House members spent $20.3M on mailings
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U.S. House members spent $20.3 million in tax money last year to send constituents what's often the government equivalent of junk mail Â meeting announcements, tips on car care and job interviews, surveys on public policy and just plain bragging.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities were mixed in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $20 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.480 percent, up from 2.475 percent last week. An additional $17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 2.710, unchanged from the previous week.
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From $500,000 for a teapot museum in North Carolina to $450,000 for plants on the east side of the Capitol, the federal government spends hundreds of billions every year for grants, contracts, earmarks and loans. With creation of a new federal Web site, citizens will at least be able to see where some of their tax money goes.
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Unions and big communications companies spent more than &#36;1.1 billion in their efforts to elect lawmakers and influence the government over the past half-decade, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Republicans had a $20 million advantage over Democrats at the beginning of the month as the parties entered the fiercely paced final leg before Election Day.
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Much of the nation&#39;s media makes it seem as if soft-money spending on campaign ads by the so-called &quot;shadow parties&quot; is a Republican thing.
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The Washington Post Co. earned $82.5 million in its third quarter, the company reported Friday, well above the $19.9 million it earned in the year-ago period, when results were weighed down by expenses for
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Republicans in tight re-election contests were unloading contributions they received over the years from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is trying to fend off the DemocratsÃ¢ÂÂ determined campaign to score a net gain of at least 15 House seats in the Nov. 7 elections Ã¢ÂÂ which they need to take control of the House. And Republican leaders have been pressing their politically Ã¢ÂÂsafeÃ¢ÂÂ members who have surplus campaign funds to ante up ever more money for the GOPÃ¢ÂÂs effort to extinguish the Democratic threat.
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The House voted to approve a $146 billion fiscal stimulus package, hoping to quickly seal a fast-paced deal with the Bush administration. But Senate Democrats forged ahead with their own, more expensive plan.
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Republican White House hopeful Mitt  Romney spent almost $20.5 million in the second quarter on his  campaign, nearly double the party front-runner Rudy Giuliani,  according to election filings made public on Friday.
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Doctors would get $3 for every patient signed up to use an electronic health record under terms of a new House bill introduced today.
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Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb raised $3.5 million the past three months, the first substantial cash infusion into his campaign but less than half that raised by Republican incumbent Sen. George Allen.
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The House, seizing a rare moment of bipartisanship to respond to the economyâs slump, overwhelmingly passed a $146 billion aid package that would speed rebates of $600-$1,200 to most taxpayers.
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The latest campaign finance reports filed late Thursday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ House campaign committees show that both spent freely in the run-up and immediate aftermath to the Nov. 7 elections.
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Â· Clinton's rival raises record breaking $32m in a monthÂ· Schwarzenegger endorses Republican frontrunner
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Rep. James T. Walsh (R-N.Y.) spent last year aggressively fundraising and campaigning for what promised to be a very close election in his toss-up district in Syracuse. A 10-term House veteran and senior member on the coveted House Appropriations Committee, Walsh raised more than $780,000, almost...