Public Citizen

The SAFE Banking Act Will Do What Financial Regulators Thus Far Have Not

Micah Hauptman | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Congress, Dodd-Frank, Public Citizen, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Federal Reserve, Shirley Sherrod, Banks, Financial Crisis, Big Banks, Bank Reform, SAFE Banking Act, Wall Street Reform, Bankers, Banking, Wall Street, Business News
Micah Hauptman

Preventing banks from becoming so large, complex, and interconnected that their failure would ravage the economy is the safest guarantee against a future "too big to fail"-driven financial crisis.

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CEOs Get Served by Shareholders Sick of Political Spending

Lisa Gilbert | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Corporate Reform Coalition, Shareholders, 3m, Public Citizen, Super PACs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Citizens United, Securities and Exchange Commission, Minnesota, Campaign Finance, Business News
Lisa Gilbert

Companies should get out of the political spending game and focus on doing what they were created to do: make a profit for their shareholders.

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Food Marketing to... Neonates? Bad Form, Bad Formula!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Healthy Living Health News, Food Marketing, Public Citizen, Newborns, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Breast Milk, Marketing, Neonates, Parenting, Babies, Baby Milk, Infant Formula, Global Motherhood, Baby Milk Formula, Breast Feeding, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

The best possible start in life is every baby's birthright. For the vast majority of babies, breastfeeding is an important part of that formula. The marketing of other formulas to neonates as an alternative to breast milk... most certainly is not!

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New Campaign Against Controversial Hospital Handout

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Infants, Cdc, Public Citizen, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, Hospitals, Breast Feeding, Pregnancy, Babies, Breast-Feeding, Childbirth, Parents News

Four months ago, the AP could report that "New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula." ...

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The One Gold Medal We Don't Want to Win: U.S. Leads the Way in Breeding Antibiotic-Resistant Disease

Andrew Gunther | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Norway, E. Coli, Pink Slime, Lftb, World Health Organization, Olympics, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of Concerned Scientists, Public Citizen, Fda, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Growth Promoters, Food News
Andrew Gunther

We use more antibiotics per kilogram of meat produced than any other nation in the world -- and we use 12 times as much as the country using the least, Norway.

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Goldman Backlash Good News For Volcker Rule

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Goldman Sachs, Senator Carl Levin, Video, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Public Citizen, Reuters, Resignation Letter, New York Times, Federal Financial Analytics, Volcker Rule, Paul Volcker, Muppets, Greg Smith, Business News

* Departing exec's editorial calls out treatment of clients * Reform advocates say shows need for tough Volcker rule * S...

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The Movement Against Citizens United Continues to Build

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Super Pac, Congress, Social Security, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, Washington DC, Citizens United, Occupy Movement, Barack Obama, Senate, Occupy Wall Street, Gop, Medicare, Constitution, Priorities USA Action, Republicans, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Serious grassroots work is afoot in states and municipalities across the country working to build the movement to pass an amendment striking down the Citizens United decision

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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: 'NAFTA With Asia' Is Big Money's Next Goal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Tpp, U.S. Trade Representative, Video, Lori Wallach, Auction 2012, Public Citizen, Trade, Nafta, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturing, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Trade Agreements, Job Creation, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement ...

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Consumer Advocates: BofA Poses 'Grave Threat,' Should Be Broken Up

Reuters | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Video, Public Citizen, Public Citizen Bank of America, Reuters, Consumer Advocates, Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Fail Banks, Business News, Bank of America, Federal Reserve, Big Banks, Financial Stability Oversight Council, Business News

* Public Citizen, academics say BofA poses "grave threat" * Ask regulators to proactively reform Bank of America * Petit...

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After Recent Revelations, Hospitals Must Finally Become Safety-First Environments

Pearl Korn | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Montefiore Medical Center, George Bush, New York Daily News, Tort Reform, Public Citizen, Medical Malpractice, Hospitals, Medicaid, ABC News, Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Congress, Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
Pearl Korn

For decades, and through one administration after another, the lack of safety in our healthcare system has gone un-addressed, placing us at greater and greater risk.

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How Michael Moore Can Help Bring Real Political Change to America

Pearl Korn | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Tim Johnson, Congress, Congressional Progressive Caucus, John Boehner, Michael Moore, Progressives, Founding Fathers, Citizens United, Public Financing, Blue Dog Democrats, Public Citizen, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Our nation deserves a better government, Michael Moore, and you are one of the few people with the ability to actually help make that happen.

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Can Occupy Overturn Citizens United? "Dear 99%ers..."

Mark Green | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Buckley v. Valeo, David Koch, Justice Roberts, Karl Rove, First Amendment, Public Citizen, Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street, Free Speech for People, Dylan Ratigan, Citizens United, Floyd Abrams, Corporatism, Brennan Center, Dr. Martin Luther King, Joseph Stiglitz, Sandra Day O'Connor, George Will, 99%, Common Cause, Jr., Samuel Alito, Fec, DISCLOSE Act, Antonin Scalia, Politics News
Mark Green

Nothing could enhance American democracy more than if Occupy Wall Street helped enact the 28th Constitutional Amendment to end the pretense that corporations are people who speak with money. The 99% can stop the privatization of government.

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Why Dylan Ratigan's "Get Money Out" Campaign Gets it Right

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Buckley v. Valeo, Rootstrikers, Campaign Finance Reform, Public Citizen, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Free Speech for People, Dylan Ratigan, Get Money Out, Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

To understand why Dylan Ratigan's "Get Money Out" campaign is getting it right, let's take a quick look at the history of Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance.

