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Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation is the same man who represented Stanford Financial Group and its now-indicted founder R. Allen Stanford between 2002 [...]
What Does Allen Stanford Have in Common with Amazon Defense Coalition? Lobbyist Ben Barnes
June 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments
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Obama Proposals Put Six Million Jobs at Risk (Updated)
March 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
President Barack Obama will increase U.S. reliance on foreign oil by eliminating the deduction for drilling in the U.S. and put at risk up to 6 million jobs directly and indirectly reliant on the industry. That’s the message being delivered to all who will hear it by official and unofficial representatives of the American Petroleum [...]
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Report Explains Why Immigration Reform Wanes
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Why does Congress do so little to enact real immigration reform legislation? A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform offers answers.
The report, Immigration Lobbying: A Window into the World of Special Interests (pdf), is the first and only study of lobbying on immigration policy and reveals a scope of influence previously unknown. [...]
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