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Democrats reach deal on mortgage relief bill »
Posted by: glassman96 8 months, 1 week ago in News
House Democrats, under pressure from a group of moderates in their ranks and the banking lobby, agreed Tuesday to narrow legislation that gives bankruptcy judges ...
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Researching Foreign Lobbying Activity »
Posted by: VRResearch 8 months ago in Business & Finance
In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a premium on understanding how foreign governments and businesses work to influence U.S. policy and public opinion ...
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Akin Gump Wins Big in Lobbying Revenues »
Posted by: rogerj 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Am Law 200 firms Covington & Burling, K&L Gates, Dickstein Shapiro, and McGuireWoods were among the law firms that made the most cash from lobbying ...
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National Retailers Refuse To Apologize For Claiming eBay Leads To Crime »
Posted by: idyll 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Earlier this week, we noted that the National Retail Federation, a lobbying group made up of a bunch of large traditional retailers, had claimed to ...
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Contractors Nervous About Losing Immunity in Iraq »
Posted by: idyll 12 months ago in News
The industry is so concerned, in fact, that the president of one of its leading trade groups fired off a letter (.pdf), dated October 8 ...
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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Obama limits stimulus lobbying »
Posted by: ap 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says lobbyists pushing for projects in the stimulus package can't utter a word about them to administration officials. Lobbyists ...
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THE INFLUENCE GAME: NRA clout shapes policy agenda »
Posted by: ap 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Democrats acted last month to give the District of Columbia long-denied voting rights in Congress, the powerful gun lobby saw a target ...
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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Lobbying to land the Olympics »
Posted by: ap 7 months, 1 week ago in News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bringing the Olympics to the United States is a cause most American politicians can support. Still, the Chicago 2016 organizing committee figures a ...
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