From 2012 to 2016, interest group-preferred candidates won 60 percent of the time when interest group and party preferences clashed.
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As an interest group, we might expect a certain amount
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That's not an interest group that can be bought off.
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It's not just a matter of brute interest group politics.
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Now a shady interest group is trying to tank it.
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We didn't need to justify ourselves with any other interest group.
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Why are they a special interest group and not anybody else?
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We don't want to be seen as a special interest group.
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All of this is perpetuated to fund one powerful interest group.
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The largest interest group for intersex individuals in Germany, Intersexuelle Menschen e.
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These are issues affecting "society at large," not a niche interest group.
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Hard to imagine any trade pact that wouldn't worry some interest group.
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Stereotyping veterans is not limited to one political party or interest group.
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Mark Takano (D-Calif.) are also attending, as are interest group representatives.
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The NRA seized on this rhetoric to fuel its interest group politics.
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This is normal "interest-group politics," in the jargon of political scientists.
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Free Press, a DC-based public interest group, strongly disputes that assertion.
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C. special interest group" that was propping up "Bob Gray's failing campaign.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with this; it's how interest-group politics work.
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If people care less about politics, you just have normal interest group bargaining.
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Public opinion continues to get trumped by the power of interest group politics.
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In one statement Anbang accused Ms Hu of serving an unnamed "interest group".
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Cruz has taken heat from ethanol interests, a major interest group in Iowa.
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Then every left-of-center interest group piled on with more farcical opposition.
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They have formed an interest group that now spreads well beyond the South.
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Or are we just another interest group that makes cold, purely political calculations?
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Yet another strategy involves classic interest-group politics: try to neutralize some potential opponents.
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It enjoys relatively strong interest group support from hospitals, insurers, employers, and state officials.
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But couldn't party and interest group leaders help working-class Americans overcome these obstacles?
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Meanwhile, agriculture issues are more dominated by interest group lobbying than by sharp partisan conflicts.
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DAN MITCHELL, ECONOMIST: Obviously, you want every interest group to be possible on your side.
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Like any other interest group, it can direct its mission and activities as it chooses.
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Anyone who believes that the federal bureaucracy is not an interest group should take note.
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P.A. will not resolve litigation through backroom deals with any type of special-interest group.
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Women are not a special interest group, and it's demeaning to treat them as such.
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But is he addressing legitimate interest-group concerns or is he pandering to racial fears?
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And elected officials can break promises to cater to public opinion or interest group demands.
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But women are not a special interest group or a minority—we are half the population.
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Yet AARP, the large consumer interest group for Americans over age 50, is suing the EEOC.
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He is the CEO of The Planetary Society, the world's largest non-profit space interest group.
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In other words, they found that they'd become, at least functionally, a Democratic Party interest group.
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But as with almost any interest group, there's a risk of some kind of big ask.
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Going forward, any user will have the ability to try and start a new interest group.
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Do we really want marketers and special interest group agendas dictating what programming lives or dies?
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And the interest group recommends "regular flossing" as part of a hygiene ritual to prevent it.
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You could join a political interest group or volunteer at an environmental awareness event on campus.
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"All Donald Trump consulted was this hard-right special interest group, the Federalist Society," he said.
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The Latino Coalition describes itself as a non-partisan interest group for Hispanic businesses and consumers.
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A 85033 report from public interest group Common Cause found that political forces blunted its impact.
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Nearly every major reliable interest group lined up behind Cuomo, and elected officials likewise fell in line.
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Collective bargaining in the public sector is no different from lobbying by any other special interest group.
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From there, they had the opportunity to become recognized as an interest group within the conservative coalition.
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No interest group showers more money on the Bayou State's politicians than nursing homes and their owners.
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Basically every health care interest group you can think of – hospitals, doctors, insurers, patients — don't support it.
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This was the year that whites became an interest group and not the overwhelming group by default.
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TATE: -- to scare women and treat them as though they are some sort of special interest group.
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The ugly is that in a practical sense industry policy can devolve into narrow interest group politics.
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Every time you shut down a tax break you find an interest group passionate about defending it.
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It can cost a public official their job, harm a judge's prestige, or ruin an interest group.
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The Green New Deal, whatever it ends up being, will affect every interest group in the country.
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Toomey has demonstrated that he is not afraid of the NRA or any other special interest group.
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When the rubber meets the road, ordinary interest-group politics wind up mattering more than ideological considerations.
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Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press Action Fund, ridiculed Blackburn's statement.
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It does not serve your readers to present it merely as a matter of interest-group politics.
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The city was widely regarded as "ungovernable," paralyzed between intractable interest group demands and limited fiscal capacity.
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As core a Democratic interest group as the AFL-CIO refused to endorse McGovern and remained neutral.
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It's a reflection of alumni who are a powerful interest group, who don't want to see a change.
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Why is getting opposition research from a foreign government different, say, from getting it from another interest group?
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"This D.C.-based special interest group wants to force Wisconsin taxpayers to waste money," Hasenberg told the newspaper.
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No family, or cabal, or interest group, or political party grasped power through the drafting and ratification process.
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As immigration policy drives whites into a minority, this type of interest-group "white nationalism" will inexorably increase.
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But what it shouldn't do is hold up needed reform for the sake of one special interest group.
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"This is an enormous win for consumers," said Gene Kimmelman, president of the public interest group Public Knowledge.
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As Oren Cass points out in The City Journal, every demographic or interest group gets its own pander.
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That's roused unusually strong interest group hostility, and that hostility is reflected in an unusually restive congressional caucus.
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They also said she once offered sex in exchange for a job with an unnamed special interest group.
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Before Bloomberg, city politics was noisy—one interest group or another was always criticizing the mayor for something.
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The public interest group Free Press and crafts marketplace Etsy are also expected to sue the FCC eventually.
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Unfortunately, science is often treated as just another interest group to be pushed aside by more powerful interests.
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She was endorsed by virtually every elected official in the party and pretty much every major interest group.
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I coded the rest of the PAC contributors as "interest group PACs," distinguishing them from the formal party organization.
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Women are not a minority group, but women are used to considering themselves as a marginalized special-interest group.
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It might be a chance to learn what being an interest group, in a polarized age, actually looks like.
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Annual illegal athletics wagering totals roughly $150 billion domestically, according to the American Gaming Association, a casino interest group.
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Annual illegal athletics wagering totals roughly $150 billion domestically, according to the American Gaming Association, a casino interest group.
