Archive of Public Citizen's Congress Watch's Special Interest and Policy Reports
Below are older Congress Watch reports on issues ranging from Medicare to the airline industry to the tobacco industry.
Money and Politics Reports
Electioneering Non-Profit Groups (Section 501(c) and 527 Groups)
(11/1/02) Cramming for the Midterm: “527” Stealth PACs Raise at Least $115 Million to Influence 2002 Congressional Elections
(10/24/02) Shadowy 527 Groups Continue Soft Money Grab As 2002 Election Approaches
(8/12/02) Second Quarter Stockpile: 527 Political Groups Continue Soft Money Grab During 2002 Cycle
(7/26/02) Review of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Recount Fund and 527 Disclosure Law
(6/6/02) Off to the Races: First Quarter Reports Show that 50 Top "527" Organizations Collected Almost $11 Million in Soft Money; Disclosure Problems Continue
(4/25/02) Rep. Tom Davis Dodges Campaign Finance Disclosure Law
(4/9/02) Deja Vu Soft Money: Outlawed Contributions Likely to Flow to Shadowy 527 Groups that Skirt Flawed Disclosure System
(2/26/02) Congressional Leaders Soft Money Accounts Show Need for Campaign Finance Reform Bills
Additional Reports on Money and Politics
(3/2/01) Killing Us Softly: Soft Money's Phenomenal Growth and Its Harm to the Public
(3/2/01) Reinforcing the Rich: The Consequences of Proposals to Raise the $1,000 Limit on Individual Contributions to Federal Candidates
(10/15/99) Delivering for Dollars: How Campaign Finance Reform Foes Lott and McConnell Delivered for Republican Soft Money Donors in 1998-1999
(1/1/98) Family Values, Killer Industries: Whose Family, What Values?
Airline Industry
(12/19/01) Christmas Comes Early for Boeing
(10/3/01) Delay, Dilute and Discard: How the Airline Industry and the FAA Have Stymied Aviation Security Recommendations
Auto Industry
(10/27/00) Auto Safety Legislation Rolled by Special Interests
Consumers' Legal Rights
Asbestos
(3/9/00) How Special Interests Make Law: GAF Corporation Tries to Buy Liability Protection From Asbestos Claims
Business Lawsuits
(4/30/00) The National Association of Manufacturers: A Study in Hypocrisy
Class Actions
(6/12/03) Unfairness Incorporated: The Corporate Campaign Against Consumer Class Actions
(9/23/99) The Corporate Lobbying Campaign in Favor of the Class Action Bills
Corporate Opponents
(9/9/02) The Chamber's Class Action Ad Campaign: The Real Facts--How the Chamber of Commerce's "Lawsuit Abuse Tax" Ad Deceives the Public About the Costs of Lawsuits and How "Corporate Fraud and Abuse Taxes" Cost the Public Billions
(7/26/00) The CALA Files: The Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Major Industries to Take Away Your Rights
(3/19/96) Smoke and Mirrors: The Tobacco Industry's Influence on the Phony "Grassroots" Campaign for Liability Limits
Medical Malpractice
National Reports
(01/15/2003) Bush’s Medical Malpractice Disinformation Campaign: A Rebuttal to the HHS Report on Medical Liability - Policy Report
(07/30/2002) Equal Opportunity Rate Hikes: Rising State Insurance Premiums Not Unique to Medical Malpractice - Policy Report
State Reports
Arkansas
(01/27/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in Arkansas: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctor's Lobby - Policy Report
District of Columbia
(05/24/05) District of Columbia Medical Malpractice Payout Trends 1991-2004: Evidence Shows Lawsuits Haven't Caused Doctors' Insurance Woes - Policy Report
(04/22/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in Washington D.C.: Evidence Against Proposals to Restrict Compensation to Malpractice Victims - Policy Report
Florida
(09/17/2002) Florida’s Real Medical Malpractice Problem: Bad Doctors and Insurance Companies Not the Legal System - Policy Report
Georgia
(03/31/04) Medical Misdiagnosis in Georgia: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby - Policy Report
