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• Catholic Church Aggressively Influencing Health Care Reform Legislation

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 580
  The Roman Catholic Church worked aggressively to get a last-minute amendment added to the newly-passed House health care reform bill that specifically prohibits abortion coverage in insurance plans that receive funding from the federal government. The "Stupak-Pitts Amendment," named after Bart Stupak , (D-MI) ...
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• Government Will Release Some Telco Wiretap Lobbying Documents – Though they’ll protect AT&T and Verizon company identities

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 135
  A Federal Judge has demanded, three times now, that the Obama Administration hand over documents that highlight how major phone companies AT&T and Verizon lobbied for legal immunity for their involvement in the government’s warrantless wiretap program. The government, with no real legal footing to stand on, has ...
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• ACO Not In the Family....but Working For It

  
  Albany Citizen One — Authority: 135
  Here I sit, deep in the green cushions of the Senate lobby couches. This is one of my favorite places in the world as long as I have my computer and air card with me. While most people hang out with their friends at the bar or church or, you know, someplace more traditional, I hang with my friends at the capital. Its ...
  12 hours ago

• ALA Washington Office Webinar: Get Legislators in Your Library!

  
  District Dispatch — Authority: 523
  One of the best ways to get legislators to listen (and, more important, support you) is to show them what your library does to benefit the community. Believe it or not, members of Congress still think of libraries as “those places with all the books.” The good news is that your opportunities to make a real ...
  13 hours ago

• URGENT! GRASSROOTS ACTION ALERT! PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TODAY!

  
  Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That! — Authority: 429
  Dear Insurance Company:I just received an “urgent” email from you, with a desperate plea to call my Congressman and oppose health care reform.I’ve sent you $5,000 a month for 10 years. And you never so much as said hello.Now you and your incompetent grass-roots team expect us to step up and help you?This is not ...
  16 hours ago

• White House, Lobbyists Still at Odds

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 781
  After a delegation of lobbyists met with administration officials, the White House used its Web site to highlight its restrictions on lobbyists.
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• Former Baucus Staffers Lobby on Climate Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Over a complete Republican boycott, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed its climate bill last week by a vote of 11-1. The lone dissenter was Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — a name you’ll be hearing a lot more if you’re keeping tabs on the climate debate. Baucus chairs the powerful Finance ...
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• Anti-reform doctors seeking to rescind AMA endorsement are led by front group with insurer, GOP ties.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 843
  The House passed historic comprehensive health insurance reform on Saturday with the help of endorsements from hundreds of community organizations, including the American Medical Association. However, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that former AMA president Donald Palmisano is leading an effort to force the AMA ...
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• TechAmerica Hires New State Lobbyist

  
  Tech Daily Dose — Authority: 605
  Advertisement TechAmerica announced Monday that it has hired Kim Allman to head its state lobbying operations. Allman has many years of lobbying experience on state issues. She spent eight years at the Recording Industry Association of America where she launched and managed the groups state government ...
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• The Second Cup: Do You Flip?

  
  TechRepublican.com - — Authority: 529
  WOW: Facebook Adding Half a Million New Users Ever Day It’s no secret that Facebook is humongous: 300 million users humongous. Yet it still shocks us that it keeps on finding new users to fuel its ascent into the social media stratosphere. A little over a year ago (August 2008), Facebook (Facebook) reached ...
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  Digital Destiny — Authority: 117
  
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• Saving the Galaxy: The C-5 AMP/RERP Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 566
  C-5 Galaxy (click to view full) DID’s FOCUS articles offer in-depth, updated looks at significant military programs of record. This FOCUS Article explains what the C-5 AMP/RERP program involves, why it’s so critical to the future of American airpower, and why it’s such a challenging project. It also covers ...
  2 days ago

• Taking Attendance, Somos Edition

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 730
  As is generally the case with political events, the list of people who arent in Puerto Rico for Somos el Futuro is just as significant - if not more so - as the list of people who are. The most glaring absence is that of Gov. David Paterson, who not only isnt here himself, but also declined to even send a ...
  3 days ago

• Pelosi Faces Competing Pressures on Health Care

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi fund-raises most weekends, as at this Miami event last month for Democratic candidates for the House and the Senate.
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• I was hired to stand in the way of health care reform: Insurance lobbyist or Joe Lieberman?

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 511
  Meet Andy Cobb, a former professional deceiver for Blue Cross Blue Shield. He’s done all the damage he could being a pretty face for Blue Cross Blue Shield’s health insurance, so now he’s branching out toward his next big whitewashing opportunity. read more
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• Boeings KC-X bid wont go hiking on Appalachian Trail

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 581
  Boeing decided last week to move the second 787 production line to Charleston, South Carolina. As a primarily military aviation journalist, I, of course, immediately wondered what this means for Boeings KC-X tanker bid. (I apparently wasnt the only one .) The 787 move to Charleston potentially shifts South ...
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• WIRE WATCH: Obama Huddles With House Dems, MoveOn Targets Toyota, T-Paw in Iowa, Barbour vs. Rendell

  
  WSJ.com: Washington Wire — Authority: 780
  A roundup of notable events today and over the weekend.
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• No Climate Deal for Over a Year

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 124
  Well you didn’t really believe that a global climate deal was on the cards at Copenhagen did you? Despite all the warnings that such is the urgency of the problem that a deal had to be made in Copenhagen, there will be no deal. Not for a year anyway. And maybe never. The latest news coming from the last meetings ...
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• Why a Politician’s Dollar Is Worth More than a Dollar

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 584
  How can $1 be worth more than $1? Let a lobbyist teach you.
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• Stimulus Lobbying Pays Off for Major Contractors

  
  Dirt Diggers Digest — Authority: 106
  Last spring, when the ink was barely dry on the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), there was already concern about an emerging frenzy of lobbying on behalf of corporations seeking a slice of the stimulus pie. The Obama Administration enacted rules designed to make ARRA lobbying more ...
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