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To wit: Donald Trump triumphed in the Republican primary contest despite insulting nearly every interest group in the nation.
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A former employee of a public interest group tells of being berated by Pai for an offending press release.
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This is pure interest-group liberalism — buying votes with federal money — not an inspiring image of the common good.
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There's a tendency to break national problems into small, interest-group-size chunks and then deliver pandering policy promises.
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The disability community continues to struggle with media and interest-group narratives that frame us as victims or takers.
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Butina never volunteered to have sex with another man in exchange for a position with a special interest group.
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He let Organizing for America wither, and he compromised with every major interest group that stood in his way.
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Known popularly as the Rural Bench or "ruralistas," these politicians comprise the largest single interest group in Brazil's congress.
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One can clearly point to intense interest group politics and the corrosive impact of money on politics as possibilities.
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If an advantaged interest group can wait out the storm of public attention, then it will regain its advantage.
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Passing a single-payer plan requires precisely the same interest group bargaining and logrolling required to pass the ACA.
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A newly elected president with a strong mandate and the public at his back can defeat interest group opposition.
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The author of Prop 60 is Michael Weinstein, the executive director of the private interest group AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).
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But Congress has shown it can't rise above the turf battles and interest group pressure to deal with this challenge.
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This could serve future lobbying efforts as well as assuage the concerns of worried interest group members far from Washington.
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A public interest group wants the Federal Communications Commission to hold off on its proposal to kill net neutrality regulations.
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"From the beginning, this process has been co-opted and hijacked by a small special interest group," Ms. Hobson said.
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Ms. May also won respect by confronting a powerful interest group, the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers.
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The men and women who have worn our nation's uniform deserve something more innovative than hoary old interest-group politics.
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Maybe. They could have offended an interest group (PETA), which could have hurt the box office and swayed the Academy.
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Possibly by accident, they were "forced to" modify a bad domestic policy driven by an anti-competitive domestic interest group.
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However, the dead aren't an interest group—politicians are going to respond to the louder group with more pressing interests.
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Because lots of important politicians will be there, lots of lobbyists and interest group leaders are there to stage events too.
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Joseph Jones of the Gypsy Council, an interest group, suggests that travellers pitch up in places where they are not welcome.
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Early in the case, prosecutors claimed that Butina had tried to exchange sex for a position with a special interest group.
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Another interest group in the region, the Alternative Movement for Individual Liberties (MALI), published a picture in support of the girls.
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Graham's spokesman, Kevin Bishop, dismissed the criticism, saying it's no surprise that a liberal interest group would oppose Graham as chairman.
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But one player stands out above all others, one interest group truly terrifies politicians, one lobby rules them all: old people.
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Too often, policymakers (and the media, too) treat business leaders as disinterested experts, rather than what they are — an interest group.
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But now he and his party are moving quickly to do the bidding of a very different interest group: Big Telecom.
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Today at CES, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced that a few new capabilities will be coming to its namesake technology.
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Huntington's book refers to "interest group politics" as the normal state of affairs, replaced by creedal politics at these exceptional junctures.
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Within the immigration-reform debate, DREAMers aren't an interest group fighting for their own small piece of a much bigger discussion.
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The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest interest group representing LGBT Americans, has formally condemned Trump's rhetoric on a range of issues.
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Once renewable energy becomes an obvious success and, yes, a powerful interest group, anti-environmentalism will start to lose its political grip.
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In other words, the capture of the economy by a certain interest group has led to an economy that is worse off.
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If you think it's a bad plan, then the relative inefficacy of interest group opposition will strike you as a bad thing.
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The move follows a similar call for action from investor interest group ShareSoc on Thursday, ahead of Anglo's AGM on April 21.
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They could convince themselves that using public money to bail out a special interest group is okay if done at market prices.
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Getting both member and interest group support is likely going to revolve around details, which we may not see before the weekend.
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Much of the disaffection with and dysfunction of the Congress results from members succumbing to the ubiquitous interest group culture of Washington.
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August is a time for everyone to refresh, whether you are an elected official, exhausted staffer or interest group engaged in advocacy.
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The NBPC had never endorsed a candidate before (and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, which is hardly a Republican interest group).
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Under the influence of this mentality, evangelicalism turns from a faith into a siege-mentality interest group that reveres a pagan immoralist.
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Politician and special interest group pledges with no technical or commercial pathways are what we have become cynically numb to these days.
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That's what leads to policy that helps only straight white male Americans and thinks of everyone else as a special interest group.
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There's no anti-immigration equivalent of the National Rifle Association — a large, national interest group treated with respect by most Republican politicians.
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" Then the pandering begins, with a line about how women are not a special interest group, and that "all issues are women's issues.
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During the campaign, a conservative pro-business interest group funded a massive disinformation campaign on WhatsApp (the popular messaging app owned by Facebook).
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She insisted that "no politician or interest group" had any influence on the initial decision of the BCC's board to suspend Mr Longworth.
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I think that the interest group that is most at risk in all of these conversations is the startup that hasn't started yet.
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Again, this was expected and teachers' unions — which collectively may be the nation's most powerful public sector interest group — have budgeted for losses.
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A public interest group is accusing the Federal Communications Commission of trying to stifle free speech in the debate over net neutrality regulations.
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A top progressive interest group says it's frustrated with the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) transition advisory committee, saying the roster needs more liberals.
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American politics has been transitioning from interest-group politics to doom-loop politics for decades, and we are now deep into a crisis.
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The result is legislation that's opposed by America's hospital groups, by the AARP, and by virtually every relevant interest group under the sun.
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We have constant, direct access to passionate supporters of candidates who aren't full-time professional political pundits, campaign operatives, or interest group leaders.
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There has been an average of five letters submitted in transition hearings compared to just three-and-a-half in non-transition hearings, and hearings held during the transition period are more likely to have interest group officials speak: 22019 percent of transition hearings had at least one interest group official give testimony versus 23 percent of non-transition hearings.
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There was really no coherent "liberal" ideology that held these groups together, other than an interest group logroll in which each constituency got something.
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"I think many folks would say that runs the risk of marginalizing the poor," said Allie Bohm of the public interest group Public Knowledge.
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Holdren worried that science might make itself appear like an interest group, or that politicians will assume that scientists are marching for selfish goals.
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But he was also an independent, freewheeling celebrity who spoke his mind separately from the interest group politics and internal stakeholders of the GOP.
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"The start of Brett Kavanaugh's tenure on the Supreme Court may look like a victory for one interest group or another," the site reads.
