Just for fun, I thought I’d take ten minutes and see if I can track down another mystery PAC for our friends at the Center for Responsive Politics–this time the Arch Leadership PAC. FEC filings list the PAC’s address as 906 Olive St., Suite 1212, St. Louis, MO 63101. Googling it, I got a lot [...]
Entries from June 2007
Looking into Arch Leadership PAC
June 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Ad Hoc · General Real Time · Leadership PACs
OMB to continue tracking earmarks
June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
They’ve got a release on it here. I can’t tell for sure from the memo, but it looks like Office of Management and Budget intends to track them in both House and Senate bills as they’re reported out of committee, as they’re voted on, and in conference reports as soon as they come out:
Agencies should [...]
Tags: Earmarks
National Endowment Letters Unsolicited
June 1st, 2007 · No Comments
While I wait for word from Fraiola & Associates on the Penguin PAC (see below), I thought I’d go through a five-inch tall stack of papers Anu got in response to a FOIA request for congressional correspondence logs from the National Endowment of for the Humanities. So far, what I’ve seen aren’t letters from members [...]
Tags: Correspondence Logs
Thompson’s FARA Filings Are Not Online
June 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Two of the shortcomings I mentioned about the new database that the Justice Department’s Foreign Agent Registration Unit recently put online are that not every form is available (especially the Short Forms that individual foreign agents must file), and that you can’t link to search results.
Both would be useful in providing the information that Nicole [...]
Tags: Ad Hoc · General Real Time
More fun with mystery PACs
June 1st, 2007 · No Comments
The America Forward PAC’s street address (1831 Bay St. SE, Washington, DC — see here) is the same as that of Evans & Katz LLC, a firm that specializes in campaign finance. They don’t list their clients on the site, but I’ll give them a call tomorrow to ask who’s the leader of the America [...]
Tags: Ad Hoc · General Real Time
Update on Penguin PAC
June 1st, 2007 · No Comments
As I noted at Sunlight’s main site, the Penguin PAC is indeed Rep. Tim Ryan’s leadership PAC.
Tags: Ad Hoc · General Real Time

