Legislative Capture
The Legislative Capture capture lane traces 658 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation Tom Price · Chris Collins · Innate Immunotherapeutics · Zimmer Biomet · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Roger Stone Meets Russian National Offering Clinton Dirt for $2 Million Roger Stone · Michael Caputo · henry-greenberg · Russian Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-29 | Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations Eric Schneiderman · Maura Healey · Claude Walker · ExxonMobil · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-01 | Trump Model Management Lawsuit Dismissed on Technicality Despite Evidence Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Federal Courts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-02-12 | West Virginia Becomes 26th Right-to-Work State, Overriding Governor Veto with ALEC Model West Virginia Legislature · Earl Ray Tomblin · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Network · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-01 | Guardian Exposes Cambridge Analytica's Unauthorized Facebook Data Use for Ted Cruz Campaign Harry Davies · The Guardian · Cambridge Analytica · Ted Cruz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty to Federal Banking Violations Dennis Hastert | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-09 | Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Dennis Hastert Publicly Emerge Dennis Hastert · Jolene Reinboldt Burdge · Steve Reinboldt | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-01 | Russian Internet Research Agency begins Facebook ad campaign to influence U.S. politics Internet Research Agency · Facebook · Yevgeny Prigozhin | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-28 | Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted for Bank Fraud and Lying to FBI Dennis Hastert | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-06 | Oklahoma Governor Signs HB 1749 Banning State Payroll Deductions for Teachers Union Dues Despite Technical Flaws Governor Mary Fallin · Oklahoma Legislature · Oklahoma Education Association · American Federation of Teachers Oklahoma · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-03-09 | Wisconsin Becomes 25th Right-to-Work State, Completing ALEC's Union Destruction Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Scott Fitzgerald · Robin Vos · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-15 | House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers Retires, Enters CNN Commentary and Undisclosed Consulting Mike Rogers · CNN · AT&T · IronNet Cybersecurity · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-18 | Congress Appropriates $120 Million for Unwanted Abrams Tanks for Third Consecutive Year Despite Army Opposition General Dynamics · Mike Turner · Ray Odierno · Rob Portman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization Senator Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Insurance Companies | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-01 | Model Files Federal Lawsuit Against Trump Model Management for Wage Theft Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-12 | Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy Hunter Biden · Burisma Holdings · Joe Biden · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-06 | Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-12 | Attorney General Holder Announces Smart on Crime Initiative: First Federal Retreat from Mandatory Minimums Eric Holder · Barack Obama · DOJ | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-02 | Director of National Intelligence Clapper Apologizes for "Clearly Erroneous" Testimony to Congress James Clapper · Ron Wyden · Dianne Feinstein | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-01 | ALEC Coordinates 139 Education Privatization Bills Across States - Systematic Public School Defunding Campaign American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · Center for Media and Democracy · K12 Inc. · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-15 | Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-02-20 | Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty to $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud Jesse Jackson Jr. · Sandra Stevens Jackson | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner · Loren Cunningham · Bill Bright | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language Rick Snyder · American Legislative Exchange Council · Mackinac Center · Michigan GOP · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation Elizabeth Fowler · Johnson & Johnson · WellPoint · Max Baucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-06 | North Carolina Democrats Win Popular Vote But Lose 9 of 13 Congressional Seats Democratic Party · Republican Party · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · James Taylor · Edison Electric Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-25 | Congress Overrides Army to Fund $255 Million in Unwanted Abrams Tank Upgrades to Protect General Dynamics Ohio Plant General Dynamics · Rob Portman · Sherrod Brown · Ray Odierno · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics Sam Brownback · Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Kansas Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign Color of Change · Coca-Cola · PepsiCo · Kraft Foods · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress Sergei Magnitsky · Bill Browder · Benjamin Cardin · John McCain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-01 | Indiana Becomes 23rd Right-to-Work State Using ALEC Model Legislation Mitch Daniels · American Legislative Exchange Council · Indiana Republican Party · National Right to Work Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-11-13 | STOCK Act Gains Momentum After 60 Minutes Exposes Congressional Insider Trading Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · Brian Baird | confirmed | |
| 2011-06-16 | Rep. Anthony Weiner Resigns After Sexting Scandal and Cover-Up Anthony Weiner · Huma Abedin · Barack Obama · Nancy Pelosi | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-27 | Judd Gregg Joins Goldman Sachs as International Advisor After Banking Committee Role Judd Gregg · Goldman Sachs · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-11 | FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Joins Comcast Four Months After Approving NBC Universal Merger Meredith Attwell Baker · Comcast Corporation · NBC Universal · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-01 | Chris Dodd Becomes Hollywood's Chief Lobbyist After Promising No Lobbying Chris Dodd · MPAA · Motion Picture Association | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-01 | Prison Labor at $0.12-$0.40/Hour Documented: The Thirteenth Amendment's Slavery Exception in Industrial Operation ACLU · Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) · CoreCivic · GEO Group | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-19 | House Republicans Launch Six Years of Symbolic ACA Repeal Votes House Republicans · Speaker John Boehner · Rep. Joe Barton · Rep. Pat Meehan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-03 | Evan Bayh Joins Apollo Global Management and Five Corporate Boards After Senate Evan Bayh · Apollo Global Management · McGuireWoods · Marathon Petroleum · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | 34 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Arizona Becomes First State to Enact ALEC-Inspired Education Savings Accounts - Pioneering Universal Voucher Path Jan Brewer · American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education Task Force · Goldwater Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit Donors Trust · Donors Capital Fund · Koch brothers · Knowledge and Progress Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-21 | FCC Passes First Net Neutrality Rules with Major Wireless Exemption in 3-2 Party-Line Vote Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-03 | ALEC Coordinates Right-to-Work Push After 2010 GOP Midterm Wave American Legislative Exchange Council · Scott Fitzgerald · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-24 | DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response Chuck Schumer · Chris Van Hollen · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-23 | ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall Barack Obama · America's Health Insurance Plans · PhRMA · Max Baucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Clint Woods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | CNP Coordinates Tea Party Movement Through Member Organizations Council for National Policy · Jenny Beth Martin · Tea Party Patriots · Tony Perkins · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-01 | Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2009-07-17 | ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · Jim Messina · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · Stanford International Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands Ralph Reed · Council for National Policy · Faith and Freedom Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-29 | Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges Ted Stevens · Bill Allen · Eric Holder | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-05-08 | Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-28 | Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud U.S. Supreme Court · John Paul Stevens · Indiana Legislature · American Civil Liberties Union · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-12-18 | Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law Trent Lott · John Breaux · Breaux Lott Leadership Group · Patton Boggs | confirmed | |
| 2007-10-02 | Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Henry Waxman | confirmed | |
| 2007-09-16 | Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation Blackwater Worldwide · Erik Prince · State Department · Central Intelligence Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion Roger Vinson · FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · Jonathan Williams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · Carol Lam · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal Bob Ney · Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · James Sensenbrenner · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure Dubai Ports World · House Appropriations Committee · Charles Schumer · Dennis Hastert · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal George W. Bush · Charles Schumer · Dubai Ports World · UAE · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Bob Ney · Tom DeLay · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program James Risen · Eric Lichtblau · New York Times · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal US Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · 9/11 Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance Russell Tice · National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · James Risen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-28 | Rep. Duke Cunningham Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Bribery Scheme Duke Cunningham · Mitchell Wade · Carol Lam · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman Don Siegelman · Karl Rove · Jill Simpson · Leura Canary · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy Tom DeLay | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer William Jefferson · Lori Mody | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower Phil Cooney · Rick Piltz · James Hansen · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street | confirmed |