Amanda Becker
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann has assets worth up to $2.8 million, the largest of which are the building housing her husband’s psychotherapy clinic and a family farm, according to disclosure forms she filed late Friday.
Amanda Becker
Mitt Romney's diverse investments, board positions and lucrative speaking engagements have propelled the former Massachusetts governor's worth to between $190 and $250 million dollars.
Janie Lorber
While most of the lobbying surrounding Congress' new deficit committee will be focused on easing the pain of massive cuts, a sliver of K Street will be on the prowl for ways to help clients by sneaking in provisions that might have little chance of passing otherwise.
Meredith Shiner
Congress moved no closer to ending a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday, with frustrations boiling over from the White House to the Capitol and the majority of lawmakers away on August recess.
Meredith Shiner, Jessica Brady
The debt deal between the White House and Congress has been law for less than 24 hours, but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are already expressing skepticism about a new “super committee” and its ability to come through with at least $1.2 trillion in additional budget savings.
Daniel Newhauser
The idea of a fast-tracked Congressional vote on deficit reduction that would be forced by the forthcoming Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction is not entirely unprecedented. But the committee does appear to have more power than any preceding Congressional panel.
Shira Toeplitz
Think redistricting will be over next year? Think again. There’s a possibility that several key states will go into overtime, with lawsuits dragging the process past the 2012 elections.
Daniel Newhauser
In order to cut trillions from the U.S. budget, Congress will have to spend a little money first. The debt deal struck by President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders calls for the creation of a Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction — and with a new committee comes a new set of expenses.
Ambreen Ali
Activists on the far right and far left might be angry at Congress, but they are fracturing with party leadership in a similar fashion, with each side decrying the debt deal for not going far enough.
Janie Lorber, Kate Ackley
Two of the biggest spenders on lobbying, the health care and defense industries, might end up working against each other in a furious four-month campaign focused on the deficit reduction committee-to-be.
Daniel Newhauser
On a recent Thursday, an Architect of the Capitol employee stood alone at the counter of the Capitol’s only post office, putting stamps on envelopes for his monthly bills.
Janie Lorber
The decision to add a balanced budget amendment requirement to the House debt ceiling plan may have won over several conservative organizations on Friday, but tea party activists and their beltway cheerleaders remained staunchly opposed.
Emily Heil
With Dr. Brian Monahan’s note last week declaring Rep. Michele Bachmann in “overall good health” and saying that the Minnesota Republican’s migraines are controlled with medication, the nonpartisan and normally under-the-radar Office of the Attending Physician was thrust into a highly charged debate.
Ambreen Ali
A political action committee that raised more than $1 million from tea party and conservative activists in the last election cycle spent very little of that money actually supporting candidates.
Kate Ackley
Lobbyist Dan Cohen was hired this year to set up the first Washington, D.C., office for a company called Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. — it provides complex services for financial transactions — but he is still trying to get pictures on the walls.
Alex Knott
Several House lawmakers have made their spouses and other relatives the highest-paid workers on their campaigns over the past few years.
Janie Lorber
A group of prominent conservatives, led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese, is trying to reinforce the notion in conservative circles that issues such as faith, gay marriage and abortion are inherently tied to deficit reduction and limited government.
Humberto Sanchez
Senate confirmation of the first openly gay judge last week could portend greater diversity on the federal bench, something President Barack Obama has made a priority.
Meredith Shiner
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) canceled a weekend Senate session Friday while issuing a serious warning to President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who are now negotiating a debt deal without him: Don’t neglect the interests of Congressional Democrats.
Amanda Becker
Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) is poised to offer an amendment to the legislative branch appropriations bill that would cut the funding of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics by 40 percent.
Amanda Becker
Plagued by infighting, allegations of improprieties and the collapse of its investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters, the Ethics Committee on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of hiring an outside counsel to review the panel’s operations and decide whether the probe of the California Democrat can move forward.
Steven T. Dennis
Support surged in both parties Tuesday for a $3.7 trillion deficit reduction outline proposed by the "gang of six," but leaders warned that it might have come too late to have much effect before the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling.
Eliza Newlin Carney
On the eve of an election that will be marked by record spending and newly relaxed rules, campaign finance reform champion and ex-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) said the laws he helped write are still standing — but just barely.
Jessica Brady, Steven T. Dennis
House Republican leaders are at least a week away from pressuring their Members to support a Plan B debt deal under discussion in the Senate.
Amanda Becker
The Office of Congressional Ethics began just 13 investigations in the first half of 2011, about a third of the number of cases that it opened during the same period last year, according to a report released by the office Monday.
