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$2.6 billion
Amount corporations now spend per year on reported lobbying expenditures – “more than the $2 billion we spend to fund the House ($1.16 billion) and Senate ($820 million),” The Weekly Wonk reports.
My family is a consideration. Number two, the most important thing is, what does the Lord want me to do with my life?
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), continuing to “signal his increasing interest in running for president Sunday, saying he’s waiting for a signal from God before making the call,” Politico reports.
If Jeb Bush loses New Hampshire, they’ll get Mitt Romney back in the race.
— James Carville, quoted by the Washington Post.
If the national presidency were to pass back and forth between two or three families in any Latin American nation we would call it an oligarchy.
— Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, writing in Time.
I’ll bet $5.38 that if Clinton eventually loses, the first scene from Game Change III is set in a Chipotle.
— Nate Silver, when asked about the impact of candidates’ food choices in a Q&A on Facebook.
I have to prove that I’m not running for president — if I go beyond the consideration of this to being an active candidate — to try to break the tie between the Adams family and the Bush family. That really isn’t my motivation — but I have to prove that.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by CNN.
45%
Gov. Mike Pence’s approval rating, according to a new Howey Politics Indiana poll — down from 62% in February. The survey was less than a month “after Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law hailed as a reaffirmation of the First Amendment by supporters but derided as bigoted against gays and lesbians by critics.”
