A report released by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington shows that politicians elected to Congress in 2010 are disproportionately corrupt – and it’s just their first year in Congress, so they’ve barely had time to get started.

A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.

In November 2010 That’s My Congress reported on a breakfast fundraiser for Senator Scott Brown held at the offices of the Van Scoyoc lobbying agency, 101 Constitution Ave, NW, Suite 60W. 101 Constitution Avenue is the building in the upper-left hand corner of the image you can see to the right. In the lower-left hand [...]

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 [...]

Lincoln Davis, the least liberal, lost his seat. Jim Cooper won re-election, but not with a high margin. Steve Cohen a strong liberal, had a very strong electoral victory.

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 [...]

After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case this spring, limits on how much corporations can spend on independent expenditures in congressional campaigns have been wholly erased. The same corporations that can spend as much as they want on congressional campaigns are also allowed to keep their contributor lists secret. All that the [...]

In the U.S. House of Representatives, one of the primary means by which a member of Congress can demonstrate an interest in an issue, besides the writing or supporting of a bill — is membership in a Congressional Member Organization, also known as a CMO or less formally as a “caucus.” As the 111th Congress [...]

Just 53 political corporations spent a whopping $41,622,820.18 in just one week in their effort to directly influence the outcome of the 2010 congressional races. The $41.6 million in independent expenditures by these corporations during the week of October 3-9, 2010 approximately doubles the $21.2 million spent on independent expenditures in the congressional campaigns the [...]

With the advent of unlimited independent expenditures in the Spring of 2010, corporate political groups have been unleashed to influence congressional elections as they and their undisclosed individual contributors see fit. But although individual contributors to these corporate groups remain shrouded, the activity of the corporate groups themselves is tracked on a daily basis by [...]