David Sirota

The House Dems who helped the GOP kill reconciliation bill got more than $3 million from oil, pharma: two industries possibly targeted by the legislation.

It's great that Cuomo is leaving, but make no mistake: His legacy of lawlessness lives on.

New data suggests a promised-but-abandoned initiative could have limited the foreclosure crisis and even kept Donald Trump from being elected.

Decades after Bernie Sanders first ran bus trips to Canada, President Biden has a bipartisan opportunity to end drugmakers' ability to lock Americans out of lower-priced medicine.

A new Treasury Department report reveals how few millionaires get audited, with billions of dollars uncollected. Progressive Democrats are demanding a crackdown.

Working 9-5? If only. As millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet, Dolly Parton's song is tweaked to glorify the gig economy and a 12-hour workday.

The new president had a front-row seat in watching a bad-faith Republican opposition kill a key health care initiative. Did he learn from that Obamacare retreat?

If he wants to claim his FDR moment, the new president has a stark choice: make friends or make progress. There are tough lessons for the Left, as well.

Republicans used the CRA to repeal 14 Obama administration rules including those designed to strengthen workplace safety, wage, environmental and consumer protection. Democrats can invoke the same law to undo Trump rules.

In a shrewd play for $2,000 stimulus checks, Sanders is leveraging a Pentagon bill to try to secure aid for millions of struggle Americans

Loeffler And Perdue are in position to end this battle right now, but they're backing McConnell's power-play instead.

The Texas Democratic hopeful voted for GOP bills that Trump critics say have helped big banks, undermined the fight against climate change and supported the president's anti-immigrant agenda.

The education secretary's floating mansion was moored at an Ohio dock but was registered in a Caribbean archipelago.

The payday lending and title loan industry has been battling the CFPB since Congress created the bureau in 2010—and the fight has intensified since the bureau started crafting rules to regulate short-term lending in 2015.

If you want a peek at Trump's grandiose infrastructure plan, look at how Indiana rode the privatization of public roads into a ditch.

Arkema, the company whose Houston-area chemical plant spewed "noxious" smoke on Thursday, successfully pressed Trump administration regulators to delay new safety measures.

Endowment wealth is becoming concentrated in the hands of the few—and universities aren't using it to reduce tuition or widen enrollment.

Trump promised to make universities' tax breaks contingent on schools' willingness to reduce tuition prices—and lawmakers are now considering bills to do just that.

On Friday, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin will reintroduce legislation requiring billions of dollars of government spending to go only to projects that use American steel.

The SEC has allowed pharma CEOS to block shareholder resolutions that seek detail on price increases for major medicines.

A new study finds that just 12 percent of publicly traded corporations in the S&P 500 disclose lobbying expenditures.

The president's roster of economic advisers will oversee policies that affect their former employers.

Trump's deregulatory push could target rules that prevent companies from owning too many media properties.

Colorado's attorney general—who has received fossil fuel industry donations—is suing to block local restrictions on fracking.

The sponsors of the House-endorsed bill have been heavily supported by donations from the finance industry.

Labor nominee would be in a position, if confirmed, to decide whether UBS can continue to manage billions in assets after admitting to helping customers evade taxes.

The possible 2020 presidential hopeful opposes recreational marijuana legalization but has received support from the alcohol industry throughout his career.

The pending regulation would force Wall Street firms to put clients' financial interests above their own, but Trump could end up killing it before it's ever implemented by Congress.

Earnings calls from multiple industries feature excitement over the prospect of lower taxes, less regulation.

Still-valid regulation bars federal officials from participating in government business affecting their former employers for their first two years.