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Lobbyists Feel The Recession: Lobbying In Marked Decline

washingtonpost.com | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: K Street Lobbyists, Congress, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Washington, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, Patton Boggs, Registered Lobbyists, K Street, Transparency, Business News

Overall spending on lobbying has leveled off for the first time in a decade, according to disclosure data filed with Congress. Lobbying revenue for ma...

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FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lobbyists, Roy Blunt, Ohio, State Secrets, Sibel Edmonds, Dan Burton, Fbi, Valerie Plame, Blackmail, Tom Lantos, Bribery, Armenian Genocide, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Whistleblowers, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Marc Grossman, Stephen Solarz, Jean Schmidt, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Brad Friedman

The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.

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A Crowd's Take on the Health Care Industry's Revolving Door

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Congress, Lobbying, House of Representatives, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Revolving Door, Max Baucus, Health Care, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News
Adam Clark Estes

Earlier this summer, The Washington Post published an eye-catching analysis of the revolving door between Congress and the health industry. The newspaper estimated that at least 350 former staffers and members of Congress are now lobbying their former Capitol Hill colleagues on legislation to change the health care system.

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Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?

Larry Flynt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Campaign Finance Reform, Wall Street, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Larry Flynt Bailout, Larry Flynt, Campaign Finance, Economy, Business News
Larry Flynt

You hear it more and more, sometimes in code, sometimes spelled out. We have reached the tipping point. The enemy has been identified. It's not left versus right in America. It's democracy versus greed.

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The Daily Pulse: Deep Six the Gang of Six

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, Public Option, Lobbyists, Washington Monthly, Filibuster, Gang of Six, Salon, Mohter Jones, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Healthcare, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.

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LobbyBlog

Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: K Street, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Campaign Finance, Transparency, Business News

Click here for the latest from the new and improved LobbyBlog! September 4, 2009 AUTO DEALERS SPENT $776,000 ON LOBBYING IN SECOND QUARTER Auto dea...

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Progressives Should Vote No on Obama's Health Care Proposal

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Caucus, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Corporations, Lobbyists, Progressives, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The Obama White House is doing untold damage to its credibility here by scheming against the centerpiece of healthcare reform -- the public option. This is the very heart of reform.

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AARP Seeks More Neutral Image After Shedding Thousands Of Members

USA Today | Mimi Hall | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Death Panels, Lobbyists, Michael Steele, Barry Rand, Aarp, Jennie Chin Hansen, Medicare, Alliance-for-Retired-Americans, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Lab...

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Syngenta, Maker Of Weed-Killer Atrazine, Wants Lobbying Documents Excluded From Class-Action Lawsuit

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Lobbyists, Lobbying, Atrazine, Politics, Weed-Killer, Syngenta, Chemical Company, Illinois. Class-Action Lawsuit, Business, Drinking Water, Herbicide, Green News

Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...

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Remembering a Fighter for Freedom

Michelle Pilecki | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obituary, Aclu, Lobbyists, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Bipartisanship, Frankel, Legislation, Politics News
Michelle Pilecki

Larry Frankel spent his professional life as a legislative lobbyist for the ACLU. That means that Larry worked behind the scenes with both "left" and "right" legislators to protect the civil rights.

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Who Would Be Against American Manufacturing?

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Foreign Agents, Tires, Lobbyists, Unions, Business News
Dave Johnson

We are used to this kind of bad, antisocial, economically destructive behavior from self-interested American companies, organizations and people. And for some reason we seem to tolerate it.

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Fixed?

Wendy Block | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, LA Times, Fair Elections Now Act, Senate, Congress, Public Option, California Clean Money Campaign, Big Money, Big Oil, Lobbyists, Progressives, Npr, Special Interests, Health Reform, Lobbying, Politics News
Wendy Block

Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Milk. All special interest patrons of America's Big Money bordello. What are good progressives to do? Either we get lobotomies or we fix the way the country finances politics.

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It's The Health Insurance Lobby, Stupid!

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, Health Insurance Lobby, Lobbyists, US Senate, Dr. Sarah Lovinger, Sarah Lovinger, Living News
Sarah Lovinger

Our country will have a health insurance bill this year. Despite the angry town halls and the 'death panels', President Obama and the Democratic congress have enough momentum to pass a bill providing health care coverage for all or most Americans. But they need to pass the right bill.

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America's Existing Health Care System Is Fit For Animals

New York Times | Nicholas Kristof | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Nicholas Kristof, Health Care, Lobbyists, Politics News

As a nation, we're at a turning point. Universal health coverage has been proposed for nearly a century in the United States. It was in an early draft...

