Study: Ex-Rep. made use of 'black' budgets
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An independent investigation has found that imprisoned former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham took advantage of secrecy and badgered congressional aides to help slip items into classified bills that would benefit him and his associates.
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Louisiana congressman William Jefferson received more than $500,000 in bribes and sought millions more in nearly a dozen separate schemes to enrich himself by using his office to broker business deals in Africa, according to a federal indictment Monday.
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Spending by contestants and  supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly $4  billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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The head of the Democratic Party said Friday blacks have an added incentive to vote in November: Democratic control of the House would give key committee chairmanships to African-American lawmakers.
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New Yorkâs campaign finance laws allow former candidates to keep spending unused contributions.
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Economic assumptions from President Bush's proposed 2008 budget:
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A noted political scientist joined one of Sen. George Allen's former college football teammates in claiming the senator used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s, a claim Allen dismisses as "ludicrously false."
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It is a well-worn axiom that money follows power. And that was certainly borne out by the mid-year campaign finance reports just filed by all U.S. House members Ã¢ÂÂ which exhibit the strengthened fundraising clout of the Democrats since they captured the majority of seats in last yearÃ¢ÂÂs elections.
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Former state House Speaker Jim Black, once one of the most powerful men in North Carolina government, was sentenced Wednesday to more than five years in prison for illegally taking cash from chiropractors while promoting their agenda.
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The campaign fundraising figures reported by individual House and Senate candidates do not tell a complete or necessarily accurate story of the levels of campaign spending in their races. That is because outside playersÃ¢ÂÂ spending also is a major factor in virtually all of the most competitive races Ã¢ÂÂ including the money put in by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ campaign committees.
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When an 80-year-old white Virginia legislator recently came out against a resolution apologizing for slavery because blacks, he said, should "get over it," he ignited a storm of protests from black leaders.
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Spending by contestants and supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly &#36;4 billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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Allegedly scamming a Virginia businesswoman could prove to be a major mistake for a Democratic congressman from New Orleans.
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Report shows software maker paid $160,000 to one consultant to lobby Congress last year--likely a drop in the bucket of the company's overall government affairs budget.
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House and Senate candidates have spent at least &#36;487 million this election cycle, &#36;130 million more than congressional candidates had poured in by this point in the 2002 races.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his parents recently spent nearly $50,000 to help pay off the campaign debts of Mark Green, who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 2006.
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House Democrats, taking charge of investigations now that they control Congress, grilled the former U.S. occupation chief in Iraq on Tuesday about the way he doled out up to $12 billion of Iraqi dollars without accounting for the money.