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• US allocates 1.5 billion dollars for Pak in 2010 budget

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec. 11 (ANI): The United States has allocated approximately 1.5 billion dollars for Pakistan in its budget for the 2010 fiscal year.According to sources, the US House of Representatives has approved 1.459 billion in assistance for Pakistan as it passed a massive 1.1 trillion dollar appropriations bill.The ...
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• Senate Tied in Knots Over Proposal to Allow Imported Drugs

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Democratic leaders delayed a vote because they feared the proposal would be approved, blowing apart a deal negotiated by the White House and the pharmaceutical industry.
  16 hours ago

• Oil Lobby Adds Diversity To Its Anti-Clean Energy Pamphlet By Photoshopping Minorities Into Stock Photos

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 832
  In August, The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson noted that the coal industry had contracted a PR firm to promote its “ FACES of Coal ” campaign. To attack clean energy reform, the campaign featured pictures of seemingly normal individuals opposed to cap and trade legislation. However, the Appalachian Voices’ Front ...
  21 hours ago

• Oil Lobby Photo Altered To Present Racially Diverse Image

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 778
  It looks like the oil lobbys bamboozlement habit is so ingrained that it extends even to cosmetic touches. The website Astrotruth.org notes that an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet given out at a forum last week appears to show oil and gas industry employees as a racially diverse group of people. Check it ...
  22 hours ago

• A Few Words about Philanthropy

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 142
  In 2005, more than one in every four adults reported doing some volunteer work. I dont know exactly what definition was used. Chances are that coaching your kids soccer team counted. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Editorial: From the Alps to the Pits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  It is time to close the loopholes used by lawmakers to evade a ban on lobbyist-financed Congressional junkets by having nonprofit groups cover their expenses.
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• Lobbyists Suck and I Guess the Ethics Commission Does Too. By Youbetcha

  
  EYE ON MIAMI — Authority: 506
  You want to know what is wrong with the county? It boils down to money. Look at this December 9th press release from the "never find anyone guilty" Ethics Commission:Three related complaints (C 09-16, C 09-17 and C 09-18) were dismissed by the Ethics Commission. Attorneys Juan Mayol, Joseph Goldstein and Richard ...
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• Lobbyists and Republicans Huddle As Financial Reform Ball Moves Down Field

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 612
  Roll Call reports that House Republican leadership met with approximately 100 lobbyists to hash out strategy to defeat financial regulatory reform: In a call to arms, House Republican leaders met with more than 100 lobbyists at the Capitol Visitors Center on Tuesday afternoon to try to fight back against financial ...
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• Killing Us Softly: Democrats Push Watered Down (Pussified) Version of Health Care Reform

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 438
  Thanks for nothing you worthless gang of lobbyists’ whores.  Both sides.
  2 days ago

• What is Rodney Barreto Up To This December? By Geniusofdespair

  
  EYE ON MIAMI — Authority: 506
  Keeping tabs on lobbyist Rodney is a good filler for this blog. The Miami Herald reported yesterday that he is paving the way for getting public funds for Land Shark Stadium:But, for the changes the NFL wants in Land Shark Stadium before putting more Super Bowls in it, there could be some crying for public funds. On ...
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• President Obama: We will not back down (Blast email from DNC)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As we head into the final stretch on health reform, big insurance company lobbyists and their partisan allies hope that their relentless attacks and millions of dollars can intimidate us into accepting the status quo. So I have a message for them, from all of us: Not this time. We have come too far. We will not turn ...
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• Congress in action: Sweetheart jobs and loophole travel

  
  The Platform — Authority: 498
  Max Baucus So Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., had no problem recommending his live-in girlfriend for a $153,200 a-year-gig as U.S. Attorney for Montana. Talk about your sweetheart jobs. And despite new rules intended to do away with lobbyist-paid travel for members of Congress,…
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• NY Lobbyists Charged With Violating State Law

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 448
  ALBANY – Thirteen lobbyists and clients have been charged by the state Commission on Public Integrity with allegedly violating the state’s lobbying law.Patricia Lynch Associates, Inc. was charged with failure to file timely a Statement of Registration disclosing a lobbying contract with Subcontractors Trade ...
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• House Republicans Huddle With Lobbyists to Kill Financial Reform Bill

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 677
  By GottaLaff Roll Call is subscription only, so we only get this much: In a call to arms, House Republican leaders met with more than a 100 lobbyists at the Capitol Visitors Center on Tuesday afternoon to try to fight back against financial regulatory overhaul legislation . Oh good, thats constructive... ...
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• Reids Latest Thorny Issue On Health-Care Bill: Pay-For-Delay

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 778
  Heres an interesting window into the legislative sausage-making process - and a classic example, among countless others, of the way in which Senate leaders working on health-care reform are having to walk a tightrope between well-meaning policy goals and crude political imperatives. As we reported last week, ...
  3 days ago

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  Bildungblog — Authority: 449
  Soft Toilet Paper Becomes Target of Corncob Lobby
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• Bank lobbying e-mail: Quid Pro Quo to kill mortgage modification bill

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 683
  This piece comes from Sam Stein at the Huffington Post The allegation of a quid pro quo was based on an email that [Sen Dick] Durbin received last spring after his amendment to allow judges to modify mortgages for homeowners who enter bankruptcy was defeated on the Senate floor. During a discussion to promote ...
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• Bush administration insiders still influencing climate debate

  
  Facing South — Authority: 603
  In yesterdays televised announcement of the landmark Environmental Protection Agency ruling that greenhouse gases threaten health and the environment and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Administrator Lisa Jackson remarked that more has been done to tackle the problem of global warming in the past 11 months ...
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• Grassley Seeks Details on Medical Financing

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Senator Charles E. Grassley has asked major advocacy organizations about sources of income from drug and device makers.
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• Senator Grassley Seeks Financial Details From Medical Groups

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Senator Charles E. Grassley has asked the American Medical Association and other major advocacy organizations about sources of income from drug and device makers.
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