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He asks because I'm an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest group that has sued Seattle over several of its housing ordinances.
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My thought bubble: Everyone's written a million stories about congressional Republicans being pulled between President Trump and some traditionally conservative idea or interest group.
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The Affordable Care Act did this by co-opting the health insurance lobby, the interest group most credited with bringing down the Clinton plan.
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The decision-making process codified these beliefs around social inclusion as every interest group got to hang its ornament on the "Christmas tree" constitution.
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But will there be a diversity of perspectives, pulling talent from public service, academia and interest-group advocacy as well as the private sector?
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Likewise, Public Knowledge, a public interest group with a focus on telecommunication policy and internet law, filed a protective petition in DC on Tuesday.
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The wage gap is rarely seen as a pressing economic problem, but rather as a "women's issue," the interest of a special-interest group.
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Bishop called the retailer Patagonia a special interest group and criticized Chouinard for rejecting an invitation to testify before the House natural resources panel.
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"They're not even working on it," said Lisa Gilbert, who closely tracks Dodd-Frank implementation for the liberal-leaning public interest group Public Citizen.
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Why it matters: Opposition from a politically powerful interest group adds to the headaches of Republicans as they work to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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John Bergmayer, legal director of DC-based interest group Public Knowledge, says the "good faith" subsection can provide a meaningful defense in some cases.
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But CPAC, the ACU, and the conservative movement as a whole have always been about more than that kind of transactional interest group politics.
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What has happened to our ability to treat one another as individual human beings rather than as stereotypes of one interest group or another?
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Now there is another entrenched interest group that is showing the first inklings of potential to become another "unfriendly" force in the world: Cabdrivers.
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced Tuesday a new "LE Audio" standard that will add lots of fun new features to Bluetooth devices.
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When such arguments are made in realms other than our own, we tend to regard them as the special pleading of an interest group.
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Snapchat has now joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) suggesting it's augmented reality glasses could be moving closer to becoming a real product.
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Or do they focus on subsets that are especially relevant to their reelections, such as party members, interest group and community leaders, and donors?
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The decision weakens a powerful Democratic interest group, which is one reason Republicans have fought so hard, for so long, for a judgment like this.
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Among legislative achievements, it can be uniquely explained mostly by the passion and skill of its advocates, rather than structural forces or interest-group incentives.
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D.C.-based non-profit public interest group Public Knowledge also issued a protective petition today, asking the D.C. Court of appeals to review the rollback.
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When change does happen, people eventually become comfortable with a new system, and the new system itself changes interest-group dynamics — but it takes time.
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Clinton confronted Sanders, saying "time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation" he attacks any candidate that has ever taken money from an interest group.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A public interest group urged U.S. officials on Wednesday to free up Washington landmarks for thousands of people planning protests around the Jan.
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"I see a lot of enthusiasm for her from a niche interest group," Ronald J. Hansen, a congressional reporter for the Arizona Republic, told me.
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This transparency measure helped to assure those interested that what an interest group was telling the transition team in private was also shared in public.
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Of course, the majority of the GOP, with substantial pressure from Grover Norquist and his powerful interest group, Americans Against Taxes, continues to oppose it.
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This self-reinforcing culture can also make it harder for women to raise money and garner interest group endorsements, both critical in winning party nominations.
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The N.R.A. shifted from an organization that actually tried to represent gun owners to a special interest group concerned with extreme politics and industry profits.
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Yet those precautions are unlikely to keep visitors from coming into close contact, said a lobbyist for an interest group working to protect national parks.
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If Democrats want to harness our energy going forward, they need to make women less of an interest group and more of a default interest.
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Our work emphasizes exactly the problems that Rich dismisses: interest group opposition and partisan polarization, elected officials with ties to carbon polluters blocking the plan.
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But it's an interest group bonanza with bipartisan appeal, funneling tons of cash into the pockets of technology company shareholders and building trade unions alike.
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But he does so largely because his nascent administration is sustained by support from the institutional Republican Party and its standard business and interest group supporters.
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McDonald's (MCD) announced in April it's partnering with AARP, a nonprofit interest group for aging Americans, to help attract workers who are aged 50 or above.
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Snapchat, which allows users to send pictures and messages to friends, is listed as an adopter on the website of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
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Democrats are more focused on policy specifics and interest group demands and I think that's one of the big things that these campaigns tend to illustrate.
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Prior to joining Google, Davidson was associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a public interest group promoting civil liberties and human rights online.
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" Public Knowledge, a public interest group, said in a statement that the bill would also "remove almost all other FCC consumer protection authority over broadband networks.
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To counter the left's broad campaign, the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative interest group, plans a $2 million radio, TV, and Internet ad buy beginning Monday.
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Chuck Schumer, his colleagues, and their interest group allies will spend a lot of time thinking about the way they spent their energy over the weekend.
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The dagger symbol, (†), is used to indicate when a title is linked to "Institutional, special interest, group, or bulk purchases," according to The New York Times.
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Public Citizen, a public interest group that sued Trump over his two-for-one regulatory order, said the report undercuts the justification for Trump's deregulatory agenda.
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For the past decade, Ms. Toti has worked at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a leading public-interest group involved in court cases across the country.
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"Such a take-over should be unthinkable," former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who now serves as Special Adviser to public interest group Common Cause, told Motherboard.
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The prosecution has made serious missteps in the case, including erroneously accusing Butina of offering sex in exchange for a position in a special interest group.
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But another interest group is driving opposition: those who want to prevent Elizabeth Warren from notching an accomplishment in a Congress led by the opposing party.
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Not surprisingly, those House members were all Southern representatives beholden to a very specific (and almost comical) special interest group that seeks to enrich catfish farmers.
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In separate but similar efforts this week, a corporate lobbying campaign and a grassroots interest group are both calling on Washington to pass a carbon tax.
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"Commissioner O'Rielly advocated for the reelection of President Trump in his official capacity as FCC Commissioner," OSC official Erica Hamrick wrote to the public interest group.
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Pruitt recognizes as far too few do that the EPA bureaucracy is an interest group much too prone to illegal activity as it pursues its objectives.
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If he limits his scope to Democrats, Our Revolution will be no more than an interest group, which is, paradoxically, a conservative and self-interested niche.
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Americans with disabilities want to be recognized as an interest group worth pandering to — not as a source of inspiration or pity for the general public.
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"Sanderson Farms is late to the game, but better late than never," said Matt Wellington, director of the antibiotics program for U.S. PIRG, a public interest group.
