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Lobbyists Ready For A Comeback Under Romney

www.politico.com | Posted 12.15.2012 | Politics
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President Barack Obama's gone further than any president to keep lobbyists out of the White House -- even signing executive orders to do it. ...

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Judge Gives Obama Victory Over Lobbyists

Reuters | Posted 11.26.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday upheld an attempt by President Barack Obama to cut down the influence of lobbyists, rul...

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AIPAC's Misguided Advocacy

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 10.22.2011 | World
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Alon Ben-Meir

As Israel's democracy and the prospect for peace unravel, so too will the U.S.-Israel relationship. If AIPAC truly cares about the State of Israel, and the U.S.-Israel relationship, it should be spending every waking hour making sure this does not happen.

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Debt Talks: As Positions Change By The Moment, Even Lobbyists Struggle To Keep Up

The Washington Post | Hide This | Posted 09.25.2011 | Politics
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In one television commercial that began airing last week, a woman talks up the benefits of “Spenditol,” Washington’s miracle drug to fix all pro...

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Was Publius Wrong? Money and Representative Government

Terry Newell | Posted 08.23.2011 | Politics
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Terry Newell

Madison did not believe in a world where a minority could tyrannize the majority through controlling the votes of representatives.

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Is Main Street Ready for the Second Wave of the Recession?

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Don McNay

The phrase "double-dip recession" means little to most of us. To people on Main Street, it hasn't been been a "dip". We took a drop to the bottom two years ago and stayed there.

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Is Being Anti-Goldman Sachs Being Anti-American?

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Don McNay

The real scandal of the entire bailout mess was how money was funneled through AIG to pay "counterparties" like Goldman Sachs 100 cents on the dollar.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Fight For The CFPA Is 'A Dispute Between Families And Banks,' Says Elizabeth Warren

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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While members of the Senate Banking Committee debate proposals to fix the nation's broken financial system and ineffective approach to protecting cons...

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Campaign Finance Outrage: Democracy for the Highest Bidder

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Jim Wallis

Corporations can now directly intervene in campaigns with candidate-specific ads. The only requirement remaining is that they not be coordinated with a campaign. But that's a requirement more of form than substance.

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