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  Digital Destiny — Authority: 117
  
  6 hours ago

• Saving the Galaxy: The C-5 AMP/RERP Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 558
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Taking Attendance, Somos Edition

  
  The Daily Politics - NY Daily News Blogs — Authority: 732
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Pelosi Faces Competing Pressures on Health Care

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  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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• Boeings KC-X bid wont go hiking on Appalachian Trail

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 583
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• No Climate Deal for Over a Year

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 123
  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: 573
  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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• Medicare Part D Planners Now Fighting Health Insurance Reform

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 575
  At least 25 former federal officials and legislative aides who helped draft the 2003 Medicare Part D drug benefit are now working as lobbyists for pharmaceutical interests trying and protect the lucrative drug payment system in negotiations for health care reform. In 2008, the House Committee on Oversight found ...
  3 days ago

• More letter writing

  
  Space Politics — Authority: 531
  While Save Space has gone into overtime in its bid to solicit a half-million letters to the White House on space exploration policy, members of Congress are also writing letters, to both fellow members of Congress as well as the White House. The Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday on the latest effort by ...
  4 days ago

• H1N1 – Pharma Industry Conspiracy

  
  Sound Of Sirens — Authority: 108
  Definitely worth beeing reblogged: Jean-Jacques Crèvecoeur, ein sympathischer, couragierter Mediziner, dem die Teilnahme der Konferenz in Frankreich durch die Regierung Sarkozy verboten wurde, schreibt in einem Rund-E-Mail auszugsweise: «Ich sende Ihnen diese E-Mail aus eigener Initiative. Ich diene niemandes ...
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• From Protests to Litigation to YouTube: A Longitudinal Case Study of Strategic Lobby Tactic Choice for the Buffalo Field Campaign.

  
  Watching YouTube — Authority: 129
  Shanahan, Elizabeth A., Mark K. McBeth, Linda Tigert, and Paul L. Hathaway. From Protests to Litigation to YouTube: A Longitudinal Case Study of Strategic Lobby Tactic Choice for the Buffalo Field Campaign. Social Science Journal (2010). Abstract: The interest group literature has long explored under what ...
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• WIRE WATCH: Black Is Back, GOP Intensifies Protests Over Health Care, Yet Another G-20, Biden Discusses Future of the Middle Class, Gore Chats Up Upcoming Book

  
  WSJ.com: Washington Wire — Authority: 780
  A roundup of the days notable events.
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• Cruise Control

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 759
  When conservatives scream about socialized medicine and death panels, you should tune them out. But lately conservatives have been making an argument you should hear.
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• The only winning strategy is not to play the game…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 106
  How is it that America legislative politics have gotten so out of touch, so out of hand– so out of whack?  It’s no secret that lobbying has contorted the system.  Here, from UC Berkeley Post-Doc Fellow David Zetland, a wonderfully elegant explanation of how… He demonstrates the “all-pay auction,” in which ...
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• The Podesta Watch: White House Visits, Red Shoes and 61 Percent Gains

  
  California Stem Cell Report — Authority: 432
  Tony Podesta, the California stem cell agencys man on the Potomac, is making news again, largely for flashy fundraising and access to the Obama White House.Podesta was hired as a federal lobbyist by CIRM last February under a 10-month, $240,000 contract. California state agencies, rarely if ever, hire federal ...
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• A Less Than Opaque Look At Mel Watt’s Motivations To Kill The “Audit The Fed” Bill

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 618
  This is a guest post from Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge . Rep. Mel Watt There has been lots of speculation on why Representative Mel Watt has done his best to make sure that the Audit the Fed bill will be gutted, and why the Congressman is willing to promote the same irresponsible and unaccountable bubble-inflating ...
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• DC Lobbyist Says Obama is Talking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 596
  Randy Barrett: Jankowsky: Obama’s Double StandardThe Obama administration is talking out of both sides of its mouth regarding special interests, writes longtime D.C. lobbyist Joel Jankowsky in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece Tuesday.Share on FacebookRelated posts:Talking Out Of Both Sides Of His GrassleyBeltway ...
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• Federal Lobbyists have Increasingly Terminated Their Registrations

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 133
  OMB Watch and the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) has found that lobbyists have began terminating their formal registrations at significantly higher rates than usual. The OMB Watch-CRP press release states that there have been "1,418 deregistrations of federally registered lobbyists during the second quarter ...
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• Conservative Transparency for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 575
  Conservative Transparency is a new website from the Media Matters Action Network of Media Matters for America . Although it is partisan, it serves as an excellent complement to the Front Groups portal and astroturf information on CMDs SourceWatch website. According to the Washington Post , Conservative ...
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