How have campaign contributions and lobbying efforts influenced policy on an issue you care about? 13 Articles

by Carol Henrichs

Since the late 1980's, Illinois officials have tried every available means to push a huge public works project to fruition, with a keen eye toward ensuring their own political futures and continuing cycle of self-enrichmen...read more

by Joseph Malek

If you believe that lobbying and other contributions in the form of cash and/or tangible property do not influence the behavior of our elected politicians, you most certainly are living within a World of your own making. O...read more

by Kris Kennedy

Modification of Initiative Process from Lobbying Washington State was one of the first states to offer the citizens the opportunity to make law through the initiative process The initiative process has become a instrumen...read more

by Lynda Kohn

US citizens deserve and need objective people in any and every part of the US goverment in the federal, state and municipal level. There must be no conflict of interest or even any suggestion of a conflict of interest. Men...read more

by Matthew Abuelo

One of the common questions when it comes to politics is, why do Politicians lie? The most straightforward answer, of course, is money and votes. Every elected official within the United States has to walk a fine line betw...read more

by Alexander Mutua

Campaign contributions and lobbying efforts facilitate adequate implementation of policies. In this case, both the public front and political figures form the stronghold that constitute to secure the establish of policy wi...read more

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by David Nuttle

"Political Payola Endangers U.S." After receiving very large campaign contributions from the loan industry in 1982, Senator Jake Garn was influenced to sponsor the Garn St. Germain Depository Institution Act -an act that ...read more

by Cassie Fleming

Facing cameras, microphones and rows of well-dressed lawmakers, the son of an oil man - a former oil man himself - told the nation once again it had been reliant on oil for far too long. In his 2007 State of the Union add...read more

by David Brown

One of the strongest lobbying groups, especially as a Pro-Israel Lobby, in the United States is the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC). When I was a college student in Washington, D.C., I had the pleasure ...read more

by Tabitha Akery

Money is power. When that money is used to influence decisions or reversals of positions, it is called bribery. In the political world, it is called Lobbying. So what is the difference? Absolutely nothing. Unfortunate...read more

by Kristin Schaaf

It's time for politics to put people before profits. The Golden Rule all too often loses out to the bottom line. Greed benefits the select few while the majority are left on their own, and policies that benefit the commo...read more