{"id":382165,"date":"2010-03-04T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1400"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:35:55","slug":"read-transcript-of-no-recession-in-u-s-politics-an-opensecrets-org-web-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382165","title":{"rendered":"Read Transcript of &#8216;No Recession in U.S. Politics,&#8217; An OpenSecrets.org Web Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the transcript of our live Web chat about&nbsp;how money in politics is more plentiful than ever, despite an otherwise dismal economy.<\/p>\n<p>Taking questions were Sheila Krumholz, the Center for Responsive Politics executive director; Dave Levinthal, the Center&#8217;s communications director and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\"><em>Capital Eye<\/em> blog<\/a> editor; and Michael Beckel, the Center&#8217;s money-in-politics reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Among the topics discussed:&nbsp;last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2010\/02\/federal-lobbying-soars-in-2009.html\">record-level&nbsp;federal lobbying expenditures<\/a>,&nbsp;how the 2010 midterm elections will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2010\/02\/midterm-elections-will-cost-at.html\">most expensive midterms ever<\/a> and the&nbsp;effects of the recent&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/capital_eye\/citizens.php\">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission<\/a><\/em> decision on U.S. politics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/index2.php\/option=com_altcaster\/task=viewaltcast\/altcast_code=5cdbebacb2\/height=550\/width=470\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"470\" allowTransparency scrolling=\"no\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/mobile.php\/option=com_mobile\/task=viewaltcast\/altcast_code=5cdbebacb2\" >No Recession in U.S. Politics<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the transcript of our live Web chat about&nbsp;how money in politics is more plentiful than ever, despite an otherwise dismal economy. Taking questions were Sheila Krumholz, the Center for Responsive Politics executive director; Dave Levinthal, the Center&#8217;s communications director and Capital Eye blog editor; and Michael Beckel, the Center&#8217;s money-in-politics reporter. Among the topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}