Josh Keefe

The Democratic Governors Association received contributions from nearly two dozen pharmaceutical companies in the first half of 2017, including some that are being sued by states for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.

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.

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.”

The public weighed in on Trump’s voter fraud panel in extremely colorful —okay, profane — terms. Read at your own risk.

Republicans have slipped provisions into appropriations bills to prevent the SEC from requiring companies to disclose their political spending.

IRS forms released Wednesday showed which industries donated to the Republican Governors Association under new chairman Scott Walker.

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.

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.

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?

Despite record donations from party groups, centrist Jon Ossoff couldn’t win the Georgia special election. Will Democrats take Bernie Sanders’ advice and start backing progressives?

The complaint was filed against longtime Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz by a government accountability group.

The billionaire activists and their allies are bankrolling the drive to convene a Constitutional convention, and the effort is not as far-fetched as you might think.

Except for one Republican defector, the House voted along party lines to pass the Financial CHOICE Act and advance President Donald Trump's anti-regulatory agenda.

The “Alliance” that paid for the ad doesn't have to disclose its donors and counts Tomi Lahren, Rudy Guiliani and Newt Gingrich as advisers.

Connecticut state senators fighting alleged price-gouging by insurers faced resistance from the state's executive branch, where conflicts of interest abound.

President Donald Trump wants to give the nation's air traffic control system to a private corporation — which could quickly come under control of the airline industry.

... And now progressive groups want those Democratic lawmakers to return the money.

ExxonMobil shareholders are debating a proposal that would disclose the oil giant's lobbying efforts — including payments to trade associations lobbying against measures ExxonMobil publicly supports.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo names real estate mogul Steve Roth to Penn Station task force after getting $345,000 worth of campaign cash.

Democrat says White House aide Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs president, is pushing a plan that "could be worth a fortune to Goldman.”

Goldman Sachs wants to buy U.S. infrastructure, and the bank's former president is the Trump administration official in charge of privatizing public assets.

Richard Uihlein, one of the Republican party's biggest donors, is already funding ads attacking Wisconsin's junior senator ahead of the 2018 election.

The former Connecticut senator had ties to a variety of groups that could have benefited from having an ally in the FBI.

Environmental prosecutions have declined in recent years, but 2017 could see the fewest in two decades.

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman appealed a ruling that required the state's oil and gas commission to protect public health and the environment.

Voters in Los Angeles will vote Tuesday to decide the most expensive school board race in U.S. history — and maybe the future of charter schools in the city as well.

First quarter lobbying disclosures show the energy sector has an interest in legislation that could penalize Russia for interfering in last year's election. Meanwhile, Russian groups hired their own lobbyists to work the Capitol.

If confirmed, David Bernhardt will transition from lobbying on behalf of fossil fuel companies to overseeing their drilling rights.