Elections
Hispanic Caucus Campaign Arm Spends $2.5 Million in House Races
CHC BOLD PAC has reported spending more than $2 million this cycle to support four Democratic House candidates and oppose two Republicans, with its largest...
Pureline Enters Federal Lobbying With Chemicals, Emergency Focus
Pureline, an Illinois-based chemical manufacturer, filed a lobbying registration on Sept. 26 and engaged Foxhound Advisors LLC. No prior federal lobbying...
National Grid Hires Invariant for Energy Lobbying
National Grid USA Service Co. Inc. is lobbying on Energy/Nuclear issues through a new lobbying registration with Invariant LLC. National Grid has reported...
FEMA Faces $2B Backlog as Disaster Resilience Program Restarts
Hundreds of communities are waiting on more than $2 billion in disaster-resilience funding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has yet to...
VoteVets Backs Democratic Candidates in Key Congressional Races
VoteVets directed millions of dollars in outside spending across candidates it both supported and opposed in the 2026 cycle, with the Iowa U.S. Senate race...
Senate Conservatives Fund Backs Republicans in Key Senate Races
The Senate Conservatives Fund has directed millions of dollars in political spending toward conservative Republican candidates in U.S. Senate races across...
AIPAC Reported Lobbying on Iran and Israel Defense Policy
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) filed an amendment to its fourth-quarter 2025 lobbying disclosure on Sept. 25, covering activity from...
Federal Audit Finds Gaps in Nuclear Security Contract Oversight
A recent report found that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is not consistently using a contracting tool that could improve...
Coordination Gaps in Disability Programs Leave Service Gaps
A new federal review finds that bureaucratic friction between two major funding programs is creating gaps in disability employment services for some of the...
State Department Lacks Anti-Terror Safeguards for West Bank Aid
The U.S. has poured more than $7.8 billion into the West Bank and Gaza since 1993, yet a new GAO report on anti-terrorism oversight of that assistance finds...
Tribal Water Crisis: Federal Rules Block Aid Despite $6B Need
Bureaucratic rules, outdated funding caps, and a lack of operations support are leaving tribal communities without reliable access to safe drinking water,...
Funding Gap Stalls Federal Property Sales Program
A temporary process established in 2016 to shed unneeded federal buildings is running out of time, and a persistent funding gap has slowed it down,...
GAO Finds Judiciary Does Not Track Administrative Space Use
The federal judiciary does not systematically track how much of its 12.2 million square feet of administrative space it actually uses, leaving officials...
And the Winner Is...
Tight midterm races are heating up. That means money. Lots of it.
Détente Center Ends Becker & Poliakoff Lobbying Deal
Détente Center ends lobbying relationship with Becker & Poliakoff in a termination filing signed on Sept. 24.
GAO Says USDA Fell Short of Providing Records on $37B Fund Review
The combined $134 billion directed to USDA and DOE under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was...
Wawa Returns to Federal Lobbying With Taft
After a multi-year absence from federal lobbying, Wawa is returning to Washington with a new firm, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, focused on economics...
IRS Lacks Strategy as Tax Fraud Costs $116B-$304B Yearly
The federal government is losing between $116 billion and $304 billion every year due to tax fraud, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report,...