the candidate… and specifically to vote for Tom Clements.

The Sunlight Foundation scored a major scoop this month with a report indicating that “Independent” candidate for Senate Lisa Murkowski signed documents for the “Independent” group Alaskans Standing Together to certify that the group wasn’t working “in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, any candidate.” In other words, Lisa [...]

With movies like Speechless and TV shows like The West Wing out there, you might conclude that campaign work is glamorous and glossy. Reality can be a lot different. FEC records show that Cathy Bauman has been compensated just $579 for a month’s work as a canvasser on behalf of the campaign of Senator Michael [...]

Every day that Restore America’s Voice ran its Yahoo ad, only a handful of people bothered to click on it. On two days during the campaign, no one bothered to click on the advertisement at all.