Education lobbying groups boost spending as Biden administration sets to reverse Betsy DeVos-era policies
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July 1, 2021
This week in money-in-politics
Education lobbying groups boost spending as Biden administration sets to reverse DeVos-era policies
Education groups have already spent more than $20 million in the first quarter of 2021 lobbying members of Congress for more funding as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona proposes a $102.8 billion education budget. The 2022 fiscal year budget would reverse many Betsy DeVos-era education policies.
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** FEC to consider use of campaign funds to pay candidate salaries, health care costs
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A coalition of campaign finance reform advocacy groups are teaming up to change how candidates pay their health care expenses and salaries while they’re on the campaign trail.
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** Tom Perez’s Maryland run could put fundraising at the forefront of the race
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When former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez launched his Maryland gubernatorial run last week, he also launched what will surely be an expensive fight for the governor’s mansion.
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** Business, climate groups split on bipartisan infrastructure deal
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A bipartisan group of senators and President Joe Biden announced a compromise infrastructure framework Thursday, which earned praise from leading business groups but drew concern from progressive and environmental groups.
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Secretive ‘dark money’ network launches anti-critical race theory campaign
A deep-pocketed “dark money” group is spending “well over $1 million” on an ad campaign against the inclusion of racial justice topics in K-12 curricula.
The Concord Fund is a conservative dark money group better known as the Judicial Crisis Network. It registered Free to Learn Action as a “fictitious name” — or legal alias — on June 21, the Daily Poster reported Thursday.
Free to Learn’s website does not disclose its relationship with the Concord Fund and describes itself as a “nonpartisan” group dedicated to promoting education without “pressure or requirements to subscribe to a singular worldview and activist curriculum with a political agenda.”
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COVID-19 upended foreign lobbying priorities. Here’s how some countries shifted their U.S. influence campaigns during the pandemic.
As Covid-19 rates soared in 2020, many countries shifted their lobbying priorities, and poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into coronavirus pandemic-related influence campaigns in the United States.
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** Billionaire megadonor James Simons hires new team of lobbyists as he seeks influence in Biden’s Washington ([link removed])
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Billionaire and Democratic megadonor James Simons has hired a new team of lobbyists as he seeks to influence a federal government now led by President Joe Biden. Simons and his wife combined gave more than $26 million to Democrats during the last election cycle, including major contributions to super PACs backing Biden. Simons also spent millions on efforts to maintain Democratic control in the House and flip the Senate blue.
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Many companies are transforming their brands to show support for the LGBTQ+ community. But their political contributions appear to tell a different story. OpenSecrets executive director Sheila Krumholz joined CBSN to discuss.
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Team Blue PAC’s three founders were in the top 13 corporate PAC money recipients among all House Democrats in the 2020 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets. Sewell’s more than $1.6 million raised from corporate PACs places her seventh among House Democrats, while Gottheimer’s over $1.3 million puts him eleventh and Jeffries with nearly the same amount comes in at thirteenth.
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