Washington, D.C. – Lobbyists and political action committees from the mortgage, insurance, and financial industries are hosting a fundraising event for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this afternoon just steps from the U.S. Senate. Sen. Grassley recently backed the industry and opposed legislation to allow judges to renegotiate mortgages. The fundraising event drew strong criticism from Public Campaign Action Fund, a campaign finance watchdog organization.

AMA “acting like a typical special interest,” says campaign finance watchdog group

 

Washington, D.C. – The American Medical Association has spent $204.4 million to influence Congress and Administrations over the last ten years, and another $26.2 million in campaign contributions over the last two decades, according to a Public Campaign Action Fund review of data at the Center for Responsive Politics website.

Washington, D.C. – The nine Republican Senators who sent a letter today to President Barack Obama to express their opposition to a central part of his health care plan have benefited greatly from health care and insurance industry donations, a new analysis from Public Campaign Action Fund shows.

Washington, D.C. – In a statement issued today, the nonpartisan watchdog group Public Campaign Action Fund denounced Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) recent statements opposing health care reform as “hazardous to America’s health, and a gift to profitable insurance industry donors at the expense of working families and small business owners in Kentucky.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.–In a nod to the oil and gas industry, Republican Senators voted against cloture on the nomination of David J. Hayes to be Deputy Interior Secretary. A Public Campaign Action Fund analysis of campaign finance data found that the 38 Senators who voted against the nominee received more than four times the amount of donations, on average, from Big Oil than those Senators who voted for him—$456,757 compared to $110,696.

Washington, D.C. – Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb.) ties to the health and insurance industries raises serious questions for Nebraska residents about their Senator’s views on health care reform, according to a new report issued today by the nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group Public Campaign Action Fund.