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Paul Blumenthal

What Obama Can Do To Fix 'National Campaign Finance Scandal'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Public Citizen, Fec, Elections 2012, Fred Wertheimer, Citizens United, Barack Obama, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Democracy 21, Common Cause, Video, League of Women Voters, Federal Election Commission, Campaign Legal Center, U.S. PIRG, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been criticized before for failing to live up to promises made in his 2008 campaign on such issues as pharmac...

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People "Are Occupying Wall Street Because Wall Street Has Occupied the Country"

Bill Moyers | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Third World America, Public Citizen, Middle Class, Occupy Wall Street, Government Corruption, #Occupywallstreet, Bill Moyers, US Politics, Zuccotti Park, Media News
Bill Moyers

2011-11-02-djjdfjkdjfmoyers.jpgOur politicians are little more than money launderers in the trafficking of power and policy -- fewer than six degrees of separation from the spirit and tactics of Tony Soprano.

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Solyndra's Screwup Can't Stop the Rooftop Revolution

Tyson Slocum | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Germany, Economics, Public Citizen, Obama Solyndra, Loan Guarantees, Tyson Slocum, Rooftop Revolution, Green Energy, Solyndra, Solar Power, Barack Obama, Clean Economy, Green News
Tyson Slocum

The Solyndra scandal highlights the flaws of the loan guarantee method of incentivizing promising technologies. It is therefore a failure of incentive design - and not of green energy.

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Occupy Wall Street: A Bottom Up Revolution in Need of Leadership to Define Its Mission

Pearl Korn | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Taxes, Russ Feingold, Fair Elections Now Act, Congress, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, Jamie Dimon, Health Insurance, Corporate Taxes, Citizens United, Democratic Party, Sotheby's, Eric Cantor, Senate, Wall Street, Middle East, American Dream, Progressives United, Occupy Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Gop, American Jobs Act, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Many of us wondered when it would happen, what it would take to ignite a national outcry against those that are destroying the American Dream for millions for their own selfish gain.

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Russ Feingold Is Emerging as a Significant Force Against Corporate Control of Our Government

Pearl Korn | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: 111th Congress, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, Evan Bayh, Anthony Weiner, Wisconsin, Fair Elections Now Act, Congress, Legislative-Transparency, Progressive Democrats of America, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Afl-Cio, Herb Kohl, Democrats, Democracy for America, Citizens United, Bold Progressives, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Amanda Terkel, Progressives United, Scott Walker, Abraham Lincoln, Credo Action, Chamber of Commerce, Constitution, Mccain-Feingold, Unions, Richard Trumka, Republicans, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Perhaps President Abraham Lincoln's famous words of hope for a "... government of the people, by the people, for the people..." will yet ring true again -- with a little help from Russ Feingold and his growing movement.

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Stand Up for Main Street!

Steve Skrovan | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Roy Zimmerman, Joan Claybrook, Robert Weissman, Andy Kindler, Public Citizen, Bill Burr, No Nukes, Hal Sparks, Citizens United, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dom Irrera, Steve Skrovan, Stand Up for Man Street, Brentwood Theater, Jim Hightower, Annie Leonard, Koch Industries, Jeff Garlin, Paula Poundstone, Ralph Nader, Entertainment News
Steve Skrovan

I think they were under the mistaken impression that I was a Hollywood player. I've never been on a board before. I have no organizational experience. And everything I know about the law, I learned from the OJ trial.

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Dan Froomkin

Democrats Increasingly Scared Of Angering Deep Pockets, Survey Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Congress, Congressional Staffers, Citizens United, Lobbying, Public Citizen, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democratic congressional staffers are increasingly wary of alienating corporate lobbyists for fear of inciting a massive advertising bli...

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Government Contracting, Democracy Is for People, Pay-to-Play, Public Citizen, Money and Politics, Executive Order, Political Transparency, Big Business, Citizens United, Obama Executive Order, Citizens United v. FEC, Disclosure, Open Government, Government Contractors, Chamber of Commerce, US Chamber of Commerce, DISCLOSE Act, Politics News
Robert Weissman

It's a good rule of thumb: If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- the trade association for large corporations -- is whipped up about something, there's p...

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Dan Froomkin

Regulatory Spree Is Actually A Slow Slog, Two Groups Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Regulations, Center for Progressive Reform, Public Citizen, Regulatory Process, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The notion that the Obama administration has gone on a wild, job-killing regulatory spree has become one of the core articles of faith f...

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Our Unsafe Healthcare System Is The Issue, Not Caps on Tort Settlements

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Conyers, Phil Gingrey, Congress, Tort Reform, Public Citizen, Medical Malpractice, Department of Labor, HR 676, Fda, ABC World News, Barack Obama, Deficit, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Health Care, Justin Bieber, Politics News
Pearl Korn

A little-noticed proposal in the President's budget managed to squeak by without a ripple in the media, or comment from savvy political pundits and progressive activists.

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A Plea to the Courts: Stop the Quiet Death of a Critical Consumer Protection

Lisa Gilbert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AT&T, Public Citizen, Supreme Court, Concepcion, Class Action Lawsuit, Scotus, Consumer Protection, Arbitration, Contract, AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, Forced Arbitration, Business News, Politics News
Lisa Gilbert

The right of consumers to band together to take action against corporate rip-offs is something that is enshrined in case law, enforced by the state co...

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Amanda Terkel

BIG MONEY, BIG MONEY: Unprecedented Outside Spending Boosted Candidates To Victory

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outside Groups, 501c4, Independent Expenditures, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance, Public Citizen, Elections 2010, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's election will be remembered not only for the historic losses by the Democratic Party in the House, but also the unprecedented ...

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