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A public interest group is calling for a new federal authority to oversee how the government approaches artificial intelligence technologies as they become central to the economy.
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Every foreign government, trade association, and interest group with a few bucks to spare spends them at the Trump International down the street from the White House.
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But for that to happen, progressive Democrats would have to have substantial control of the White House, the House and Senate — and overcome fierce interest group opposition.
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Nevada's largest police interest group is calling out Michael Bennett -- demanding the NFL take immediate action against the NFL star for "falsely" claiming they racially profiled him.
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" Colette Neuville, head of an interest group representing minority shareholders, said: "I am less opposed to this kind of thing than I was a few years ago.
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East Coast developer Matt Rosendale is only looking out for himself and whatever out-of-state special interest group that is propping up his campaign with cash.
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Craig Holman, a lobbyist at public interest group Public Citizen, says the Labor Department's persuader rule could show the value in expanding advocacy disclosure beyond registered lobbyists.
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A scored vote is one that an interest group uses in compiling the score that it gives a member of Congress at the end of the session.
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Conservative groups also plan to keep the heat on lawmakers who are hesitating on voting for a tax bill because they're worried about upsetting an interest group.
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And concentrated pain in one interest group can lead to destabilizing forces that most governments want to prevent—just ask U.S. farmers caught in the current skirmish.
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The Alliance for Automobile Manufacturers, a Washington-based interest group that represents auto companies on policy issues, assailed the potential tariffs as harmful to the American economy.
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In decrying contemporary hyperpartisanship, we must not over-romanticize the old interest-group politics, in which party leaders worked out bargains among competing interests behind closed doors.
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Public Knowledge, a consumer interest group, quickly called out Pai's "history of attacking consumer protections," and urged him to focus on driving down prices and expanding choices.
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Democracy is the art of wealth redistribution, the bureaucracy is an interest group and benefit/cost analyses can be shaped to support virtually any outcome preferred politically.
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And no interest group has more clout or more money in a Democratic primary than the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA).
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Gene Kimmelman, CEO of Public Knowledge, a public interest group dealing with market competition issues, said it would give AT&T an unfair advantage over content providers.
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What's problematic is that they launched into this without any groundwork: no pre-existing consensus on the broad outlines of the plan, no interest group backing, etc.
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Like Mr. Netanyahu, he's willing to see the justice system — for which he just became responsible — not as a moral force but as a competing interest group.
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Julie Linton, who co-chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics' Immigrant Health Special Interest Group, told the lawmakers that family separation only added to the children's trauma.
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Sanders's view of the political system is idealistic, his ideas are unbounded by pragmatic concerns and interest group objections, and his calls for political revolution are thrilling.
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These two drivers — the diversification and specialization of the interest group universe and policy incentives — combined with larger social trends to redefine women's issues as feminist issues.
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Moreover, the prosecutors in her case have previously made mistakes, including erroneously accusing Butina of offering sex in exchange for a position in a special interest group.
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This impression was reenforced when Trump made a well-received campaign stop at a Boeing plant in South Carolina, since Boeing is the bank's main interest group backer.
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But he has had a spotty voting record when it comes to protecting the environment, according to a scorecard from the special interest group League of Conservation Voters.
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"In the current case the agency got it right," Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement after oral arguments.
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And some of these channels will, in fusion with elite networks of the kind Bannon is building, form an international interest group united by, well, opposition to internationalism.
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The association that sets the wireless tech standard, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), announced it has officially codified Bluetooth 5, the next version of the Bluetooth specification.
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It was set up as a so-called Economic Interest Group, with 50 percent of the funding coming from France's Aerospatiale and 50 percent from Germany's Deutsche Airbus.
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For one, the party and interest group apparatus remained solidly behind her the whole way through — there was no mass defection to Sanders when she stumbled early on.
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"There's nothing about this massive merger that serves the public interest," Craig Aaron, president and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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"The original intent of revising these gift rules came from Obama's executive order [involving conflicts of interest]," said Craig Holman, a lobbyist at public interest group Public Citizen.
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Environmentalism, once a bipartisan movement with tremendous political power to pass sweeping legislation with almost no organized opposition, is now a mere interest group in the Democratic Party.
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The next version of the Bluetooth standard is called Bluetooth 5, and will be formally announced next week, Bluetooth Special Interest Group executive director Mark Powell has revealed.
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There's a corollary there when we talk about identity politics — the assumption that the white male is at the center, and everyone outside is a special interest group.
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A 2015 study from the interest group AARP asked consumers over the age of 50 to sport a wearable for six weeks and report back on their experiences.
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The Massachusetts chapter of the abortion-rights group NARAL appears to be the first interest group to request disclosures of sexual harassment, reports the Boston Globe's Stephanie Ebbert.
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This type of throw-everything-at-the-wall, see-what-sticks flurry happens when an interest group sounds the alarm that its protected profits might be at risk.
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Theodore J. Lowi, a venerated political scientist who challenged conventional scholarship on presidential power and identified the emergence of what he called "interest-group liberalism," died on Feb.
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Free Press, a public-interest group that supports net neutrality, found that total investment by publicly traded broadband companies increased 5.3 percent between 2013-14 and 2015-16.
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But the power that law enforcement officers have as an interest group isn't nearly as great as the power they have as cultural heroes to many other Americans.
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Open internet advocates hope to see an even greater uprising now, in defense of those safeguards, said Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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There are companies that are like a subset of Reddit, but the kind of massive interest group for everything plus this nebulous global community connection, I've not seen elsewhere.
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"This was a move to benefit one firm, namely Sinclair, and one political agenda, namely Trump's," said Todd O'Boyle, program director at DC-based public interest group Common Cause.
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LEDE: The Federal Communications Commission is about to vote on its reforms to the market for television set-top boxes after months of interest group lobbying and congressional cajoling.
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Putting that information together is already an immediate goal for some groups, like the Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, she says.
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Matt David, the group's chief strategist, dismissed Club for Growth as a "special interest group run by a bunch of Washington, DC hacks and has-beens," in a statement.
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The Affordable Care Act itself was, like any piece of complicated legislation, itself a compromise measure reflecting a number of different interest group, ideological, public opinion, and pragmatic imperatives.
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Not coincidentally, many of the deals are deeply transactional — represented a least common denominator nexus of interest group demands rather than a high-minded, principles-based effort at reform.
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To paraphrase President Reagan: Subsidies are an approximation of eternal life on earth, in that they are created by interest group pressures and they intensify those pressures as well.
