Washington, D.C.—Public Campaign Action Fund responded to the campaign finance filings of the News Corp political action committee (PAC), News America PAC, for the month of June.

The News America PAC gave $52,500 to the campaign committees or leadership PAC of 18 members of Congress and two other political action committees in the month of June, including the maximum contributions to House Speaker John Boehner’s leadership PAC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Washington, D.C.-Public Campaign Action Fund launched a campaign today calling on members of Congress to fully investigate the possibility that News Corp hacked the telephone records of Americans and to stand firm against the millions of dollars in campaign cash and lobbying fees News Corp. and its employees have used to influence Washington.

Reps. Take $450k in Campaign Cash from Industry

Washington, D.C.—Longtime Republican Reps. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) have pledged to reward big oil and coal interests after taking nearly $450,000 in campaign cash from them over the years, according to nonpartisan campaign watchdog Public Campaign Action Fund’s analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics.

Special interests conflicts everywhere, says watchdog group

New report, called “Lungren’s Give-to-Get Earmarks,” details five 2009-2010 requests were all to help Lungren’s campaign donors

Full report at www.campaignmoney.org/danlungren