Al Norman: Wal-Mart Loses Backroom Lobbying Effort in California
Bill To Gut Environmental Review Dies in Last Moments of Legislative Session Sacramento, CA. Despite spending more than $246,750 on a Sacramento, California lobbying firm,...
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3 Reps Under Further Investigation Over Alleged Bribery Tied To Financial Reform Votes
WASHINGTON â House investigators have recommended that three lawmakers be further investigated to determine whether political contributions were improperly linked to votes on the huge financial overhaul bill.The independent House Office...
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States Challenging Health Care Law Also Claiming Its Benefits
Seven states suing to overturn President Barack Obama's health care law have nonetheless claimed subsidies available under the law for covering retired state employees, the Associated Press reports. The states, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mi...
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Norman Ornstein: We Must Reform The Filibuster
AFTER months of debate, Senate Democrats this summer broke a Republican filibuster against a bill to extend unemployment benefits. But the Republicans insisted on applying a technicality in the Senate rules that allowed for 30 more hours of ...
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Despite Reform, Banks Have Room For Risky Deals
When Congress passed a new financial regulation bill last month, it sought to prevent federally insured banks from making speculative bets using their own money. But that will not stop banks from making bets that some critics deem risky, eve...
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Obama Challenges GOP To Stop Blocking Rules That Would Limit Corporate Donations
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP)-- President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads. Instead, the GOP wants to "keep the pu...
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Senate Dysfunction Could Be Tackled By Chamber’s Newest Members
WASHINGTON — Those who hold the Senate in low esteem can get a sympathetic ear from some of the chamber's newer members. These lawmakers also are fed up with the Senate's ways and would like to change them. "A graveyard of good ideas"...
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Taibbi unloads on the deliberately limp financial reform bill
But Dodd-Frank was neither an FDR-style, paradigm-shifting reform, nor a historic assault on free enterprise. What it was, ultimately, was a cop-out, a Band-Aid on a severed artery. If it marks the end of anything at all, it represents the end of the best opportunity we had to do something real about the criminal hijacking [...]
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Mary Bottari: President Obama, Give Liz a Job
Elizabeth Warren is one of the most educated, clear thinking, ethical advocates for the consumer that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing...
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Andrew Palmer Faked Seizures to Run Out on Scores of Restaurant Bills
Okay, so you have to admit this is pretty funny -- unless you own a restaurant. Andrew Palmer is a career con-man and thief with 34 previous convictions. It seems he like to dine and drink his wa...
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