Julie Bykowicz
covers the influence of money and lobbying in Washington, and covered the state legislature and city crime for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years.
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, among the coffee guests.
Cantor at White House: ‘Lovely Wives’
This is a day of new beginnings. On the morning that President Barack Obama stands to deliver the inaugural address for his second term, he has some guests in at the White House this morning: Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia...
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Maryland Attorney General Joseph Curran shakes Jim Brady's hand outside the U.S. Supreme Court during a news conference on filing a law brief. Brady was injured when John Hinckley, Jr. attacked President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Sarah Brady’s Gun Control Worry: Getting All to ‘Work Together’
One year ago, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, one of the oldest gun-control advocacy groups, began reinventing itself with a focus on public education. It hired a new president, a New York advertising executive with no background in...
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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, holds hands with her husband, Mark Kelly, while exiting Town Hall at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown, Conn. after meeting with Newtown officials on Jan. 4, 2013. Giffords also met with families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
Giffords Gun-Control Packs Texan Cash: Trial Lawyers in for $1 Million
Steve and Amber Mostyn, wealthy Texas trial attorneys, said today that they are giving $1 million to help start the gun-control advocacy group formed by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly. Steve Mostyn, one of...
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Former White House press secretary James Brady, his son Scott, and his wife Sarah visit the Brady Briefing Room at the White House.
Brady Debuts Online Videos as Gun-Control Battle Heats Up
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence today debuted a trio of online videos featuring actors, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting and the parents of a young woman killed in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting. The actors’...
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Congressmen walk down the steps of the House of Representatives at the Capitol as rank and file members adjourned for several days, in Washington, on Dec. 6, 2012.
Debt Group Airing Sunday Show Ads
More than a month after Election Day, the political TV ads keep coming. A group of business leaders urging Congress to avert a $600 billion mix of tax increases and program cuts set to begin in January is taking its...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner after the weekly House GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 12, 2012.
Republicans Receive Primary Threats Over Fiscal Deal
A letter to House and Senate Republicans circulating today bluntly warns that social conservatives will unite to vote them out in 2014 primary elections if they adopt President Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes. “Let us also remind you that...
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Ralph Reed, president of the national Faith and Freedom Coalition, addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition on June 3, 2011 in Washington.
`Stained Glass Ghetto’ A Trap for Republicans, Ralph Reed Warns
Ralph Reed, who helped build the Christian Coalition in the 1990s, says House Republicans should fight to retain charitable tax deductions and child tax credits as they negotiate with President Barack Obama on avoiding automatic spending cuts and tax increases...
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Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is projected during a news conference at the opening of Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Marina Bay Sands Resort & Casino in Singapore.
Super-PACs’ Last Gasp: Mixed
Federal Election Commission reports due last night show a blitz of last-minute super-political action committee action in key Senate and House races. The late investments yielded mixed results. Less than three weeks before Election Day, a super-PAC backing Virginia Senate...
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Tea Party supporters cheer at the Tea Party Unity Rally in Tampa, Florida.
Tea Party Inc.: Think Tanks, PAC Roil
The Republicans’ anti-tax Tea Party wing, which failed in its goal to oust President Barack Obama and the Senate Democratic majority, is rising to leadership positions in policy and activist groups that have guided the party’s direction for years. South...
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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during press conference in Arlington, Virginia, on May 2, 2012.
Pro-Gingrich Super-PAC Head Still ‘Winning’
Three days after Election Day, Rebecca Burkett collected her 14th paycheck from Winning Our Future, a Federal Election Commission report filed today show. No matter that the super-political action committee’s preferred presidential candidate had dropped out some six months earlier....
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Al Hunt
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Mark Silva
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Emma Fidel
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Don Frederick
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Gregory Giroux
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Julie Bykowicz
covers the influence of money and lobbying in Washington, and covered the state legislature and city crime for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years. -
Jonathan Salant
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Richard Rubin
covers federal tax policy. He worked at Congressional Quarterly and The Charlotte Observer before joining Bloomberg News in 2010. -
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
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Lisa Lerer
covers the White House and covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News. She covered Congress, lobbying and the 2008 campaign for Politico. -
John McCormick
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Julianna Goldman
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Hans Nichols
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Margaret Talev
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Cary O'Reilly
is Editor at Large at Bloomberg First Word and is Washington Daybook columnist for Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg News.
