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Original Technorati articles tagged “lobbying”

• in Politics
  Congress Wants the Skinny on Weight Loss Surgery Business
  Congress wants more transparency in ads for Lap Band Surgery.
  by sethjared / on Jan 25, 2012
• in Politics
  Wall Street Fears Occupy Wall Street?
  The financial industry has much to fear from Occupy Wall Street, according to a leaked memo.
  by stephengfm / on Nov 19, 2011
• in Politics
  The Wrong Text in the Wrong Place
  States try to clamp down on text-messaging between lobbyists and lawmakers during public meetings.
  by barrytechno / on Mar 27, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “lobbying”

 

• Wall Streets lawfare strategy against regulation | Heidi Moore

  
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  After lobbying Congress to weaken the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, big banks are delivering the coup de grace by litigation Last week, in a Washington, DC courtroom, a whole bunch of powerful people gathered with a common purpose: to try to kill the Dodd-Frank financial reform act. That quest may seem a bit ...
  14 hours ago

• Wall Street is winning the long war against post-crash regulation | Heidi Moore

  
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  Feeble as it was, Dodd-Frank was a high point of reining in abuses. Thanks to financial lobbying, its business as usual Less than ten years ago, if a Wall Street trader wanted to find a sucker to buy bad mortgages, he knew where to find him: often, sitting in an office in a German landesbank in a small city, looking ...
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• JOBS You Say?

  
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  The Tech Industry is the wicked witch to the west as to the east.  They have as much self interest, grandiosity and agressivity when it comes to lobbying Congress for legisilation that can serve both coasts well. The JOBS act is one such act that accomplishes the end that justify the means.  And the means is that ...
  5 days ago

• News You Can Use Digest – June 14, 2013

  
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  National: Business Donations to Judges’ Campaigns Often Equal Friendly Rulings State Legislators’ Ties to Nonprofit Groups Prove Fertile Ground for Corruption Federal: U.S. Attorney’s Office Files Suit against Lobbying Firm From the States and Municipalities: Colorado – Colorado Secretary ...
  5 days ago

• (Update) Omnibus voter suppression bill HB 2305 passes the Senate on reconsideration

  
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  Posted by AzBlueMeanie: How many times have I told you that its never over until sine die? In a late-night final act of betrayal before saying goodbye, the Senate reconsidered the "omnibus" voter suppression bil, HB 2305 , and Republican Sens. Steve Pierce, John McComish and Rich Crandall -- who had earlier voted ...
  5 days ago

• Parties in Supreme Court DNA Dispute Have Met in Washington Before

  
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  The Supreme Court found Thursday that human genes in their natural form cannot be patented, resolving an ongoing debate between medical research companies that became a question for the justices in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics . Myriad Genetics , a medical research firm, had filed patents ...
  5 days ago

• Weathers Apolitical; NWS Employees, Maybe Not

  
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  Washington, D.C., is dreading the potential derecho, or linear cluster of thunderstorms, set to wreak havoc tonight here and in other parts of the Mid-Atlantic. In the U.S., one in five people  are in the path of the storm.  However, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night has stopped weather from ...
  6 days ago

• New Zealand Hires Covington for Visa Lobbying

  
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  Covington & Burling in Washington has signed up to lobby for another country looking to make it easier for its citizens to enter the United States. New Zealand has hired Covington to help create "a legislative solution and strategy for facilitating greater trade and investment between the United States and New ...
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• Tech Firms Launch “Keep Us Here” Campaign to Support Immigration Reform

  
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  Engine Advocacy ‘s coalition of tech firms – including heavyweights such as Firefox, Yelp and Google – recently launched “ Keep Us Here ,” an advocacy campaign to support comprehensive immigration reform. The site encourages people “to fight for an immigration system that works for America in a global ...
  6 days ago

• MoD lobbying claims: peers cleared of code breach

  
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  Lords Dannatt and Stirrup were alleged to have boasted about lobbying MoD officials to secure contracts for private firms An investigation into two peers who allegedly used their influence within the Ministry of Defence to lobby on behalf of commercial interests has cleared them of breaching the House of Lords code ...
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• MoD lobbying claims: peers cleared of code breach

  
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  Lords Dannatt and Stirrup were alleged to have boasted about lobbying MoD officials to secure contracts for private firms An investigation into two peers who allegedly used their influence within the Ministry of Defence to lobby on behalf of commercial interests has cleared them of breaching the House of Lords code ...
  6 days ago

• Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on immigration bill

  
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  By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eager to secure more visas for skilled foreign workers, tech companies have stepped up their lobbying … Continue reading → Read the full story: Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on immigration bill from: Technology News | ElectroGeek
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• Pro-Plan B Groups Pro-Obama Investments Seeming Well-Placed

  
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  The Obama administrations announcement this week that it would drop its opposition to sales of the most popular emergency contraceptive to all women and girls was sure to please some of his core constituencies: advocacy groups focused on womens issues and abortion rights. Though largely supportive of the president, ...
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• S. Orangetown’s Ken Mitchell new president of superintendents group

  
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  The Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents—an increasingly forceful voice for public education in NYS—has chosen South Orangetown Superintendent Ken Mitchell has its president for 2013-14. The Council includes about 80 school chiefs from Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties. Mitchell has ...
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• Merksamer Makes Only Bid For Stem Cell Agency Lobbying Contract

  
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  Only one of Californias lobbying firmsis interested in working for the California stem cell agency – atleast interested enough to put in a bid. However, that is likely more of afunction of the small size of the contract – $65,000 – and theentrenched nature of CIRM s existing lobbyist – Nielsen, ...
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• U.S. Chamber Taps Brownstein for Immigration Lobbying

  
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  After lobbying for the U.S. Chamber of Commerces legal reform group for five years, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Washington has received a new assignment from the business federation. The Chamber has tapped Brownstein to advocate for it on congressional immigration reform proposals, according to lobbying ...
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• Pope Is Quoted as Acknowledging a Vatican ‘Gay Lobby’

  
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  Francis is said to have discussed a dossier he had received from his predecessor, Benedict XVI: “The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there.”        
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• Outside Contractors May Have Influenced NSA, Lobbyists Wont Talk

  
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  K Street lobbyists may have a thing or two to teach us about bipartisanship. Recent reports concerning the latest NSA scandals suggest major super-computer makers, defense contractors and telecommunication companies are big on landing a hand to any member of the political class from both sides of the aisle, so long ...
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• Kerry Marsh, lobbyist, lawyer

  
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  Kerry Marsh, a lobbyist and lawyer with a host of clients, including Canadian National and the Independent Schools, passed away a few days ago at age 69. His firm expected there would be no calling hours. His death happened on Sunday or Saturday, according to friends. He has been a fixture in the Capitol for more ...
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• AIMA Chief To Leave

  
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  Alternative Investment Management Association CEO Andrew Baker has spent substantially all of his four-year tenure dealing with the threat of new hedge fund regulations. And hell close it out in the wake of the implementation of one of them. read more
  1 week ago

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