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Simultaneously, a public interest group called Democracy Forward, filed suit under FOIA over the secrecy of the administration's appointees to all its so called regulatory reform task force panels.
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That's so the appropriate recipient of the funds is the U.S. Treasury rather than some firm, industry or interest group that executive branch officials happen to view with favor.
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"Commissioner O'Rielly advocated for the reelection of President Trump in his official capacity as FCC Commissioner," OSC official Erica Hamrick wrote in a letter to a public interest group.
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Many pro-life and evangelical interest group leaders, who are less convinced than many of their voters that Trump is reliable on their issues, will also fight for Cruz.
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So an unpopular bill that didn't do what Republicans promised their bill would do passed in the face of interest group opposition only after being made even more extreme.
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During Clinton's 2016 primary campaign against Bernie Sanders, Clinton ran clearly to the left on a range of domestic issues to lock down interest group support in her favor.
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Presidents have a number of factors that they consider when making decisions, from the interests of their party to the interest group pressure that they face on any given problem.
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The agreements for Ms. McDougal's and Ms. Clifford's silence formed the basis of complaints by the public interest group Common Cause to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission.
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The need for bipartisanship or interest group buy-in — or both — was just taken for granted by everyone, even the House Progressive Caucus types who pushed the public option hardest.
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Public Knowledge, a prominent D.C.-based public interest group that works tech and telecom issues, announced Monday that the group's chief lobbyist Chris Lewis is taking the helm as CEO.
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The fast food chain said on Wednesday that it is partnering with AARP, a nonprofit interest group for aging Americans, to help attract workers who are aged fifty or above.
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Making it easy to change the name of the group also made it easy to take a general-interest group like, uh, "WHO FARTED," and turn it into conservative stronghold.
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And, you know, I'm going to throw my shoulders behind folks who want to actually solve problems instead of just, you know, getting a high score from an interest group.
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Snapchat has given observers another reason to suspect it might be working on hardware – the social network company joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) according to the Financial Times.
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"The case against net neutrality and Title II is weak, and it should be settled by now," said Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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The analysis, which was not funded by a private interest group or company, showed that AA helps cut health care costs for people with AUD by approximately $10,000 a person.
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That's what Harry Truman proposed, but interest group politics eventually led Medicare to be defined down to a seniors-only program in order to secure passage in the early 1960s.
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Here's a look at what the public interest group found: Of the crayons tested, one, a green Playskool crayon, tested positive for trace amounts of tremolite, a form of asbestos.
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It quickly became clear, for instance, that the hotel lobby, a powerful interest group in a city that relies on tourism, would have a big say in any final regulations.
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"He's never met a mega-merger he didn't like or a public safeguard he didn't try to undermine," said Matt Wood, policy director at Free Press, a consumer interest group.
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On the right and left, candidates and activists emphasize their identity as adherents to a party or ideology or interest group rather than devotion to our shared identity as Americans.
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The interest group Common Cause was involved in a case concerning gerrymandering in North Carolina and subpoenaed the documents hoping to get a better understanding of Hofeller's work in that area.
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More than 20 states sued the government to stop the repeal, as did the public-interest group Free Press and the think tank Open Technology Institute and Firefox browser maker Mozilla.
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Much of the public is now seeing them as an "interest group which seeks to maximize their own interest", said Kim Tai-gi, an economics professor at Dankook University in Seoul.
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In 2005, federal prosecutors said Satterfield provided classified national security secrets to a top lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful special interest group known simply as AIPAC.
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Earlier in the case, prosecutors claimed she had tried to exchange sex for a position at a special interest group and that her time at American University was just a cover.
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Earlier in the case, prosecutors claimed she had tried to exchange sex for a position at a special interest group and that her time at American University was just a cover.
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But this blossoming of political activism might also make it harder to dispel the notion that scientists are just another special interest group, fighting for their own share of the pie.
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In a blog post, Candace Clement, internet campaign director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, lambasted House Republicans for using the appropriations process to advance their anti-consumer agenda.
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Republican Senator John Thune said on Monday that Democrats were more interested in pleasing a what he called a special interest group, referring to Planned Parenthood, than in acting on Zika.
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Now, a White House-backed special interest group has a launched a million-dollar smear campaign against Heller who's already in a sticky situation because he's up for reelection next year.
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AARP — a special interest group dedicated to older Americans — said it is "concerned about proposed cuts to programs important to seniors" in Trump's budget despite his efforts to address drug prices.
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"We're glad that the FCC continues to raise concerns about these companies' self-dealing exemptions," Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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"It's amazing that the top priority of the Trump administration is taking away people's privacy protections," Craig Aaron, President and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, told Motherboard.
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The appeals court "used shameful sophistry and sleight of hand to effectively deny millions of Californians their constitutional right to bear firearms in public for self-defence", the interest group groused.
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Republican Senator John Thune, referring to Planned Parenthood, charged on Monday that Democrats were more interested in pleasing a what he called a special interest group than in acting on Zika.
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The political left has developed a huge blind spot resulting from their desire to cultivate American Muslims as a special interest group firmly ensconced in the Democratic Party's left hip pocket.
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Presidential expressions of betrayal (of party, of country or of the president) can attract big donor and allied interest group support for primary challenges, regardless of whether the president personally intervenes.
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GROUP ACCUSES FCC OF INFRINGING ON FREE SPEECH: A public interest group is accusing the Federal Communications Commission of trying to stifle free speech in the debate over net neutrality regulations.
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"This is a sweeping attack by politicians on the concept of independent, expert regulatory decision-making," Todd O'Boyle, program director at Common Cause, a DC-based public interest group, told Motherboard.
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What's even more striking is how little interest group buy-in seemed to matter after the 2016 election when Republicans set about trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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This is, for starters, the longtime passion of National Nurses United, far and away the most influential interest group to actually back Sanders and an institutional pillar of his ongoing work.
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But what all these examples show is that the boundary between source (or interest group) and journalist can be shaped, if not erased, in ways that threaten to hamper candid reporting.
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"The chances that he will view Russia with Exxon Mobil DNA are close to 100 percent," said Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, a public interest group based in Washington.
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In fact, a comprehensive analysis of publicly traded internet service providers by Free Press, a public interest group, found that investment was up about 5 percent since those rules were enacted.
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"I believe the administration understands how important of an issue this is to many farmers across the country," said Andrew Walmsley, a director at the American Farm Bureau, an interest group.
