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Advocacy Groups May Reshape Message During Holidays
(Blog Post) The Senate debate on health care, set to begin the week after Thanksgiving, is now on course to collide with the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Obama Aims to Allay Auto Lobby Concern on Korea Trade
President Barack Obama said he is committed to pushing through a free trade agreement with South Korea that has ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Colo. to review taxpayer-paid lobbyists practice
At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside ...via Google News
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Road to Copenhagen Part: US Climate Legislation & Lobbyists
(Blog Post) Called the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill was fought hard by the energy ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Energy Lobbyists Seek Support From Veterans
(Blog Post) Environmentalists on both sides of the fight for climate change legislation are hoping to enlist veterans groups as ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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The real reason Obama is not making much progress
So far, Obama has tried to co-opt the corporations into his agenda by ensuring they will profit from any changes, ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
High noon in Washington, D.C.
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Citizens left out in cold
State Rep. David Wolkins isn't shy about what he likes: golf, basketball and football. As ranking Republican ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
(Video) President Obama’s nominee for the Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the office of the US Trade Representative, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Newsweek And Oil Lobby Team Up To Host Climate Change Event With Lawmakers
Newsweek magazine is teaming up with an oil-industry lobbying group to host an event on climate-change and energy ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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Lobbyists Fight Efforts to Save on Health Care
Most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s vow to curb health care costs have fallen victim to ...via Jonathan Cohn -
Chamber’s Donohue Keeps Cash Coming After PG&E, Apple Defect
Apple Inc. and three other members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quit over its opposition to climate-change ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Got Their Way on Health Care
It's understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, ...via Ellen Miller
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Lobbying From The Great Beyond
With a little planning, you can lobby Congress from beyond the grave. Every year, hundreds of Americans continue ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Anatomy of an Ethics Leak
(Blog Post) The news that “dozens” of House lawmakers are under scrutiny by ethics investigators — reported last night by ...
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The real reason Obama is not making much progress
So far, Obama has tried to co-opt the corporations into his agenda by ensuring they will profit from any changes, ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Climate Rage
With Copenhagen now likely to begin before Congress has passed even a weak-ass climate bill co-authored by the coal ...via Google News -
Health Care and the 'Predator State'
In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The ...Posted by Kristin Gorski
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Newsweek And Oil Lobby Team Up To Host Climate Change Event With Lawmakers
Newsweek magazine is teaming up with an oil-industry lobbying group to host an event on climate-change and energy ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
