Lobbyists
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Obama Limits LobbyistsBarack Obama President Has Indeed Limited The Power of Lobbyists. The power of lobbyists is obviously less now \than when President Obama announced his stringent rule. Reality trumps literalism. See how. -
Some Obama Backers Become LobbyistsBarack Obama, champion of ethics reform, has taking strict steps to prevent lobbyists from infiltrating his administration. However, a lobbyist flow has started in the other direction.
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Lobbyists Not the Problem in and of ThemselvesWe always hear about lobbyists being bad and how people don't like them. Never is the root cause discussed.
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Obama Zaps LobbyistsBarack Obama President: Strengthened Restrictions on Lobbyists - Free Verse by Stephen C. Rose -
Politicians and Lobbyists Are Destroying Our Country with Their Use of EarmarksEarmarks are being used by lobbyists and politicians to destroy our country. They are using these earmarks for political votes and reelection contributions.
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Why We Need More LobbyistsIt’s fashionable to gripe about lobbying as somehow evil, corrupt, and “un-American”. Actually, there is nothing more American than a good, old-fashioned lobbyist. Sure, some of them are swine. But we do not need fewer lobbyists. We need more of them.
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Martha Coakley Attends Fund Raiser with Insurance and Drug Company LobbyistsMartha Coakley, who is running for the US Senate in a special election in Massachusetts, left the campaign trail to attend a fund raiser attended by lobbyists for many of the biggest drug and insurance companies in America.
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Legal Animal Cruelty: Puppy Mill Lobbyists and Animal Rights GroupsIt's hard to imagine how puppy mill lobbyists can advocate for mill owners who won't provide the basic necessities of life for their dogs. Animal rights groups and lobbyists are locked in a fight to discredit each other as puppy mill pets continue to die. -
Pledge to America Crafted by LobbyistsThe GOP favor the big business agenda is exactly what got America into the mess it is in now and selling the Pledge to America as anything but a lobbyists dream is nothing but pure rhetoric.
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Health Care Insurance Companies Spend Millions on LobbyistsHealth care insurance companies spent an estimated $261 million dollars on lobbyists to try to influence the health care reform process underway in Congress.
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The Problem of LobbyistsThe problem of lobbyists
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Lobbyists, Government and YouLobbyists are a cancer of Democracy
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Edwards, Obama Attack Clinton on LobbyistsAmong all the candidates, Hillary Clinton bragged about how she will continue to garner massive contributions from the corporate lobbyists who are responsible for the ethos that created hopelessness among voters across the country. -
Lobbyists and Their Role in Government PoliticsA brief summarized look at what lobbyists do and the regulations that oversee and guide lobbyists on what they can and cannot do to influence politcs. -
Obama, Lobbyists, and Freedom of SpeechA directive from President Barack Obama barring officials charged with doling out stimulus money from talking with lobbyists has free speech advocates worried, The directive is very likely in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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Are Politicians and Lobbyists Destroying the Public Education System?Discussion of how politics influences education decisions today and what we, as voters, need to do to protect public education and provide improvements to the system.
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Campaign Issues: Lobbyists, Special Interests, Contributions and Government FinanceThis article contains helpful resources for the US voter.
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Miami Dade Spends $2.88 Million on Washington LobbyistsCounty commissioners may have a hard time explaining why they are spending an absurd amount of money on Washington lobbying.
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The Law and LobbyistsRecent news in lobbying, including some calls for reform
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How Lobbyists Are Controlling CongressThe heist I refer to is what Americans have come to know legally as "lobbying" and it is a 3.3 billion dollar heist limiting, controlling, and undermining the American legislative process.
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Ya Gotta Love Those Chemical LobbyistsAnnals of Cancer Prevention
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Tea Party, Coffee Party and Now Orange Juice Party - Several Grass Roots Lobbyists Making NoiseIntroductions to the Tea-party, Coffee Party and now the Orange Juice Party - isn't democrat, republican and independent enough? -
Lobbyists: Honorable Persuader or Political CorrupterLobbying is a long and debatable tradition in American politics and is considered often as "dirty" politics. -
Romney Spat Highlights Influence of LobbyistsPresidential candidate Mitt Romney's confrontation over lobbyist influence has highlighted the role of these players in presidential politics.
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President Obama Tells Lobbyists "Bring it On!"Obama mimics Bush, plays "Cowboy."
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Should Lobbyists Be Allowed to Make Campaign Contributions to Politicians?This article addresses some concerns associated with the influence of special interest groups on political campaign activity.
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Healthcare Reform: Lobbyists Set to Spend Record Amounts for InfluenceThe drug and insurance industries are spending tens of millions of dollars to influence the healthcare reform debate.
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Should Lobbyists Be Allowed to Give Campaign Contributions?What if you were a lobbyist? What would your stand be? And if you were a politician? Or maybe if you are just the citizen watching it all go by? Where would you stand on this issue? List your opinions and thoughts here.
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Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups in Congressthe various interest groups in Congress and how they persuade Congressmen to get legislation passed for them
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Michael "Mike" Duvall Video: Assemblyman Sex Scandal in Orange CountyOrange County Assemblyman Michael Duvall may have found himself involved in the "perfect storm" of political sex scandals. Not only Michael "Mike" Duvall married and allegedly cheating on his wife, but with two political lobbyists, and one...
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The Most Troubling Issues to Be Addressed when Considering Death and DyingRecently, advocates and lobbyists have changed their argument for legalizing euthanasia from suicide as a relief from pain, to suicide as an issue of personal choice.
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The Financial Reform Law - What Does it Mean for You?The new Financial Law is better than nothing, but not much better.
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Government for the PeopleOur government is supposed to be based on the premise of a government by the people, for the people. Over the years, our representatives have failed to fulfill campaign promises to constituents in favor of placating lobbyists who financed their campaigns.
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Lobbyist and Special Interest Spending and Influence Worse Now Than at Any Time Before ObamaBarack Obama is beholden to and owned by lobbyists and special interests as spending by special interests is at a record $3.47 billion for 2009, his first year in office. -
Scatterbrained Senators Sabotage Health Care ReformSenators take an oath to represent their constituents, but instead focus on personal rewards from wealthy lobbyists. As a result, the USA goes down the tubes!
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Robber Barons of Congress: Whores to the LobbyistsRepublicans and an Independent continually work and conspire to rob the people of a standard of education and health care in favor of corporate profit.
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White Actor Plays 'Black' Alexander Dumas. And so What?'Racism, racism' the lobbyists cry. Gerard Depardieu performs as French writer Alexander Dumas in his new film. Dumas was a quarter black. Depardieu isn't. Well so what? -
Buddy Roemer's $100 Bid for the White HouseThe former Louisiana governor wants to make it to the White House on the strength of small contributions from average people — not bundles of cash from shadowy lobbyists.
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The Monumental Global Economic Fraud Called Government Budget Deficit and National Debt (Part II)Sovereign Power belongs to "We the People" and not to the White House, Congress, Judiciary, Lobbyists or even Corporations. It is time We the People take back our lives, economy and country from the Budget Deficit Hawks.
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Are Republicans Putting Party Before Country?The "party of - no" has been accused by some, of putting loyalty to insurance industry lobbyists ahead of the good of the country.
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