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Today, however, artists are just one cultural interest group among musicians, filmmakers, soundstages, and startups in one of the world's hype capitals — while the area remains one of the city's poorest.
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ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC: I&aposve never recall a previous president outsourcing at least the initial selection process to an outside interest group the way this president has to the Federalist Society. SEN.
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Now, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is adding the ability for gadgets to know exactly what direction a signal is coming from, not just its distance, to make that measurement more exact.
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" Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said that by voting against the FCC's proposed rate caps, Pai and O'Rielly are "abdicating their moral and statutory responsibility.
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"It's good that lawmakers are holding these companies to their promises about broadband speeds and quality of service," said Tim Karr, senior campaign director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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The Sugar Reform Act is a step in the right direction, removing some of the most intrusive government intervention in the marketplace ever concocted by a special interest group – the sugar lobby.
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In emails that were displayed in court, for instance, the speaker beseeched William Brooke, then a senior figure in the Business Council of Alabama, an interest group, to help him find work.
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) gave the green light to Bluetooth 5 this week, a new spec that promises some pretty radicular performance enhancements over its predecessor, according to the organization.
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Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain would ultimately leave little doubt about their contempt for the interest-group politics that would come to dominate their party, even after bowing to it at times.
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"We simply cannot risk allowing Huawei — and by extension the Chinese government — having back-door access to our telecommunications networks," said Ian Prior, a spokesman for 5G Action Now, an interest group.
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"Like most of these tie-ups, this is an agreement that investment bankers might love but internet users don't need," said Matt Wood, a policy director at consumer interest group Free Press.
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If he doesn't lead on open primaries and other process issues, "Team Bernie" risks becoming just another ideological interest group fighting to enact its agenda within a frozen and disconnected DC environment.
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"Comey has definitely been bad on human-rights issues," said Amie Stepanovich, the U.S. policy manager for Access Now, a public-interest group that advocates for surveillance reform in the nation's capital.
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Whatever the outcome of the NRA investigation, it seems plausible that if Russian plutocrats were seeking to influence one US interest group, they may have approached other groups and individuals as well.
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But here's the thing: the liver is already a natural detoxifier, explains Elizabeth Goacher, PA-C, MHS, physician assistant at Duke University and the chair-elect of the Hepatology Associates special interest group.
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If an interest group normally allied with a politician is lobbying heavily against a bill, that's a pretty big cost the politician would have to shoulder if she chose to vote for it.
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Ai-Jen Poo: Our policy discourse really treats women as a special interest group, but the reality is that women are more than half of the electorate, more than half of college graduates.
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"The first thing in raising money from a special interest group is convincing them that you're going to be their champion," says Tyson Slocum, director of the Clean Energy program at Public Citizen.
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Now that those common cultural values have been dissolved by the acids of academic fashion and interest-group politics it is much easier to abandon public life entirely and concentrate on making money.
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They are a maple syrup industry-devoted special interest group in charge of producing around three quarters of the world's maple syrup, which means that they probably want you to like maple syrup.
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Bowman, retired after revelations of what the complaint called an "irregular" relationship with Coca-Cola and the nonprofit corporate interest group set up by Coca-Cola called the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI).
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It can play out like this: One interest group seeks help from their friends in Congress because they want the law changed so that they can pay less for a product they need.
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Instead of attacking Sanders for having dreams too great, the former first lady should share with the nation the dreams she has, without fear or favor about which interest group might be offended.
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" John Bergmayer, senior counsel at Public Knowledge, a public interest group, said: "The allegations in this complaint demonstrate how difficult it can be for law enforcement to monitor the behavior of large companies.
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"Only now that it falls apart do we see the damage Sinclair was doing to its own ambitions with its approach," said Craig Aaron, the CEO of the public interest group Free Press.
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Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush went along, partly because the targeted beneficiaries were sympathetic, partly because of unexpected interest group support for the expansions, and partly to avoid a showdown with Congress.
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Since resigning, Leibowitz has been working as a private practice lawyer frequently representing Big Telecom clients including Comcast and sits as co-chair for the 21st Century Privacy Coalition—a telecom interest group.
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Any big tax reform is subject to both interest group politics (which is why the National Retail Federation is running the ad) and to cheap shots (which is the content of the ad).
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At present, liberalism's besetting political weakness is its inability to offer an overarching vision of the public interest instead of just peddling a grab bag of specific benefits for specific interest-group constituencies.
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That's because of rules that allow foundations, donor-advised funds, and individuals to write these gifts off under the name of "philanthropy" — even though the donations are routed by a Democratic interest group.
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Orlando was a call to action that we have reached a point in U.S. history where we must recognize that the safety of our nation must take precedence over every interest group concern.
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Even when agencies collect fees, Congress has often directed that the revenues be used to benefit some special interest group rather than reimburse the Treasury for all the money spent managing the lands.
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This deprives committee members of the opportunity to huddle and fashion compromises that might not please interest group representatives who are usually the only members of the public who show up at markups.
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Thus, when he sat down with grieving survivors of Parkland and other shootings, he was burdened like any other politician who tries to make common cause with ties to a special interest group.
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A new liberal interest group, Demand Justice, plans to spend as much as $5 million to push Democrats to oppose Kavanaugh, and try to persuade Republicans Collins and Murkowski to do the same.
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On foreign policy, where there is little in the way of interest group pressure, she did not — choosing instead to praise Henry Kissinger and hit Sanders from the right on Iran and Cuba.
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"This resolution is a vote for big corporate profits over the rights and civil liberties of average people," Nathan White, senior legislative manager at the public interest group Access Now, said in a statement.
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The consolidation of Republican power in Washington was supposed to create huge dividends for every kind of interest group by eliminating legislative gridlock and brinkmanship and giving a single party power to set policy.
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A recent review of nearly 30 studies from the Cochrane Collaboration nonprofit public interest group found that menu labeling helped people reduce calories by about 50 calories per meal, on average, according to CSPI.
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"Bluetooth was designed from the beginning to be very resilient to spectrum congestion," says Jim Katsandres, a representative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the organisation that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards.
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"Political parties and policymakers can no longer ignore the central role the internet plays in our democracy," Craig Aaron, president and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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And in each case, the governing coalition was able to design extensive policies that navigated the shoals of public opinion and interest group opposition while producing important structural changes in the American political system.
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A public interest group said this week that it had found toxic substances in a number of school supplies, including asbestos in a Playskool crayon and another carcinogen, benzene, in a dry-erase marker.