(02/16/04) Increasing Doctor Accountability & Patient Safety: Solving Georgia’s Medical Malpractice “Crisis” - Policy Report
Kentucky
(02/04/2004) The Facts About Medical Malpractice in Kentucky - Policy Report
Maryland
(01/15/2004) Dangerous Maryland Doctors - Policy Report
(09/10/2003) The Facts About Medical Malpractice in Maryland - Policy Report
New Jersey
(2/2/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in New Jersey: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctor's Lobby - Policy Report
New York
(10/19/04) The Doctor Is In: New York's Increasing Number of Doctors - Policy Report
(3/2/2003) New York's Most Dangerous -- And Undisiplined -- Doctors - Policy Report
North Carolina
(04/02/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in North Carolina: Challenging the Claims of the Doctors Lobby - Policy Report
Oklahoma
(4/22/04) Medical Misdiagnosis in Oklahoma: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby - Policy Report
Oregon
(8/14/2004) Oregon’s Increased Number of Doctors: Government Data Refutes Medical Lobby Claims - Policy Report
Pennsylvania
(03/05/04) The Facts About Medical Malpractice in Pennsylvania - Policy Report
(01/15/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in Pennsylvania: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctors’ Lobby - Policy Report
Rhode Island
(3/27/2003) The Facts About Medical Malpractice in Rhode Island - Policy Report
Texas
(2/10/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in Texas: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctor's Lobby - Policy Report
Washington
(09/07/2005) Fewer Lawsuits and More Doctors: The Myths of Washington Medical Malpractice "Crisis" - Policy Report
(04/25/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in Washington: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctors’ Lobby - Policy Report
West Virginia
(01/23/2003) Medical Misdiagnosis in West Virginia: Challenging the Medical Malpractice Claims of the Doctor's Lobby - Policy Report
Energy Industry and Enron
(05/5/04) America's Dirtiest Power Plants: Plugged into the Bush Administration
(10/10/03) EPA’s Smoke Screen: How Congress Was Given False Information While Campaign Contributions and Political Connections Gutted a Key Clean Air Rule
(6/16/03) WESTAR: Buying Benefits with Campaign Cash
(5/20/03) Hot Waste, Cold Cash: Part III - Nuclear Industry PAC Contributions to the Members of the 108th Congress (Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project Publication)
(11/1/02) Hot Waste, Cold Cash - Part II in the 2002 Elections Nuclear Industry PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates in Competitive Races (Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project Publication)
(5/13/02) Hot Waste, Cold Cash: Nuclear Industry PAC Contributions and the Senators Who Love Them (Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project Publication)
(4/01/02) Yucca Mountain Bought and Sold: Science Smothered Under a Mountain of Nuclear Lobbyists (Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project Publication)
(12/21/01) Blind Faith: How Deregulation and Enron's Influence Over Government Looted Billions from Americans (Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project Publication) - Policy Report
(2/15/01) Got Juice? Bush's Refusal to End California Electricity Price Gouging Enriches Texas Friends and Big Contributors (Critical Mass Energy and Environment Project Publication)
Gambling Industry
(3/15/01) Folding to the Casino Industry: How Soft Money Buys Congress
(6/14/99) Betting on Trent Lott: The Casino Gambling Industry's Campaign Contributions Pay Off In Congress
Health Care & Rx Drug Industries
Medicare Policy and Drug Industry
(6/24/03) Private Insurance Plans & Medicare: The Disappointing History - Policy Report
