The consumer complaint database has published more than 17 million complaints filed since 2011, and advocates say nearly 6 million people got money back or a credit report fixed. The agency now says the stories consumers wrote have 'minimal' value.
The 60 Plus Association was started with Koch money in 1992. It bragged in 1997 that it was the first seniors group to back privatizing Social Security, and it has pushed to turn Medicare into vouchers. Eleven House Republicans and an independent who caucuses with them took its award anyway.
Vivek Ramaswamy bought a discarded Alzheimer's drug for $5 million, put his mother on the payroll to reanalyze the failed trial data, and raised $315 million. Twenty days before the drug failed again, SoftBank put $1.1 billion of new equity into the parent company. A California teachers' pension fund lost more than $1 million.
Wagner's net worth has grown by an estimated $22 million since she was sworn in. She chairs the subcommittee that oversees the SEC, she's invested in private equity — and people who work at private equity firms are among her biggest donors.
One donor's company paid $9 million to settle federal claims it lied to get a pandemic loan forgiven. Another pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff casino scandal and was pardoned by Trump last month.
In his first three campaigns, private prison PACs gave Garbarino $2,500 total. Since he took over the committee that oversees ICE, they have given him $30,000 — more than any other member of Congress, and from three private prison companies at once.
340B is why small-town hospitals can staff an ER. Rural CEOs say they'd be out of business without it. Downing's argument for scrutinizing it is that fewer people are uninsured — after he voted for a bill projected to strip Medicaid from 15,801 people in his own district.
Section 453 was buried in the Interior-EPA funding bill Simpson chairs. It would have shielded Bayer — which has already paid about $11 billion to roughly 100,000 cancer plaintiffs — from failure-to-warn suits. It took Democrats six months to get it out.
His OUTPACE in Space Act tells the FAA to issue a 'blanket waiver' of the reentry rule that protects people on the ground — and to rewrite the rules so rockets can come down over land. He sits on the subcommittee that oversees it. Asked about the timing, his office called the donations 'a separate issue.'