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A proposal to curb that policy in September set off the Heung Yee Kuk, an official rural interest group: It threatened to retaliate by blocking all government projects throughout the vast New Territories area.
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Later Thursday morning, he tweeted his support for the leaders of the National Rifle Association, the gun interest group that has often comes under intense scrutiny for its efforts to resist tighter gun laws.
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Politicians, media personalities and interest group leaders on the right encouraged these sentiments but channeled them into opposition to Democratic economic priorities such as the Affordable Care Act by activating broader symbolic conservative predispositions.
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Washington (CNN)A key GOP interest group is set to run a new television ad calling on New Hampshire voters to re-elect their Republican senator as a check and balance for the White House.
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Washington (CNN)An interest group lobbying for the legalization of medical marijuana is suing one of Florida's largest counties after reports emerged that their favored constitutional amendment was nowhere to be found on some ballots.
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Instead, Clinton moved swiftly to address key interest group concerns — turning against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the excise tax on high-value health insurance plans — and locked down early endorsements from key labor unions.
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In fact, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an international coalition with members from major tech manufacturers like Nokia and Intel, said that while it supports expanding unlicensed spectrum, it isn't receiving complaints from its members yet.
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The Strickland campaign has tried to fight back — and has portrayed the Kochs as a special interest group that dishonestly distorts Strickland's governing record — but the raw numbers show that Strickland has been comprehensively outgunned.
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Because if the 215 election has made anything clear, it's that older rural whites are now acting like an interest group, who will vote for any party that even pays lip service to their desires.
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That's because we live in a world that veered off a sexist cliff last November — one in which women are labeled as both a special-interest group and a group that doesn't merit special interest.
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There are coloring books for every imaginable interest group, including "Game of Thrones" and "Harry Potter" ones, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump versions, and, in a new and surprisingly durable trend, "sweary" coloring books.
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Strict vegetarians and vegans may not be growing as an interest group, but Americans are warming to the idea that they should be eating more plants—not just for the environment, but their own health.
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For every tax "deduction" or "loophole" in our geometrically expanding tax code and code of regulations, there exists a leviathan and fanatical public interest group fighting to preserve their advantaged tax deduction or favored status.
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Transition officials have been required to sign ethical pledges, banned from advising on issues they have lobbied on in the past, and the Obama transition team even posted interest group comments on a public website.
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"Senate inaction and political gamesmanship should never have cost Commissioner Rosenworcel her seat at the FCC," Todd O'Boyle, Program Director for Media and Democracy at Common Cause, a DC-based public interest group, told Motherboard.
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One critic of the deal, Gene Kimmelman, president of Public Knowledge, the nonprofit public interest group, said top brass in the Justice Department's antitrust division do not generally overrule the staff but they occasionally do.
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The most recent of these works is a field experiment in which an interest group solicited meetings with congressional offices and revealed to some of these offices that potential donors would be at the meeting.
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" Mr. Carmichael, whose resistance to the raises had made him a key antagonist for the striking teachers, insisted on Tuesday that he did not want to pass anything "just to appease a special-interest group.
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Politicians on both sides of the aisle should be promoting an enhanced enforcement budget as a way of achieving the holy grail of revenue neutrality without offending any special interest group except, perhaps, tax scofflaws.
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But the irony now is that, while Ms. Pelosi is a down-the-line progressive, she is hardly representative of the Sanders left on economic issues, or of the interest-group enforcers of cultural liberalism.
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"No special interest group, no political agenda is more critical than timely passage of legislation to effectively address the gun violence issues that are rampant in our country," the March for Our Lives website states.
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"It automatically excludes the LGBTQ+ population," says Dr. Mark Leondires, a reproductive endocrinologist who founded the resource Gay Parents To Be and co-founded of the American Society For Reproductive Medicine's LGBTQ Special Interest Group.
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PUBLIC INTEREST GROUP URGES FCC CRACKDOWN ON CABLE: Advocacy group Public Knowledge filed a complaint on Thursday against Comcast, AT&T and Cablevision urging the FCC to implement its cable privacy rules against the providers.
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Explanations range from the desire to cut federal deficits to the view that researchers are just another interest group seeking funding for their pet programs, or even anti-elite attitudes among Republican legislators and constituencies.
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Peter is an active member of the speech research community where he chairs SynSIG, the global speech synthesis special interest group in addition to being a reviewer of all leading journals and conferences in his field.
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"Cost savings to the company don't necessarily translate to cost savings to the customer unless the company has competition that forces them to offer it," said John Bergmayer, staff attorney at public-interest group Public Knowledge.
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We had a balanced budget four years in a row, had to take on every interest group in Washington — every single one of them — and we paid down a half a trillion of the national debt.
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So then, what happens to social cohesiveness when every interest group with a drum to bang works out how to effectively rechannel the power of platform tech to organize and protest — and/or influence and subvert?
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As an interest group basically built around trespassing, they understandably like to keep a low profile, but they were happy to give some semi-vague recommendations when we asked for their three favorite buildings in Victoria.
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Additional funding of liberal judicial groups might help, but it's really a question of emphasis: Republicans place judges at the center of their political framework, while for Democrats, it's just another interest group on the periphery.
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If breaches can happen to a Fortune 100 company such as Target or major defense contractor such as Booz Allen Hamilton, it could certainly happen with a campaign consultant, political campaign or third-party interest group.
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By the time of its passage in 2002, it included limits on party fundraising, restrictions on interest group advertising and a complex system of providing additional campaign funds for candidates who ran against self-financing millionaires.
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Rodriguez raises the H-2A Improvement Act to try to raise a larger concern about Sanders and immigration, but what it really illustrates is a larger point about interest group politics and the limits of ideology.
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But trying to recreate the pointedly political Women's March will serve only to reinforce the narrative from skeptical conservatives that scientists are an interest group and politicize their data, research and findings for their own ends.
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Ip is one of the very few pro-Beijing politicians who has been able to win a seat in the legislature in general elections, instead of being named by an industry or other special interest group.
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So far, R.G.G.I., as it known for short, has helped reduce emissions from power plants in the region by 40 percent between 2008 and 2016, according to the Acadia Center, a research and public interest group.
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The power of the NRA within Congress has become the prime example of how campaign donations, interest group politics and partisanship converge to prevent elected officials from dealing with one of the major issues of our time.
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The figure below shows that since the courts removed limits on independent expenditures (note that Super PACs were not active for the full 2010 cycle), interest group spending is up, while party spending has remained relatively flat.
