{"id":302818,"date":"2010-02-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1362"},"modified":"2010-02-10T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:12:13","slug":"snow-snow-and-more-snow-in-capital-eye-opener-february-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302818","title":{"rendered":"Snow, Snow and More Snow in Capital Eye Opener: February 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics, slightly abbreviated today:<\/p>\n

SMALLER GOVERNMENT, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT<\/b>:<\/b> For the third day running, federal government offices are closed thanks to two separate snow storms that have buffeted the nation’s capital. For someone from Buffalo, N.Y., (your humble blogger) this would be an average winter Wednesday. But in Washington, D.C., the city is effectively shut down, as is the Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>, as bona fide blizzard warning<\/a> persist. The federal Office of Personnel Management estimates that the storms have so far cost taxpayers $350 million in lost productivity, the Washington Post<\/i> reports<\/a>. Congress isn’t faring much better, with effectively no business<\/a> being conducted this week.<\/p>\n

CRP IN THE NEWS:<\/strong> Writing in the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader<\/a> is joined by Public Citizen<\/a> President Robert Weissman in decrying<\/a> “the disparities between individual contributions and available corporate dollars” as they pertain to U.S. political elections. Nader and Weissman referece our research about how much federal political campaigns cost … Rep. Norm Dicks<\/a> (D-Wash.) is the focus of this article<\/a> in The Hill<\/em> by reporter Roxana Tiron, who cites our campaign finance data … The Columbia Journalism Review<\/i><\/a>‘s Clint Hendler quotes us at length in his piece about how the news media will react to the Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission<\/a><\/em> decision pertaining to campaign finance law … John DiStaso of the Union Leader<\/em> of Manchester, N.H., uses our lobbying information in noting how Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte has sought major campaign dollars<\/a> from special interests in Washington, D.C.  <\/p>\n

Have a news tip or link to pass along? We want to hear from you! E-mail us press@crp.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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