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  1. Financial regulation deadlines missed

    By Nancy Watzman May 11, 2011 2:20 p.m.

    In April, federal financial agencies missed every single rulemaking deadline--26 of them--mandated by the massive Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, according to a recent report by the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardell.

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  2. AT&T cultivates key Latino lawmaker

    By Nancy Watzman May 11, 2011 8:07 a.m.

    Four days before Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., publicly praised AT&T's announced aquisition of T-Mobile USA, AT&T's Political Action Committee (PAC) sent him a contribution for $1,000, adding to $4,000 already donated since the start of the year for his campaign fund.

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  3. Senate wants to "check in" on mobile developments

    By Joshua Hatch May 6, 2011 10:04 a.m.

    Few electronic devices have become as personal and ubiquitous as the mobile phone. Or as contentious. A few weeks ago, researchers discovered previously unknown location tracking files on the iPhone. Before that, the country's second-largest wireless carrier (AT&T) agreed to buy the fourth (T-Mobile). Next week the Senate will hold two hearings to look at these issues.

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  4. Eight lawmakers signed a letter for Renco

    By Keenan Steiner May 4, 2011 11:41 a.m.

    Eight members of Congress signed on to a January letter asking the heads of the Treasury and State Departments to take measures to intervene on behalf of a U.S.-owned company in the middle of a controversial dispute with Peru. Until now, Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., was the only known signatory of the letter sent to Secretaries Tim Geithner and Hlllary Clinton. 

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  5. Princess and the policy

    By Lindsay Young Apr 28, 2011 10:21 a.m.

    There is a special role for princesses in international diplomacy and some like Princess Diana and Queen Noor of Jordan captivated the imagination of the world with their charm and humanitarian work, but others play a more formal diplomatic and public relations role and appear in foreign lobbying records.

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  6. Sunlight Live covers Bernanke press conference

    By Joshua Hatch Apr 27, 2011 10:57 a.m.

    Today Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will do something no other Fed chairman has done before: He'll hold a press conference immediately following an Open Market meeting. The Federal Reserve says the press conference is designed to "to further enhance the clarity and timeliness of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy communication." And Sunlight Live will cover it through our award-winning live blog platform. Joining us at 2:15 p.m. ET will be USA TODAY's financial reporter John Waggoner.

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  7. As dispute heats up, Renco continues lobbying for its Peruvian smelter

    By Keenan Steiner Apr 26, 2011 4:03 p.m.

    The U.S. mining conglomerate Renco Group spent over $80,000 in the first quarter and retained five lobbying firms in a push to convince Washington to help its embattled smelting company in Peru, according to lobbying filings. This comes after the company spent $245,000 on fees to outside lobbyists to work on the issue of Doe Run Peru in the final two months of last year.

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  8. Unofficial Libyan ambassador registers with FARA

    By Lindsay Young Apr 25, 2011 4:27 p.m.

    In a sign of the ambiguity of international policy toward Libya, Ali Suleiman Aujali, the diplomat who made headlines when he defected from the Gadafi Government in February, has registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. Justice Department to represent the Transitional National Council of Libya, the umbrella group representing the forces opposed to the rule of Muammar Gaddafi.

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  9. 2012 Presidential winner...

    By Bill Allison Apr 25, 2011 3:52 p.m.

    ...in the category of "Most incomprehensible FEC filing, exploratory committee division"

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  10. First glimpse at medical error rates separates the good, the bad and the ugly

    By Sarah Dorsey Apr 25, 2011 11:28 a.m.

    Between Oct. 1, 2008 and June 30, 2010, Medicare patients at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, N.Y., suffered thirteen instances of severe bed sores during their stay requiring additional treatment, a rate of nearly 2.9 per 1,000 treated. At St. John’s Riverside Hospital, three miles down Broadway from St. Joseph’s, the rate was 20 times lower: only one severe bed sore was reported, even though St. John's discharged far more Medicare patients during that period -- 8,270 to St. Joseph's 4,541.

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  11. What we don't know about doctors

    By Nancy Watzman Apr 21, 2011 2:02 p.m.

    As political debate rages in Washington about how to reform the nation’s $509 billion Medicare system, a hearing is taking place in a Florida courtroom today about making data available to the public on how much individual physicians are paid under the program.

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  12. Wal-Mart, international taxes feature in latest lobbying registrations

    By Bill Allison Apr 20, 2011 10:16 a.m.

    Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, has hired Capitol Counsel, a firm that includes former Ways and Means chairman Jim McCrery, to monitor corporate tax issues. McCrery was also among the lobbyists hired by Renco Group, which hired a slew of lobbyists in its battle with the government of Peru. We reported on Renco here.

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  13. Wall Street revolver takes regulatory insight to Bank of America

    By Ryan Sibley Apr 18, 2011 1:55 p.m.

    One Wall Street revolver will continue a very successful post-regulatory agency career with a newly created position at Bank of America, the nation's largest bank.

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  14. Sunlight Live covers deficit reduction

    By Joshua Hatch Apr 13, 2011 11 a.m.

    This morning the Sunlight Foundation will use its award-winning live platform, Sunlight Live (sunlightlive.com) to cover the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on deficit reduction. We'll follow that hearing with live coverage of President Obama's speech on that same topic.

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