{"id":913091,"date":"2022-12-07T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1fd1dddd15cc9e2a98df617adc4a6df4"},"modified":"2022-12-07T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:04:31","slug":"democrats-urge-biden-to-make-federal-contractors-disclose-dark-money-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/07\/democrats-urge-biden-to-make-federal-contractors-disclose-dark-money-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Urge Biden to Make Federal Contractors Disclose Dark Money Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 20 Democrats and progressives in the Senate are urging President Joe Biden to crack down on federal contractors&rsquo; political donations to help reduce &ldquo;quid pro quo corruption&rdquo; among federal lawmakers and lobbyists and shine a much-needed light on dark money spending. In a letter spearheaded by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and signed by 20 senators...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/democrats-urge-biden-to-make-federal-contractors-disclose-dark-money-spending\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/democrats-urge-biden-to-make-federal-contractors-disclose-dark-money-spending\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmakers say that lax election finance laws have paved the way for \u201cquid pro quo corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37957,3387,7546,10342,50,8093,51,4,33635],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913092,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913091\/revisions\/913092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}