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Donors to Senate GOP super committee members seek tax cuts, tax breaks
By Bill Allison Sep 6, 2011 12:42 p.m.The Club for Growth, which advocates making permanent some tax cuts and eliminating entirely others that, over just two years, would amount to more than $765 billion in lost revenues over two years, is a top donor to two of the three Republican Senators on the Joint Select Committee on Debt Reduction--the super committee. Other top donors include a hedge fund run by a top Republican donor that invests in, among other things, defaulted debt of sovereign nations, corporations trying to shield income earned overseas from U.S. taxes, and utility firms seeking to avoid regulation of greenhouse gases.
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Sunlight Live to cover Rick Perry's debate debut in California
By Tessa Muggeridge Sep 1, 2011 12:37 p.m.With a new face officially in the mix, eight Republican candidates will take the stage again next week to spar about the economy, jobs, budget deficit and more at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library in Simi Valley, Calif.
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Super committee member Upton creates joint fundraising committee
By Chris Zubak-Skees Aug 31, 2011 4:13 p.m.Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., one of the members of the Joint Select Committee for Deficit Reduction, filed paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission to create a joint fundraising committee. Contributions collected by the committee will be split between Upton's campaign and leadership PAC.
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Donors to super committee Senate Dems lobby for tax breaks, federal funding
By Bill Allison Aug 31, 2011 11:31 a.m.Companies that earn billions from Pentagon contracts and lobby for billions more, universities that receive billions in research funding and financial firms that oppose new taxes and support old tax breaks for their industry figure in the top career donors to the three Senate Democrats on the super committee.
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Shrinking of private practice may drive up health care costs: study
By Sarah Dorsey Aug 29, 2011 11:43 a.m.Over the last three years, more and more doctors have left private practice to work for hospitals. A new study has found that this trend might be contributing to the rising cost of health care, at least in the short term.
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Canadian government, oil interests keep close watch on oil pipeline verdict
By Lindsay Young Aug 26, 2011 11:16 a.m.Environmental protesters gathered Wednesday in front of the White House calling to stop the extension of a crude oil pipeline, from the midwest to the Gulf coast ahead of a State deparment environmental study due to come out today. And with pressure from the Obama administration to resolve the deadlock to either go ahead with the project or not by the end of the year, the Canadian government has stepped up their lobbying efforts.
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Big donors to super committee members have a stake in the outcome
By Bill Allison Aug 25, 2011 2:01 p.m.Members of the Joint Committee on Debt Reduction--the better known as the super committee--bring a host of priorities, policy positions and potential political posturing to the table. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., labeled Standard & Poors' revision of the U.S. credit the "Tea Party downgrade," while Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, took to the floor of the House to argue against raising the debt ceiling. But beyond their public pronouncements are private interests--longtime supporters of each member of the super committee--who are far more concerned with their own bottom lines than they are with scoring political points.
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FEC surrenders in Hybrid Super PAC case
By Bill Allison Aug 24, 2011 12:09 p.m.The Federal Election Commission has settled a dispute with a political action committee that will allow it to both contribute to federal candidates like a traditional PAC and to take unlimited contributions from corporate, labor or individuals for use in making independent expenditures.
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Virginia quake shuts nuclear power plant
By Bill Allison Aug 23, 2011 3:52 p.m.A 5.8 magnitude earthquate with an epicenter in Mineral, Va., some 84 miles from Washington, D.C., caused a nuclear power plant in Virginia to shut down, and caused "unusual event declarations" at nine other nuclear generating plants, CNN reports.
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A look back at Gaddafi’s lobbying as his regime falls
By Lindsay Young Aug 22, 2011 2:31 p.m.Libyan rebel forces now hold most of Tripoli. Gaddafi’s sons have been captured but the eccentric Libyan dictator remains elusive.
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Companies pay to honor Clyburn, other Super Committee members, at charity events
By Keenan Steiner Aug 19, 2011 11:15 a.m.Lobbyists can not only attempt to influence members of the deficit-cutting super committee by donating to their campaign, but they also have another tool: giving to good causes that honor them.
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Medicare and the Super Committee: Can doctors afford to lose two percent of their payments?
By Sarah Dorsey Aug 19, 2011 10:08 a.m.Medicare and other health care services could see their funds drained in any number of ways as, over the next few months, the congressional Joint Committee on Debt Reduction--better known as the "super committee"--looks for ways to reduce the national debt.
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Egypt's transitional government lobbies on seeking funds, debt reduction
By Lindsay Young Aug 18, 2011 11:06 a.m.While the Egyptian uprising earlier this year saw the ousting of long time leader Hosni Mubarak and ignited a mass movement across the Middle East, the regime change has not translated to a different approach to U.S. policy. Lobbying records filed by the hired guns of the Egyptian government show a seamless transition from promoting the Mubarak regime to the transitional military rule, seeking funds for Egypt and then asking for a reduction in Egypt’s debt burden.
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Dodd Frank: How rating agencies contributed to the financial crisis
By Anupama Narayanswamy Aug 18, 2011 9:56 a.m.The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in response to the financial crisis of 2008, added new regulations and new regulators for some—but not all—of the institutions whose actions led to the crisis. Over the next several days, we’ll be taking a look at each of the major groups of contributors to the economic crisis, who the major players were, what political influence they brought to bear on Congress and regulators, how Dodd-Frank intends to regulate them, and, using our new Dodd-Frank Meeting Logs tool, what rules these groups are trying to influence as agencies implement the legislation.
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