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American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

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Every day, Big Banks, Big Polluters, and Big Tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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Dozens of Commonsense Safeguards Vulnerable to GOP Rollback

Crypto Promoter Paul Atkins Named to Chair SEC
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Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021
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Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives.

Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely.

For decades, we have fought for progressive alternatives that benefit people and the planet. Learn more about our work.

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The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record
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Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Congressional Insider Trading

Passing the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act was one of the few good acts of the 112th Congress. The legislation applies the law against insider trading to Congress itself and mandates an online disclosure system so that compliance could be monitored. Just one year later, Congress slashed critical provisions, leaving enforcement of the law seriously in question.

Make no mistake: The STOCK Act is still in effect and congressional insider trading still is banned. But it has become extraordinarily difficult to ensure compliance with the law.

One way to put teeth back into the law is to mandate disclosure of the lobbyists and Wall Street operatives who roam the halls of Congress for stock trading information. In the wake of Congress’ repeal of the disclosure enforcement mechanism of the STOCK Act, it is more important than ever to open the books on the political intelligence industry.

More Resources on Congressional Insider Trading

Open the Books on Insider Trading and the “Political Intelligence Industry”, April 3, 2019
Collins-Price Ethics Investigation Member Petition and Cover Letter, February 20, 2018
The Impact of the STOCK Act on Stock Trading Activity by U.S. Senators, 2009 – 2015, June 22, 2017
Public Citizen to FEC: Close Loophole to Curb Foreign Campaign Spending, September 14, 2016
Statement: Insider Traders in Congress May Soon Be Revealed by the Bipartisan ‘Political Intelligence Transparency Act,’ September 14, 2014
Op-Ed in Roll Call by Public Citizen’s Craig Holman: Congressional Insider Trading Revisited (But Don’t Tell Anyone), May 9, 2013
Statement: Senate Bill to Ban Congressional Insider Trading Is Useful, But Timid, March 22, 2012
Letter: OMB Agency Information Collection Activities, Nov. 6, 2012
Senate Acts on Useful but Timid Bill to Ban Congressional Insider Trading, March 25, 2012
Letter to Sen. Harry Reid: Restore Critical Anti-Corruption Provisions to STOCK Act, March 6, 2012
Letter: Enact the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act”, February 6, 2012
Letter: Pass the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act”, January 31, 2012
Letter: Legislation Banning Congressional Insider Trading Must Neither Be Weakened Nor Delayed any Further, December 21, 2011
Letter: Move the STOCK Act Forward, December 9, 2011
House Statement on the STOCK Act, December 5, 2011
Senate Statement on the STOCK Act, December 1, 2011
Coalition Letter: Support the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act”, December 1, 2011
Letter to Senate: Support the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act”, November 18, 2011
Letter to House: Support the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act”, November 18, 2011
Action: Tell Congress to End Insider Trading in Washington
Blog Post: “Insider Trading: How Congress Can Make Big Bucks at Our Expense”, March 23, 2009
Coalition letter on the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, March 4, 2009

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Dozens of Commonsense Safeguards Vulnerable to GOP Rollback

Crypto Promoter Paul Atkins Named to Chair SEC

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021

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