lobbyists

A big lobbying push was needed for a big Ask — the term lobbyists use to describe what they are pleading for from Congress.

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If we can't stop the lobbyists is there anyway we can tax that money.

Durbin: Senate Dems expect to miss Obama health care deadline

But if Strauss came clean, someone might call him an influence peddler - even worse than a lobbyist, though not quite so bad as a fixer, the term lobbyists really hate.

Lobby? Me? Whatever Makes You Say That?

Until the power of the lobbyists is diminished, the chance that anything benefiting the American people getting passed is slim.

GOP: Dems' health care reform plan 'a prescription for disaster'

What was the point of banning lobbyists from a conference call?

Matthew Yglesias » Googooism in Action

The inclusion of this provision was a huge victory for the lobbyists from the for-profit health insurance corporations. datingjesus

Buh-bye, Stupak-Pitts amendment. « Dating Jesus

The truly talented writers, or cleverest investigators, or most connected reporters will be able to support themselves as "professional" journalists, while the vast majority of English majors will find that their skill at rewriting canned stories from lobbyists is simply not very valuable.

Archive 2009-06-01

Sounds like all the 24/7 propaganda and deep pockets of Big Oil API lobbyists is paying off.

Obama energy plan opens Atlantic and Gulf drilling

Those politicians are framing the debate in exactly the terms the lobbyists want them to.

David Sirota: How Money Has Framed the Egypt Debate

Earlier this year, twelve Democratic senators spent a weekend fundraising at a private retreat in Miami Beach with lobbyists from the American Bankers Association, drug companies, and defense contractors.

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