Gov. Scott Walker’s deal gives Foxconn — which admitted dumping chemicals in a Chinese river — an exemption from statutes that protect Wisconsin wetlands.
Business advocacy organizations and Koch-affiliated political groups have been gearing up for tax reform — spending millions to influence it.
Wisconsin state representative Chris Taylor attended ALEC’s annual conference to find out what bills Corporate America is pushing — and she told IBT why the group wants a new constitutional convention.
New York Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are giving the insurance giant millions in tax breaks to persuade the company to move its headquarters. Does this kind of deal benefit taxpayers?
“The Democratic party is in deep trouble,” says the author of "What's the Matter With Kansas," because the party’s Wall Street fealty has destroyed its ability to successfully challenge Donald Trump and Republicans.
The Midtown East proposal will allow higher skyscrapers — which means higher revenue for the New York real estate developers who collected donations for the mayor in the names of their wives and other family members.
In a Colorado fight over fracking, emails show constituents begging lawmakers to keep wells away from schools — while industry representatives sent invitations to “receptions” and “seminars.”
To the fury of progressives, the Democratic congressional campaign group is relying on the party’s conservative wing and Wall Street money to help win back the U.S. House.
A new book argues that Obama’s Justice department became “The Chickenshit Club” — creating the conditions for a white-collar crime spree.
The U.S. stock market has seen a major boom since Donald Trump was elected, with the private prison, defense, finance and materials industries making big gains. Gun manufacturers and coal companies, however, have seen better days.
Executives overseeing UnitedHealth's pharmacy benefit management said they were working to lower drug costs for consumers. The multiple plaintiffs who’ve filed class-action lawsuits against the company might disagree.
While the bank’s CFO wouldn’t comment on major financial regulatory measures, Goldman spends big on efforts to influence policy.
The California senator — in the spotlight thanks to her sharp interrogations of Jeff Sessions and other officials — met with major Democratic fundraisers last weekend.
Talking to investors on their second-quarter earnings calls, Jamie Dimon railed against the “stupid shit we have to deal with,” while Citigroup CEO Corbat looked forward to having more “people in the seats” with power over bank regulation.
Republicans have slipped provisions into appropriations bills to prevent the SEC from requiring companies to disclose their political spending.
President Donald Trump’s defenders say Don Jr., in seeking opposition research from a Russian, did no more than a DNC consultant who wanted information about Trump’s campaign manager from Ukrainian Embassy staff.
Buck McKeon, a former GOP lawmaker who represents both Saudi Arabia and Lockheed Martin, also pushed through last month's sale of $500 million worth of precision-guided munitions to the Kingdom.
IRS forms released Wednesday showed which industries donated to the Republican Governors Association under new chairman Scott Walker.
Behind what many frame as a battle in the name of either consumer protection or legal-system waste lies a fight between big bank and attorney lobbyists with vested interests.
The education secretary's brother, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, developed an Afghan military strategy that leaned more heavily on private contractors.
The vice president's political action committee courted potential donors at the offices of a lobbying firm that represents Saudi Arabia and Ukraine.
Democrats' move to block a health care initiative they once supported spotlights the party’s populist challenge in the Trump era.
President Donald Trump’s son may have run afoul of federal campaign finance law last June when he met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised “damaging information” on his father’s election opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Justice Antonin Scalia said citizens should be required to “stand up in public for their political acts.” But language inserted in recent appropriations bills protects so-called “dark money” groups, with their anonymous donors, from IRS scrutiny.
President Donald Trump and Congress repealed Obama-era online privacy rules. A California bill would protect the state's users — but tech companies who want to sell browsing histories are lobbying against it.
Department's compliance counsel says Trump officials are engaging in "conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company."
A childhood sexual abuse survivor and victims' rights advocate explains why we need to talk about "stealthing," a practice where a man removes a condom without his partner's consent.
Jerry Brown's former economic adviser says the single-payer bill that California Democrats quashed would have saved the state billions of dollars and been a boon for business.
The New Jersey governor's historically unpopular term ends in January. Is he battling a Kushner competitor in hopes of finally landing a Trump administration job?
Jeff Bezos assembled a team with ties to Obama and Bush Justice department antitrust chiefs — and likely Trump’s as well.
