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Video: All the Capitol Hill fundraisers you can hit in a day

By Chris Steller | 03.20.09 | 12:11 pm

anp3Members of Congress spend one-quarter to one-third of their time raising money to run for re-election, says Harry Hanbury of the American News Project. That thought inspired him to take up a video camera and visit as many Capitol…

Party crashers: Who gets in to the corporate shindigs at the RNC and DNC?

By Molly Priesmeyer | 08.26.08 | 1:26 pm

Forget the stadiums and corporate-named mega-entertainment centers. The real stories are what’s happening at the corporate-themed parties. The Sunlight Foundation’s Political Party Time blog is planning to crash a handful of parties at the DNC and RNC hosted by big-influence lobbyists and corporations to highlight the money funnel that makes up Washington. But so far, the velvet rope is more like a wall of gold bricks.