See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:
As 2023 started, 18 House and Senate campaigns were in debt (Roll Call)
OpenSecrets tabulated that candidates and outside groups spent a record $8.9 billion on the 2022 midterm races. The group’s Brendan Glavin, a senior data analyst, said Democratic candidates outspent Republican candidates in the cycle, while GOP-aligned outside groups outspent their Democratic-aligned counterparts.
Silicon Valley Bank ex-CEO backed Big Tech lobbying groups that targeted Dodd Frank, sought corporate tax cuts (CNBC)
TechNet spent $1.84 million last year on 20 in-house and external lobbyists, the most it invested in lobbying since 2005, according to data from the nonpartisan watchdog OpenSecrets. The trade group had vast coffers to draw from: it brought in more than $4.2 million in membership dues in 2020, according to its most recent financial disclosure form filed to the Internal Revenue Service.
Free IRS TurboTax Competitor Is Closer After Biden Funding (Bloomberg)
It paid more than 60 people to lobby on its behalf, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of public documents, including Mitch McConnell’s onetime speechwriter, Nancy Pelosi’s ex-chief of staff, a former Republican congressman and an adviser to Biden during his term as vice president.
