Disclosure & Transparency

As part of the debate over “tax reform,” Congress is toying with legislation that would invite unholy alliances between religion and politics.

Amid mushrooming evidence of sexual misconduct by lawmakers there's growing bipartisan support for releasing the names of senators and congressmen who’ve settled sexual harassment complaints.

A single, anonymous donor provided nearly $28.5 million last year to help support the campaign behind the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

The Federal Election Commission, arguably government’s most dysfunctional agency, actually did something this morning.

Americans expect and deserve to know who is bankrolling the political ads that follow them around the internet. In the wake of revelations about Russian use of internet ads to sway the 2016 presidential race, Common Cause and 17,945 members and supporters made that expectation very clear to the FEC, filing comments with the agency last week. In total, more than 150,000 Americans spoke out in comments and petitions with the agency—an FEC rulemaking record.

There’s a bombshell buried in the second-to-last page of the House tax “reform” bill.