Center for Responsive Politics

In spite of all this year’s ambiguity surrounding corporate tax rates, free trade deals, price regulation and employee health policy, retailers have found relatively little to scream about by way of legislation. Eight months into 2017, the industry has spent $31,236,209 on lobbying efforts,...

Actually, not much. At least, not as much as they’d spent under other presidents or other diplomatic circumstances. Since the start of his term, President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of the “Mother of All Bombs,” called to increase military presence in Afghanistan...

Members of Congress saw their collective personal wealth increase by more than 16% between 2008 and 2009, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics. Further, nearly half of Congressional members - 261 - are millionaires, a slight increase from the previous year, the Center's...