Beijing Winter Olympics’ corporate sponsors are also big lobbying spenders
The 2022 Winter Olympics kick off in Beijing this week backed by the sponsorship from deep-pocketed corporate partners with histories of heavy lobbying spending in the U.S.
National parties and their super PACs enter 2022 with record war chests
National political party committees and super PACs affiliated with party leadership started 2022 with a record $517 million in the bank, a substantial increase from the same time in previous election cycles.
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Amid rebrand as Meta, Facebook set a new lobbying spending record in 2021
Meta, the new name adopted by Facebook in a recent rebrand, spent over $20 million on lobbying in 2021, breaking the $19 million record it set the year before.
See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:
Kyrsten Sinema courted Republican fossil fuel donors with filibuster stance (The Guardian) “Sinema isn’t up for re-election this year, but she’s fundraising full-tilt,” Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of OpenSecrets, told the Guardian. “By her comment to oil-industry attendees last week, she clearly knew her vote to protect the filibuster would please them.”
The donor king of Chicago: Ken Griffin splashes midterm cash (Politico) Griffin’s quick start on midterm giving follows $64.9 million in super PAC donations in 2019 and 2020, including $37 million that went to the Senate Leadership Fund. It made Griffin the fourth-biggest super PAC donor in the nation for that election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.
