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Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy debates.

A PI analysis of lobbying disclosures from last quarter reveals several different camps of interest on the extending the nation’s borrowing limit — from groups merely monitoring the matter, to advocating explicitly for a no-strings-attached debt ceiling hike to avert a likely economic catastrophe.

Elizabeth Warren grilled Pentagon lawyers over hundreds of former defense and congressional officials who had gone on to lobby for defense contractors.

The torch now passes to other actors who hold the power to achieve accountability for the attack on the Capitol.

Part of the resistance or part of the problem? It doesn’t matter: These lawyers are part of the gang.

The Pentagons "senior mentor" program, left for dead more than a decade ago, is once again flourishing. Critics blast it as an ol boys network.

Open The Government, a coalition that works to create a more open and accountable government, will become part of POGO in August.

"The Lee-Pocan bill disproves the claim that theres not money to feed the hungry, care for the sick, cut child poverty, or protect the planet," said one proponent.

This week in The Bunker: Military-industrial coziness is never a good thing; the F-35 has opted to keep its own lousy nervous system instead of getting a transplant; tracking the U.S. bucks bound for Ukrainian; and more.

The publication of a Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade has set off sleuthing from every corner of the capital.