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Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, have fiercely denounced this aspect of the Byrd Act. "The proposed changes will impose substantial costs on businesses -- particularly small businesses -- which are struggling to create and retain jobs," reads a list of objections issued by industry front-group Coalition for Workplace Safety.
Jake Blumgart: Six Months After Upper Big Branch, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress Jake Blumgart 2010
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Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, have fiercely denounced this aspect of the Byrd Act. "The proposed changes will impose substantial costs on businesses -- particularly small businesses -- which are struggling to create and retain jobs," reads a list of objections issued by industry front-group Coalition for Workplace Safety.
Jake Blumgart: Six Months After Upper Big Branch, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress Jake Blumgart 2010
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He later co-founded both the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain, the Muslim Brotherhood's main British front-group, according to the London-based Quilliam Foundation, an anti-extremist think-tank.
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Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, have fiercely denounced this aspect of the Byrd Act. "The proposed changes will impose substantial costs on businesses -- particularly small businesses -- which are struggling to create and retain jobs," reads a list of objections issued by industry front-group Coalition for Workplace Safety.
Jake Blumgart: Six Months After Upper Big Branch, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress Jake Blumgart 2010
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Americans for Prosperity, a Koch front-group, spent over $200,000 on ads that benefited five of the six GOP freshmen members on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Max Stanley: Koch Brothers Now Attacking EPA Internships Max Stanley 2011
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In another example of the self-awareness of this strategy: On public radio's Marketplace, February 22, Vincent Vernuccio of the Koch/conservative movement/corporate front-group Competitive Enterprise Institute discusses how the real agenda of the state actions is to destroy unions and their ability to fight corporate power politically, not to solve budget problems.
Dave Johnson: What Is the Real Agenda of the Budget-Cutters? Dave Johnson 2011
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In response to the town hall anger, a corporate front-group named 60 Plus is blanketing the radiowaves in Republican districts with these soothing ads thanking them for "preserving and protecting" Medicare.
Dave Johnson: Corporate Propaganda Response To Town Hall Medicare Anger Dave Johnson 2011
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C0C - another shady front-group cashing in on the utter credulity of the so-called “conservative”.
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In response to the town hall anger, a corporate front-group named 60 Plus is blanketing the radiowaves in Republican districts with these soothing ads thanking them for "preserving and protecting" Medicare.
Dave Johnson: Corporate Propaganda Response To Town Hall Medicare Anger Dave Johnson 2011
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Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, have fiercely denounced this aspect of the Byrd Act. "The proposed changes will impose substantial costs on businesses -- particularly small businesses -- which are struggling to create and retain jobs," reads a list of objections issued by industry front-group Coalition for Workplace Safety.
Jake Blumgart: Six Months After Upper Big Branch, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress Jake Blumgart 2010
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