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Why Barack Can't Do What Lyndon Would Have: An Essay on Living in the Past

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Pierre Du Pont, Henry Ford, Lobbyists, Roger Mud, Health Care Reform, Lew Wasserman, Medicare, Lyndon Johnson, Dan Rather, Robert Ball, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Bob Kerr, Barack Obama, John Stennis, David Rockefeller, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

There's been a major power shift in the United States over the past forty years. Power has devolved from the Russells, Kerrs and Johnsons to the lobbyists.

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Dear GOP: Watch Your AstroTurf, We're On to You

Kase Wickman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Protests, Gop, Climate Change, Gop Protests, Lobbyists, Republicans, Astroturfing, Climate Change Protests, Republicans Health Care, Gop Health Care, Obama Grassroots, Gop Climate Change, Big Oil, Town Hall Meetings, New England, Sons of Liberty, Politics News
Kase Wickman

Dissent is essential to democracy, and freedom of speech and the right to assemble are vital and not reserved for one party or the other. The problem is this Republicans: you're doing it wrong.

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The Brutal Battle to Kill King Coal

John DeCock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Fraud, Senate, Clean Coal, Water, Lobbyists, Environment, Green, Paul Newman, Hitchcock, Coal, Green News
John DeCock

A prolonged, determined effort is going to be necessary to end the life of King Coal.

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Dose of Truth: Five Facts About Health Care Reform

Sally Kohn | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Teabaggers, Public Option, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Congress, Obama, Facts, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Sally Kohn

My favorite outrageous lie about health care reform is the "gay conspiracy", whereby reform will not only put our elderly out to float on icebergs, but adorn those icebergs with men in leather chaps and feather boas.

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Obama Talks Mozart on Maddow

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Universal Health, Msnbc, Maddow, Obama, Rachel Maddow, Lobbyists, Mozart, Rachel, Comedy News
Maggie Van Ostrand

In a debate with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, President Obama said, "If only we had had the Public Option in our health overhaul, Wolfgang Mozart would be alive today."

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The Gorilla Dust of Health Care

Michael Winship | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Betsy Mccaughey, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, David Frum, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Bruce Bartlett, Town Hall Meetings, Sarah Palin, Health Care, Politics News
Michael Winship

What's interesting about the health care hullabaloo is that there appears to be an emerging backlash from some of the more reasoned thinkers of the conservative movement.

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The Fix

Wendy Block | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fair Elections Now Act, Money in Politics, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Arianna Huffington, California Clean Money Campaign, Arizona, Bill Moyers, Eyes and Ears, Politics News
Wendy Block

Who isn't tempted by the siren song of big donors? Their cash paves the way for electoral triumph and its accompanying power and success.

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Big Pharma has Lured Dems Into a Faustian Bargain

Merrill Goozner | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Obama Healthcare, Obama PhRMA, Lobbyists, PhRMA Lobby, Democrats, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Phrma, Health, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Merrill Goozner

Reformers were naïve if they thought the world had changed simply because there were new tenants in the majority offices on the Hill or in the White House.

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Lobbyist-Run Group Provides Birther With Talking Points For Town Hall

Think Progress | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Jack Abramoff, Obama Birth Certificate, Tom Delay, Town Hall, Birth Certificate, Lobbyists, Tom Perriello, Americans for Prosperity, Glenn Beck, Townhall, Politics News

Last night, ThinkProgress attended Rep. Tom Perriello's (D-VA) town hall in Ruckersville, Virginia. Inside, many people were holding signs provided by...

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Is Health Care Reform About to Go the Way of No Child Left Behind?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Preventative Healthcare, Health Care Lobbyists, Public Option, Prevention, Phrma, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Obama Drug Lobbyists, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Wellness, Obama PhRMA, PhRMA Lobby, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

The White House may be willing to cave on drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly.

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Health Insurance, Electronic Medical Records, Sweden, Jack Abramoff, Cigna, President Obama, OpenSecrets.Org, Catastrophic Health Insurance, Canada, The Health-Care Industry, Aig, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, Pharmaceutical Industry, Aetna, Federal Deficit, Occam's Razor, Lobbyists, United Health Group, The National Debt, Cyberounds.com, Peter Orszag, Single Payer, Cookbook Medicine, Single Payer Health Care, Japan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, France, Chrysler, Dow Jones, Great Britain, Wellpoint, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Cuba, Holland, Scandanavia, Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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