(6/23/03) 2002 Drug Industry Profits: Hefty Pharmaceutical Company Margins Dwarf Other Industries - Policy Report
(6/5/03) Bush Plan to Privatize Medicare: Limiting Patient Choice of Doctors in 5 States - Policy Report
(5/15/03) Bush Plan to Privatize Medicare: Limiting Patient Choice of Doctors in Iowa - Policy Report
(4/11/03) America's Other Drug Problem: A Briefing Book on the Rx Drug Debate
(2/13/03) Medicare Privatization: Bad for Seniors and People with Disabilities - Policy Report
(9/23/02) Medicare Privatization: The Case Against Relying on HMOs and Private Insurers to Offer Prescription Drug Coverage - Policy Report
(7/23/01) Rx R&D Myths: The Case Against the Drug Industry's R&D "Scare Card" - Policy Report
Special Interest Reports
(12/21/04) Bush Administration’s Effective Denial of Drug Importation from Canada Appears to be Due to Power of Drug Money, New Report Reveals
(9/20/04) Big PhRMA’s Stealth PACs: How the Drug Industry Uses 501(c) Non-Profit Groups to Influence Elections
(6/23/04) The Medicare Drug War: Drug Companies and HMOs Led an Army of Nearly 1,000 Lobbyists to Promote Misguided Legislation and Increase Profits
(6/23/03) The Other Drug War 2003: Drug Companies Use an Army of 675 Lobbyists to Keep Profits Up
(10/21/02) United Seniors Association: Hired Guns for PhRMA and Other Corporate Interests - October 2002 Update
(7/12/02) United Seniors Association: Hired Guns for PhRMA and Other Corporate Interests
(6/13/02) The Other Drug War II: Drug Companies Use an Army of 623 Lobbyists to Keep Profits Up
(12/1/01) Why Stop At Six Months? Bristol-Myers Squibb Seeks Six Times More From A Patent Extension - An Addendum to Public Citizen's Report "Patently Offensive"
(11/9/01) Patently Offensive: Congress Set to Extend Monopoly Patents for Cipro and Other Drugs
(7/23/01) The Other Drug War: Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists
(11/1/00) Rx Industry Goes for KO: Drug Companies Spend Record Amount This Election Cycle
(9/21/00) Gail Wilensky: Top Bush Health Adviser Stands to Gain Personally from Candidate's Medicare Plan
(7/20/00) Citizens for Better Medicare: The Truth Behind the Drug Industry's Deception of America's Seniors
(7/6/00) Addicting Congress: Drug Companies' Campaign Cash & Lobbying Expenses
(4/5/00) Holding Patients Hostage: The Unhealthy Alliance Between HMOs and Senate Leaders
(3/31/00) Schering-Plough Political Money Pushes Claritin Patent Extension and Distorts GAO Report
(1/26/00) PhRMA's Secret Playbook: "Insider" Documents Show Prescription Drug Industry Continues Campaign to Undermine Support for a Prescription Drug Benefit
(11/9/99) Schering-Plough Political Money Pushes Claritin Patent Extension
(9/30/99) Schering-Plough Plows Ahead with High-Priced Lobbying Campaign for a Claritin Patent Extension
(7/29/99) Can Schering-Plough's Aggressive Lobbying Buy a Claritin Patent Extension?
(3/9/99) Deborah Steelman Collected Nearly $3 Million from Health Industry Interests with Major Stake in Medicare Reform
Regulatory Policy and Corporate Influence
(3/12/01) Safeguards at Risk: John Graham and Corporate America's Back Door to the Bush White House - Policy Report
(1/1/00) Corporate Shill Enterprise: A Public Citizen Report on Citizens for a Sound Economy, a Corporate Lobbying Front Group
Tobacco Industry
(7/26/00) The CALA Files: The Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Major Industries to Take Away Your Rights
(4/1/98) Don't Be Fooled Again: A Report on the Tobacco Industry's Lies and Deceptions - Policy Report
(3/18/98) Burning Down the Houses: Big Tobacco's 1997 Congressional Lobbying
(2/13/98) Sweethearts of Big Tobacco - Tobacco PAC Contributions and 1997 Tobacco Votes
(3/19/96) Smoke and Mirrors: The Tobacco Industry's Influence on the Phony "Grassroots" Campaign for Liability Limits
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