Lobbying

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• Plateau éco – France Inter

  
  System Information ON Five Tools — Authority: 139
  Nicolas Demorand reçoit dans le 7/10 de France Inter, Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, président du Cercle des économistes, professeur à l’université Paris-Dauphine et par téléphone, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, président de l’OFCE, professeur à ……Detail ProductaPlateau éco – France Inter a Plateau éco – France ...
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• Environmental Defense Fund 2009 Video Report

  
  Melodies In Marketing — Authority: 93
  [Video Link for Email/Other Subscribers - 5min] Interesting video from the Environmental Defense Fund on their progress and achievements for 2009. Very well executed and informative for 5 minutes. However, you might notice that the speaker’s head and sometimes those in pictures shown are a bit narrow. For one, ...
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• Additional Names of Visitors Are Released by White House

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  A roster of business executives, Democratic strategists and lobbyists came to the White House for meetings, events or tours.
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• As for the Chambers "we speak for 3 million members" tagline...

  
  SEIU — Authority: 137
  Recently, more and more Local Chambers of Commerce have been publicly distancing themselves from their parent trade group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Theyre unhappy with many of the big business policies the U.S. Chamber is supporting. Which begs the question: if the Chamber isnt representing the interests of ...
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• An Astute Translation of the Banks’ Case Against New Regulations

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 760
  The finance industry, seeming to forget that it was responsible for the economic turmoil that’s pushed unemployment above 10 percent , is lobbying furiously (and successfully ) against Democratic legislation designed to protect consumers and prevent a similar episode in the future. Yesterday, industry ...
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• National Briefing | Washington: Sentencing in Lobbying Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  A former Justice Department lawyer was spared a jail sentence for his role in the influence-peddling case surrounding the convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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• 9th Circuit Upholds Ban on Class Actions by Legal Aid Lawyers

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 578
  A federal appeals court has upheld restrictions on legal aid lawyers funded by the Legal Services Corp., including a ban on filing class actions. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the rules, enacted along with LSC budgets each year since 1996, in an opinion on Monday, the San Francisco ...
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• Man Wrongly Jailed for Murder Helps Make Case for Actual Innocence Test

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 578
  A little-noticed opinion by a New York judge earlier this month didnt simply free Fernando Bermudez after 18 years in prison in a murder case. It found that he didnt commit the crime. By doing so, Manhattan Supreme Court John Cataldo lent further weight to growing concern that not simply new evidence or constitutional ...
  3 days ago

• After AWOL Argentine Affair, Gov. Sanford Now Faces Ethics Charges Over Expenses

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 578
  The governor of South Carolina is accused of taking illicit upgrades from coach to business or first class, as well as misusing government planes for personal purposes including a haircut, in 37 charges filed today by the state ethics commission. Gov. Mark Sanford has been scrutinized on multiple fronts after a secret ...
  3 days ago

• Lawmaker Investments and Disclosure Part II

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 609
  Following up on the previous post , I took a look at the Baird bill ( H.R. 682 ) to require disclosure of political intelligence firms and consultants and to require increased disclosure of lawmaker investments in stocks and futures. There is really only one major point in the registration and disclosure required for ...
  3 days ago

• Health Care Debate Revives Abortion Campaigners

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Feeling a threat from proposed legislation, both sides are mobilizing supporters like they haven’t in years.
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• ENDA Grassroots Lobbying: Rep. Ciro Rodriguez’s Office

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  A group of HRC activists and their allies visited Rep. Ciro Rodriguez’s north side office last week to ask for his support for H.R. 3017 — the fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Those in attendance included HRC Governors Elizabeth Schleigh and George Page, Steering Committee members ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Dysfunctional advocacy

  
  Space Politics — Authority: 495
  In today’s issue of The Space Review I summarize some of the recent lobbying efforts, and the problems associated with them , that I’ve discussed here in the last week or so, including the dueling March Storms, the SaveNASA effort, and Save Space’s letter-writing campaign. A couple of items in the article that ...
  3 days ago

• Lawmaker Investments and Disclosure

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 609
  According to an article in today’s Washington Post , the number of lawmakers owning and trading stocks has nearly tripled since 2001. This brings with it a concern that personal financial conflicts of interest may interfere with the honest legislating the public expects from their representatives or appear to to ...
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• Political Efficiency

  
  Chemical Facility Security News — Authority: 137
  I ran into a brief interesting piece on Pharmaceutical-Business-Review.com about the efficacy lobbying effort that went on leading up to the House vote on HR 2868. It notes that Socma (sic) Connect targeted some members of Congress with a letter writing campaign to gain their support. Only two targeted members were ...
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• Sceptics and oil lobbyists “putting world at risk”

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 467
  Slowly there is some political progress as we edge towards Copenhagen. Some sixty five world leaders will attend the Copenhagen climate talks, although whether Obama actually attends is still anyone’s guess. Moreover over the last fortnight, three big countries have made major new pledges to cut their carbon ...
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• Is America Ungovernable?

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 135
  Otto von Bismark, the 19th century Iron Chancellor and architect of modern Germany, once remarked that “If you like law and sausages, you shouldn’t watch either being made.” One could observe that this is not quite correct; the process of stuffing offal into sausage skins is far less disgusting than that of ...
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• HR1207 Passes committee against Barney Frank’s wishes

  
  blog of bile — Authority: 123
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials ...
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• Despite law, Jim Smith keeps FSU post

  
  The Buzz: Florida Politics — Authority: 601
  Steve Bousquet: Seven years ago, Jim Smith got a coveted seat at the Noles head table with an appointment to the Florida State University board of trustees....But how does a guy get to stretch a four-year appointment into seven years? Arent there other qualified people eager to serve? The answer is simple: Smith has ...
  5 days ago

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