Bob Biersack

Center for Responsive Politics

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Senior Fellow at the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics; co-author of After the Revolution: PACs Lobbies, and the Republican Congress and Risky Business?: PAC Decision-making in Congressional Elections; former staffer at the Federal Election Commission for 30 years

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With billions of dollars flowing more freely than ever before into the nation's political process, has the US reached the point where money is all that matters when it comes to…

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