International companies spend millions lobbying on Senate bill targeting U.S. competitiveness
Lobbying filings show that foreign companies based in Asia and the Asian Pacific have lobbied on the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which imposes sanctions on China for human right abuses, and other bills related to boosting U.S. global competitiveness.
Indiana’s secretary of state race on track to be the most expensive in two decades
Candidates for Indiana Secretary of State are raising money faster than in prior election cycles, meaning this race could wind up being the most expensive since 2002.
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Peter Thiel, The Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker (The New York Times) Thiel’s political giving ramped up last spring with his $10 million checks to PACs supporting Vance and Masters. The sums were his biggest and the largest ever one-time contributions to a PAC backing a single candidate, according to OpenSecrets.
La Plata County commissioner candidate accepts cryptocurrency donations (The Durango Herald) According to Pete Quist, deputy research director of OpenSecrets, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that tracks campaign finance and lobbying, cryptocurrency accounts are often identified only by usernames and their digital addresses on trading platforms. This complicates the process when campaigns try to report their donations and can limit transparency.
