Jackson's company renewed a Georgia Department of Behavioral Health contract on July 22 — running past the next governor's inauguration. On August 12 he told voters he didn't want 'even the appearance' of an ethics problem.
AT&T, Verizon and the wireless industry's trade group gave Mike Rogers $95,000 over two decades. He wrote a bill to let them hand customer data to the NSA without a warrant — then went to work for AT&T.
A European law says the world's biggest companies have to look for forced labor and child labor in their supply chains. Eight Republicans we track put their names on a bill to open a trade fight over it. The law doesn't touch small businesses at all.
Microsoft alone booked $18.7 billion — the biggest single-year federal tax break any public company has ever recorded. Meanwhile 88 profitable corporations paid zero. ITEP says the 2025 budget bill and the 2017 tax law are part of why.
Tiffany is attacking David Crowley over data centers while taking money from the industry's registered lobbyist — and the coalition that lobbyist works for fought the exact NDA ban and tax change Tiffany now says he supports.
Three roll calls tell the story: yes on the 2005 energy bill loaded with oil and gas subsidies, no on the price gouging ban, no on the energy independence bill the American Petroleum Institute opposed.
The consumer complaint database has published more than 17 million complaints filed since 2011, and advocates say nearly 6 million people got money back or a credit report fixed. The agency now says the stories consumers wrote have 'minimal' value.
The 60 Plus Association was started with Koch money in 1992. It bragged in 1997 that it was the first seniors group to back privatizing Social Security, and it has pushed to turn Medicare into vouchers. Eleven House Republicans and an independent who caucuses with them took its award anyway.
Vivek Ramaswamy bought a discarded Alzheimer's drug for $5 million, put his mother on the payroll to reanalyze the failed trial data, and raised $315 million. Twenty days before the drug failed again, SoftBank put $1.1 billion of new equity into the parent company. A California teachers' pension fund lost more than $1 million.
