I was a part of a massive team that analyzed Congress' most recent financial records.
Here's what we found:
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Madison Hall
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Politics and Data Reporter & Corgi Bureau Chief at . Houston raised, Mizzou Made '19| Long live the Ever Given
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Fascinating new story from about how robocall scammers are spoofing 1-800-MEDICARE to steal identities and defraud the health care system and the obvious fix that could solve the issue
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2024 may be the last time a Senate seat in California becomes available for decades.
The politicians sitting on the list of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's replacements aren't exactly the youngest, so it may be now or never for them to advance their careers
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Proxy voting is now gone in the House, thanks to Kevin McCarthy and the GOP. There's a chance the decision comes back to haunt them.
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Freshman Rep. George Santos has been the focus of many lately after it came out that he repeatedly lied about his background while on the campaign trail.
Here're the six ways Santos' situation could possibly get resolved:
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I remember hearing that Cawthorn closed his district offices as soon as he tried running in another seat. Well reports that Cawthorn didn't even turn in casework to his successor. #NC11
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In the end, these 77 members of the 117th Congress violated a law that Congress passed to govern its own stock trading and financial investment behavior. Via :
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A new development with Sam Bankman-Fried's political spending: US authorities allege he and others donated to politicians and committees using others' names, also known as a "straw donor" scheme.
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In conjunction with Dr. Meredith Wills, Insider found evidence MLB used three distinct baseballs in 2022.
The balls show up in distinct places in our sample.
Oh! A player got a stern warning from the league for trying to help.
Balls don't lie, Part 2:
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NEW: The effort to ban lawmakers from trading stocks has fizzled — for now.
"I care deeply about this," says . "I also want us to fund the government."
My look at how Congress ran out the clock on ethics reform + what could come next year.
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NEW: Three major trade association PACs lost tens of thousands of dollars to thieves, @byMadisonHall scoops businessinsider.com/theft-fraud-tr
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Inspired by the striking reporting of and for last year, Insider’s investigations team decided to take a comprehensive look at killings of transgender people over the past five years.
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Top Democratic leaders in the US House just got younger.
A *LOT* younger.
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Excited to take part in this tomorrow!!
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I will be on this! It will be fun and informative and neat, hosted by @davelevinthal and featuring @byMadisonHall @leonardkl + @eyokley @cameron_easley of @MorningConsult twitter.com/i/spaces/1Mnxn
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Total eclipse of the h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶ Yeehaw
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A source recently told me my new haircut was "french chic" so at least I've got that going for me
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A source recently told me my new haircut was "french chic" so at least I've got that going for me
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Finally moved back to NYC!
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⚡️ “How retirees are funding and fueling political candidates unlike ever before” by @PoliticsInsider
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I charted the rise in the proportion of congressional donations from self-identified retirees here:
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For @PoliticsInsider's "Red, White, and Gray" series, I wrote about how retirees have begun contributing more and more to congressional campaigns over the last 10 election cycles, and now account for $1 out of every $5 raised by candidates
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As someone who formerly went through each member of Congress' disclosures and could barely read some of them... this is nice to see
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Exclusive: @RepSpanberger and @RepDustyJohnson are introducing a bill later today to require congressional financial disclosures to be filed *electronically.*
The “Easy to READ Act” aims to solve the persistent problem of deeply illegible disclosures.
businessinsider.com/spanberger-joh
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Come for the interviews with seniors who make hundreds of political donations every year, stay for the mesmerizing animation of Ben Franklin. Via :
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People think that the advanced age of American government is a problem and there’s pretty much landslide popular support for term limits and age caps.
Support is both bipartisan as well as holds in every age demo @politicsinsider/ polled
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SCOOP: Senate Democrats are *also* punting a vote on legislation banning members of Congress from trading stocks until after the midterms, tells me.
"It's not going to happen before the election."
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This is a part of Insider's ongoing "Red, White, and Gray" series, where we're examining the costs, benefits, and dangers of life in a democracy helmed by those of advanced age.
Take a look!
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US legislators are the oldest they've been — the percentage of Congress over 70 jumped from 9% in 2000 to 23% in 2022.
Meanwhile, half of the country is 38 or younger, yet only 5 percent of American lawmakers can say the same right now
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Love to get towed AND ticketed for good measure
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Dog days of summer
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Live a little. Write directly into the CMS
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We have now fully recovered *all* the jobs that were lost early in the pandemic
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NEW: The last time abortion rights emerged victorious at the ballot box in a Republican-leaning state was in North Dakota in 2014, four election cycles ago. That streak was broken on Tuesday night in Kansas. @PoliticsInsider
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House Minority Leader @GOPLeader said shouldn't be allowed to write a congressional stock trading ban because of her husband Paul Pelosi's frequent stock trades.
Via and :
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Huge news from this morning — the House plans to bring a Congressional stock trading ban to a vote next month
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What's particularly interesting is that the disclosure specifically notes that Paul Pelosi suffered a "total loss of $341,365" from the trades
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NEW: @SpeakerPelosi's husband just dumped his @NVIDIA stock ahead of Congress' "CHIPS" bill vote.
Details from @byMadisonHall of @BusinessInsider: businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-s
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This is my favorite type of journalism, bar none
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The case against invoking the Defense Production Act to save the Choco Taco taskandpurpose.com/news/analysis/
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