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Real Estate Interests Vie for Transportation Funding
The Center for Public IntegrityVirtually all players agree there is no coordinated vision in setting priorities for federal transportation projects. That vacuum has led to a tidal wave of earmarks by Congress. Quite naturally real estate developers and other interests make great efforts to influence which projects get funded. This map shows where more than 100 real estate interests spent roughly $5.5 million in 2009 lobbying on transportation projects. Built using Flash, jQuery and the Google Maps Flash API. More…
The Health Care Reform Lobby
The Center for Public IntegrityThe graphic breaks down the sectors lobbying on health care reform in Congress in 2009. Graphs are dynamically generated from data loaded from XML. Two seperate versions were also created to embed on other sites and on Facebook. More…
Ginnie Mae's Troubled Issuers
The Center for Public IntegrityA review of government records, court documents, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development statistics raises questions about why some mortgage firms have won Ginnie Mae's endorsement - and the guarantee of U.S. taxpayer money. The story was a collaboration with The Washington Post. More…
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