Republican primary spending projected to approach or surpass $1 billion Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images Allison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images The Republican presidential primary is getting crowded. With a former president and well-heeled politicians running, plus super PACs boosting them, it all points to what's likely going to be the most money ever spent to …
CNN — Members of sports team families and business leaders are among those pouring their personal fortunes into campaigns for office in 2022, making an early impact on primary contests for key midterm races. Matt Dolan, a state senator whose family owns the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, has directly contributed about $8 million to his campaign, and loaned it $2.5 …
The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it into the ever-shrinking social spending bill. Unusually, in the first half of this year Republicans and Democrats in Congress were virtually neck and neck in pulling in drug industry money, according to a KHN analysis of campaign contributions. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbying …
It was the "ugliest night" the late Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, said he had witnessed in two decades in politics. "If we don't, it's only because 's really trying to kill everything and try to convince their lackeys, as they call them in Congress, not to do anything," House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., who …
