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Federal Election Commissioner Caroline Hunter’s term expires today, which means all of the commission members are now serving on borrowed time.
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The top lawyer at the U.S. regulator of national banks left a consulting job where she was paid $1.2 million and advised some of the biggest firms now overseen by her agency, her financial disclosures show.
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Congressional Democrats trying to rein in corporate political spending will seek to pass their legislation by early July, before the 2010 election campaign heats up, supporters of the effort say.
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Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who have criticized Warren Buffett’s approach to tax policy, are largely holding onto their stocks and bonds in the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, a Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat, faces a challenger from an improbable quarter -- a Tea Party-backed lawyer with Latino roots named Ted Cruz.
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A banking trade group is preparing to set up a political fund that would allow members to funnel money anonymously to pro-industry candidates in the final months of the U.S. election campaign.
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As spending by outside groups financed by anonymous donors has escalated in election campaigns, some Republican lawmakers are rethinking opposition to legislation requiring organizations that run political advertisements to identify who’s paying for them.
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Among the 12 members of the congressional deficit-cutting supercommittee, there are committee chairmen, Sunday news show regulars, anti-tax purists, and Patty Murray.
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Since becoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in January, Representative Dave Camp has invited executives from 13 publicly traded companies to testify on tax and trade policy. The chairman owned shares in six of them.
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As he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich has become a de facto spokesman for Lean Six Sigma, a business management concept pioneered by a Dallas entrepreneur who has spent more than $200,000 of his own money to promote the former House speaker’s candidacy.
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