Jonathan Salant
covers campaign finance and lobbying in Washington. He was president of the National Press Club and started in Washington in 1987.
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Pedestrians wait in line to cross the border into the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico.
Majority Supports Legal Status for Immigrants Before Securing Border
A majority of Americans favor giving undocumented immigrants legal status without first securing the borders, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll out today. As the Senate prepares to take up legislation that passed the Judiciary Committee earlier this week,...
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Christina King, left, and Lynne Sherrer, center, hold signs during a Tea Party Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demonstration on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
McConnell Joins Effort to Tie Health-Care Law to IRS Scandal
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is adding his voice to those trying to tie the ongoing Internal Revenue Service scandal to the new health-care law, which will expand coverage to more than 25 million uninsured Americans. McConnell, of Kentucky, called for...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray answer reporters questions before a Senate Democratic Policy Committee luncheon meeting at the Captiol on May 9, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Senators’ Finances Run from Debt to Millions
The Senate is run by millionaires while Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio is still in debt. That’s some of the information gleaned today from senators’ annual personal financial disclosure forms. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, reported assets of between...
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Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, left, and former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman confer during a break in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee May 21, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Watchdog Group Files Second Lawsuit Against IRS
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has again sued the Internal Revenue Service over its regulation of nonprofits incorporated under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code. The watchdog group is asking the U.S. District Court to direct the IRS to draft...
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IRS protesters on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tea Party activists organized the protest against the Internal Revenue Service saying they improperly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
IRS Was Wrong to Target Tea Party Groups, ABC-Post Poll Shows
Almost three-fourths of Americans think it was “inappropriate” for the Internal Revenue Service to target Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll out today. A majority of respondents said the government was harassing those organizations. The survey of 1,001...
Read more »Ensign to Join Parents in Paying FEC Fines Totaling $54,000
Former U.S. Senator John Ensign, his campaign committees and his parents will pay a total of $54,000 in penalties resulting from a Federal Election Commission investigation that stemmed from the extramarital affair that ended the Nevada Republican’s political career. The FEC announced...
Read more »House Republican Fundraising Claims Don’t Match Statistics
Updated 1:00 pm EST Visitors to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s website are told how the party “most heavily” relies on small donors while its Democratic counterpart’s “primary sources of funding” include labor unions, trial lawyers and Democratic House members....
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The Capitol in Washington, DC.
Senators Eye 21st Century World of Campaign Finance
The Senate could be on the verge of entering the modern world when it comes to campaign finance. More than one-third of the Senate — 35 senators — have attached their names to legislation that would require candidates to file...
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, second left, is surrounded by members of the media, as he walks through the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 30, 2012.
K Street Woos Ex-Lawmakers as Voters View Congress With Disdain
The revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street keeps spinning, even as the general public doesn’t think highly of Congress. “Attitudes of the American public and their evaluation of Congress probably don’t align perfectly with that of K Street...
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A Facebook Inc. logo.
Facebook Disliked: Environmentalists Challenge Ads for Senators
Facebook is getting disliked by environmental groups and progressive organizations such as Moveon.org in response to ads being run by affiliates of a group created by Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Moveon, Sierra Club and the League of Conservation...
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Al Hunt
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Mark Silva
is deputy managing editor for government news in Washington and editor of Political Capital. He has covered the White House and national politics. -
Emma Fidel
is political editor for Bloomberg.com in Washington. She previously covered financial regulation as a Bloomberg intern. -
Don Frederick
edits political and government coverage for Bloomberg News. He previously worked for more than a decade at the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau. -
Gregory Giroux
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau. -
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
covers campaign finance and lobbying in Washington. He was president of the National Press Club and started in Washington in 1987. -
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
is a national political reporter looking forward to the 2016 presidential campaign, which will be the fifth he's covered. He's also reported for The Des Moines Register and Chicago Tribune. -
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.
