Lobbying

Predatory Lenders Fight Regulators With Offer of $500 Visa Gift Cards

Predatory Lenders Fight Regulators With Offer of $500 Visa Gift Cards Predatory Lenders Fight Regulators With Offer of $500 Visa Gift Cards

Predatory lenders are using a front group to fight back against against government oversight. 

Oct 28, 2013 / Lee Fang

Anyone for a Real Inform Act?

Anyone for a Real Inform Act? Anyone for a Real Inform Act?

It was early, but for a moment I thought I was reading something important in an ad in The New York Times. Someone was paying attention to our nation's teetering imbalance! (No...

Oct 25, 2013 / Laura Flanders

The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street

The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street

Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?

Oct 23, 2013 / Feature / Lee Fang

Evan Bayh Uses the Government Shutdown to Shill for the Medical Device Lobby

Evan Bayh Uses the Government Shutdown to Shill for the Medical Device Lobby Evan Bayh Uses the Government Shutdown to Shill for the Medical Device Lobby

Former Senator Bayh appeared on Fox News this morning to call for a repeal of the medical-device tax without disclosing his ties to the industry. 

Oct 13, 2013 / Lee Fang

GOP Lobbyist: Business Needs to ‘Step Up’ Against the Tea Party

GOP Lobbyist: Business Needs to ‘Step Up’ Against the Tea Party GOP Lobbyist: Business Needs to ‘Step Up’ Against the Tea Party

A corporate lobbyist says his party should “nominate Republicans who have a belief in the Constitution as it’s supposed to work out.”

Oct 9, 2013 / Lee Fang

Meet the Evangelical Cabal Orchestrating the Shutdown

Meet the Evangelical Cabal Orchestrating the Shutdown Meet the Evangelical Cabal Orchestrating the Shutdown

The Conservative Action Project, the organization orchestrating the shutdown strategy, is run by a cabal of evangelical and radical-right leaders. 

Oct 8, 2013 / Lee Fang

Tea Party Lawmaker Letter on Med Device Tax Repeal Authored by Lobby Group

Tea Party Lawmaker Letter on Med Device Tax Repeal Authored by Lobby Group Tea Party Lawmaker Letter on Med Device Tax Repeal Authored by Lobby Group

A letter signed by over seventy right-wing lawmakers was authored by a medical device tax industry group, metadata shows.

Sep 28, 2013 / Lee Fang

GOP Debt-Ceiling Bill Violates Boehner’s ‘Pledge to America’

GOP Debt-Ceiling Bill Violates Boehner’s ‘Pledge to America’ GOP Debt-Ceiling Bill Violates Boehner’s ‘Pledge to America’

The House Republican plan to hold the debt ceiling hostage in exchange for over twenty corporate giveaways violates their ethics pledge, which calls for advancing major legislation...

Sep 27, 2013 / Lee Fang

Plutocracy Is the Problem

Plutocracy Is the Problem Plutocracy Is the Problem

WRITING CONTEST FINALIST: It is up to the American people to insist that corporations are not people, money is not speech and elections are not up for sale.

Sep 26, 2013 / StudentNation / Nikhil Goyal and StudentNation

Sabotaging Obamacare Is a Lucrative Endeavor for Some

Sabotaging Obamacare Is a Lucrative Endeavor for Some Sabotaging Obamacare Is a Lucrative Endeavor for Some

Campaign consultants and health insurance agents stand to gain from sabatoging the rollout of health reform. 

Sep 25, 2013 / Lee Fang

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