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- Ballotpedia: REINS Act History
Document
Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia: the REINS Act has passed the House six times since 2011, most recently in April 2025, and has never passed the Senate. The Senate version,…
- Barack Obama post on Higher Ground films including Leave the World Behind (2023)
Document · 2023
Barack Obama
Barack Obama's December 2023 post saying he was proud to release Leave the World Behind through Higher Ground.
- Barack Obama Sent Script Notes to Sam Esmail for Leave the World Behind
News Report · 2023
Variety; Sam Esmail quoted by Matt Donnelly
Variety, September 2023: director Sam Esmail says Obama gave him notes on the script based on his experience of how a real crisis would unfold.
- Bari Weiss: Twitter Files on Visibility Filtering (2022)
News Report · 2022
Bari Weiss
Journalist Bari Weiss, December 2022: a Twitter Files thread saying Twitter teams secretly built blacklists, kept disfavored tweets from trending, and limited visibility of whole accounts.…
- Basin Man Sentenced to 18 Months for Clean Water Act Violations and Destruction of U.S. Property
Government Record · 2016
U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Montana
DOJ reports Robertson was 77 at sentencing and received 18 months’ imprisonment plus restitution. It describes nine ponds on National Forest land and adjacent private property…
- BEA: GDP by Industry, Historical Value Added (spreadsheet)
Government Record · 2004
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Economic Analysis spreadsheet: manufacturing was 20.8 percent of the economy in 1980, and near 29 percent in some early-1950s years.
- BEA: Historical GDP by Industry, 1947 to 1996
Government Record · 2016
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Economic Analysis historical data: manufacturing was about 25 to 27 percent of the U.S. economy in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Bechtel Choreographs Overnight Move to New Denver International Airport
News Report · 1995
Journal of Commerce
A 1995 Journal of Commerce report that Bechtel managed the overnight move into the new Denver airport. Only the headline was accessible.
- Bermuda Principles (1996)
Government Record · 1996
U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Project archives
The 1996 Bermuda Principles required that human genome sequence produced by large publicly funded centers be released quickly and freely into the public domain.
- Bernstein: The CIA and the Media, Rolling Stone (1977)
News Report · 1977
Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone, October 1977: reports that CIA ties to the press were closest with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc., according…
- Beyoncé Appears at Kamala Harris Campaign Rally in Houston
News Report · 2024
Associated Press
AP, October 2024: Beyoncé spoke at Kamala Harris's Houston rally, saying "I'm here as a mother." She did not perform.
- Beyoncé Expresses Support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Election Eve
News Report · 2020
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone, November 2020: Beyoncé endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on election eve.
- Beyond the Blast Doors: 50 Years Later, Cheyenne Mountain Remains the Dragon That Never Sleeps
Government Record · 2016
Randy Roughton, Airman Magazine (U.S. Air Force)
Airman Magazine's official history of Cheyenne Mountain: 25-ton steel blast doors that seal in 40 seconds, and an underground city under about 2,000 feet of granite.
- Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Public Law 115-123, Title VII (Family First Prevention Services Act)
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Congress
The Family First Prevention Services Act, which for the first time let states use Title IV-E money for mental health, substance abuse and parenting services meant…
- BIS: Central Bank Digital Currencies, Foundational Principles (2020)
Document · 2020
Bank for International Settlements and participating central banks
Bank for International Settlements and central banks, 2020: says each country decides whether and how to issue a central bank digital currency, that it should coexist…
- BlackRock and Housing: Setting the Record Straight
Corporate Filing · 2025
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock's statement that it is not buying individual single-family homes, while acknowledging it invests in mortgage securities, apartment complexes and other residential real estate, and builds…
- BlackRock Enlists Stanley Fischer for Investment Analysis Role
News Report · 2019
Annie Massa, Bloomberg
Bloomberg's report that former Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer joined the BlackRock Investment Institute as a senior adviser, based on a BlackRock memo.
- BlackRock Funds Services Group LLC Political Action Committee, 2022 Cycle
Government Record · 2022
Federal Election Commission
Identifies BlackRock’s registered PAC, C00479246, and reports 2021-2022 total receipts of $292,290.98 and contributions to other committees of $638,000.
- BlackRock Investment Stewardship 2020 Annual Report
Document · 2020
BlackRock Investment Stewardship
For July 2019-June 2020, BlackRock reports 16.1% of compensation proposals voted against management globally, not 9% of S&P 500 CEO packages. It reports 2,800 companies with…
- BlackRock Reports First Quarter 2020 Results, Exhibit 99.1
Corporate Filing · 2020
BlackRock, Inc.
Shows sequential fee revenue falling as market declines reduced average AUM. Securities-lending revenue was $158 million, down from $169 million in Q4 2019 but above $148…
- BlackRock response letter to state and local financial officers
Document · 2025
BlackRock, Inc.
Eligible clients may use their own policy or choose among third-party policies. Pass-through choice now exists, but enrolled assets are much smaller than eligible assets and…
- BlackRock response to attorneys general
Document · 2022
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock’s response to the 2022 letter disputes the state officials’ characterization and reiterates client and fiduciary objectives.
- BlackRock Takes Sustainable Investing Mainstream with Range of Low-Cost Sustainable Core ETFs
Document · 2018
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock’s own release verifies Deese’s company title in October 2018. It does not supply his later NEC appointment or OGE Form 278.
- BlackRock withdraws from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative
Document · 2025
BlackRock, Inc.
BlackRock formally withdrew from NZAM following a routine review. The announcement is direct evidence of retreat from this initiative, not proof that all climate or ESG…