Steel producers, eyeing new infrastructure investment, spend big on lobbying
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill comes after the entire industry spent nearly $6.9 million in lobbying expenditures through the third quarter of 2021. At this rate, the industry is on track to exceed the nearly $8.9 million spent on lobbying in all of 2020.
OpenSecrets' Sarah Bryner and Pete Quist collaborated with the Center for American Women in Politics, to provide new data for CAWP's recent report examining fundraising in 2020 state legislative elections and showing that women continue to lag behind men as political donors.
See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:
Sinema's shift: 'Prada socialist' to corporate donor magnet (The Washington Post) The concessions she helped win align with the interests of many of her donors who have made Sinema the Senate’s No. 3 recipient of money — nearly $500,000 — this year from the pharmaceutical and financial services sectors, according to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics.
Why GOP Leaders Can’t Keep Paul Gosar in Line (Mother Jones) Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of money-in-politics watchdog OpenSecrets, says that shift traces back to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, which allowed unlimited amounts of money to flow to outside spending groups, such as the super-PACs that can upend a race without notice so long as they are not coordinating with a candidate.
