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• U.S. Election Will Cost $5.3 Billion, Center for Responsive Politics Predicts

To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Massie Ritsch, Center for Responsive Politics, +1-202- 354-0111, or press@crp.org

• U.S. Newswire
• October 23, 2008

• The Center for Responsive Politics Holds a News Teleconference On the Total Cost of the 2008 Presidential and Congressional Campaigns

THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS HOLDS A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON THE TOTAL COST OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS OCTO...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 28, 2009

• Statement of Democracy 21, Campaign Legal Center and Center for Responsive Politics On Fec Internet Regulation Issued Today

WASHINGTON, March 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement from Democracy 21, the Campaign Legal Center and the Center for Responsive Politics on the FEC Internet regulation issued today: The new regulation issued by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) today resolves the issues raised in the lawsuit brought by Representatives Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D- Mass.) regarding the application of the campaign finance laws to the Internet.

• U.S. Newswire
• March 27, 2006

• Donation From Missouri-Based Husch Blackwell Boosted Former U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton's Re-Election Bid: Former Congressman Joins Firm As Partner

When former U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton starts this week at Husch Blackwell, he'll work alongside lawyers who helped line his campaign pockets. Husch Blackwell, via its political action committee and employees, was Skelton's fifth largest donor for the last election cycle, according to the nonpartisan group Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• March 20, 2011

• Obama Disengaged From Gulf Oil Spill Disaster

[...] they are demanding leadership. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Obama was the largest recipient of campaign contributions from BP in the last election cycle, receiving $77,051.

• Human Events
• July 19, 2010

• Letters to the Editor

Ken Capalbo, via e-mail According to the Center for Responsive Politics <www.opensecrets.org>, as of the eve of Sept. 14 primary elections, of the six Independent candidates, only one had raised any money at all (Frank Carter, $500), compared to the Democratic nominee, Providence Mayor David Cicilline, who had raised $1.3 million, and his Republican opponent, John J. Loughlin ($470,000). By way of explanation, we are long-time conscientious objectors to paying taxes for weapons and war, and thus we annually re-direct our entire federal income tax liability to non-profit groups doing peaceful, constructive work that attempts to meet basic human needs.

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 8, November 2010

• Us Vs. Them Unions ; Wisconsin Standoff Brings Attention to the Democrats' Dirty Bargain

Republicans in the Wisconsin statehouse had enough of Democratic Party antics designed to insulate its union supporter base from the pains of the economic malaise affecting the rest of us. The state Senate voted Wednesday to ban public-sector employees from entering into collective bargaining arrangements. Union thugs encircling the capitol building made a spectacle of themselves as the Assembly turned to consider the bill yesterday. Meanwhile in Washington, congressional Democrats continue to hold out against the most milquetoast of spending-reduction proposals, despite the dire circumstances of the nation's finances. The longer the squabbles in the state and national capitals drag on, the more time the public has to notice the extent to which the party of Johnson, Carter and Obama loo...

... the National Institute on Money in State Politics. In 2010, public-employee unions gave $77,722,313 ...

• The Washington Times
• March 11, 2011

• Ginsburg the Wealthiest Supreme Court Justice

She may not pull in a lot of laughs during oral arguments, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is laughing all the way to the bank as the Court's wealthiest Supreme Court justice by a long shot, according to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics. With a net worth somewhere between $10.7 million and a whopping $45.5 million, Ginsburg easily tops the list of wealthiest justices, according to the center, which crunched the justices' financial disclosure data from 2009 (the report based on the latest 2010 filings will be unveiled in the fall). Ginsburg's holdings include a $6 million retirement nest egg.

• Lawyers USA
• September 14, 2011

• ; Education Lobby Gathers Big Money to Reconquer Lost Ground

Already, national political fundraising ma- chines are beginning to hum and sputter toward early targets in their quest to break another election cycle's worth of spending records. The nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), was the heaviest contributor to U.S. political campaigns in 2007- 08, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Early indica- tions show it is a front-runner to be so again. Along with its state affiliates, the NEA took in $1.5 billion in revenue in 2008-09, the Education Intelligence Agency notes. Nearly all of this revenue came from member dues, and most of the war chest will be spent seeking to increase spending and to block those school reforms deemed most threatening to union clout. The stakes are high, even by contem...

• The Washington Times
• June 24, 2011

• Party at Odds?

Shortly into his administration, Obama and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation setting up a mandatory cap-and-trade program for coal-fired power plants. [...] the industry contributed at least $380,000 to successful congressional candidates during the same time period, not counting contributions from organized labor or lobbyists, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

• State Journal, The
• November 05, 2009