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So, please, when you see something broken in society, dare to stand up and fix it, whether it be through advocating for progressive legislation, attending protests and rallies or volunteering for an interest group or political campaign.
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Middle-class workers, long the backbone of our aspirational society, are not simply a special interest group whose needs can be met with set asides and quotas, tax breaks, earmarks, or other special treatment from the government.
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The fight for women's equality has always been a fight to show that women's rights are human rights, that we are not a special interest group for consideration once important matters of state have been seen to.
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The National Council on La Raza, a fairly establishment, DC-based Latino interest group, is often characterized in conservative circles as the face of Latino radicalism (probably because of the "La Raza" — "the race" — in the name).
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A senator can even take a position in favor of some sweeping piece of legislation and then quietly reassure interest group opponents that everyone knows this isn't getting 21988 votes and really just represents an opening bid.
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He is a former two-term chair of the 2,000-member Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Complexity Theory and a former two-term editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM.
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Giuliani is in charge of the over-all defense effort, and Sekulow, the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative public-interest group founded by Pat Robertson, is his second-in-command.
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"I agree that this disruption to [the Electronic Comment Filing System] by outside parties was a very serious matter," Pai wrote in a letter dated June 28503, that was posted by a public interest group on Monday.
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This small special interest group is lobbying to change the point of obligation to anyone but them, but shifting the point of obligation is the fastest route to destroying the RFS program without an act of Congress.
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The US electoral system accords each voter equal weight (within a geographical area), but our system of private lobbying, interest group participation, and financing campaigns with private donations gives wealthy citizens great influence over our political system.
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In small-town America, now synonymous with Republican-majority America, any Democratic voter gets asked why Democrats are intent on taking away American guns, jobs and individualism, and replacing them with handouts to every peeved interest group.
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The opponents I'm talking about include almost every major health care interest group: the lobbying groups for doctors, nurses and hospitals as well as advocates for patients with cancer, diabetes, lung disease, heart disease or birth defects.
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After an oversight hearing the Natural Resources Committee held with experts and the Forest Service last month, it became clear that only one special interest group will benefit from an Alaska Roadless Rule exemption: the timber industry.
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Americans for Prosperity, an interest group backed by the billionaire Koch Brothers, also said it would launch a seven-figure ad buy in several states Trump carried which have Democratic senators up for re-election this year.
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The matter highlights potential ethics concerns raised by Trump's decision not to divest himself from his businesses, said Larry Noble, head of the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington-based public interest group that studies issues of democracy.
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Such talk bears a striking resemblance to the fierce debates Democrats engaged in 30 years ago when they suffered repeated White House losses and many party moderates concluded that they were too captive to interest-group politics.
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"I agree that this disruption to [the Electronic Comment Filing System] by outside parties was a very serious matter," Pai wrote in a letter dated June 85033, that was posted by a public interest group on Monday.
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In response to teachers who reported a lack of resources and preparation, Leyden curated a set of LGBTQ+ resources and took on the role of Curriculum Chair for the National Art Education Association's (NAEA) LGBTQ+ Interest Group.
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Instead of arguing about the goals or inclusiveness of the Women's March or the general strike – as many of us have over the past months – or planning interest-group event after interest-group event (the Scientist's March, for instance), we should all join Black Lives Matter, find our local chapters, and work to revitalize its visionary protests, which serve not only what scholar Robin D. G. Kelley has called the "freedom dreams" of Black America, but the hopes of all of us that someday, somehow, the government will work to better our lives.
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Once enjoyed and developed for niche techie and gaming audiences, brands have quickly realized VR's limitless potential, and, as a result, every interest group from interior design to makeup to apparel is jumping on the immersive content bandwagon.
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"This is a good moment to take note of who's standing up for the public and who's auditioning to be a Comcast lobbyist," Craig Aaron, CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press Action Fund, told Motherboard.
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"Donald Trump said he was going to drain the swamp, but it didn't take long for the swamp to drain him," Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, a public interest group, said in a statement.
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At the same time, the bureaucracy is an interest group with both budget and ideological incentives to expand its regulatory authority; accordingly, regulations are likely to be too stringent unless there is a requirement that Congress approve them.
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But security researchers say that the big reason Bluetooth bugs come up has more to do with sheer scale of the written standard—development of which is facilitated by the consortium known as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
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"High-tech has no regulator so there's a huge policy gap" said Gene Kimmelman, CEO of consumer interest group Public Knowledge and former DOJ official under the Obama administration, who expects greater antitrust scrutiny of tech company moves.
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"The timing of today's announcement likely had nothing to do with the timing for announcing the monstrous AT&T/Time Warner merger proposal last month," said Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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"She has a tremendous record of public service and has focused attention to the needs of consumers and vulnerable populations," said Gene Kimmelman, president of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit public interest group that supports the cable box proposal.
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"The party started looking at people through interest group coalitions, and we thought, 'If we talk to them all in different ways, that will be enough to cobble together an election coalition,' " Representative Ruben Gallego of Arizona says.
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But the fact that DREAMers have had so much power in shaping the message of the immigrant rights movement gets to the other reason they're so politically compelling: They are a well-resourced and well-organized interest group.
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"The FCC should ignore lobbyist calls to protect their bottom lines, as they seek to shut down competition and profit from our private lives," Matt Wood, policy directory at DC-based public interest group Free Press, told Motherboard.
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Limiting the power of an interest group with an agenda antithetical to the beliefs of most American's should be a priority, especially one that is willing to spend millions of dollars to wield outside influence in our elections.
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The House Ways and Means Committee added the lower cap on mortgage interest deductions as a last-minute revenue raiser and it drew strong opposition from the National Association of Home Builders, a powerful special interest group. Sen.
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"The problem in Washington, besides every piece of legislation having its own special interest group, is that bills are purposely written to be complicated," said Michael Dubke, who briefly served as White House communications director under Mr. Trump.
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"The party started looking at people through interest group coalitions, and we thought, 'If we talk to them all in different ways, that will be enough to cobble together an election coalition,'" said Representative Ruben Gallego of Arizona.
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Gus Rossi is global policy director at Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group that is involved in intellectual property law, competition and choice in the digital marketplace, and an open standards/end-to-end internet.
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"There is a lack of trust now with how Facebook treats user data, and they have to be very careful knowing that that concern is there," said Charlotte Slaiman, senior policy counsel for public interest group Public Knowledge.
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"These facilities are no place for a child, even a well child," said Marsha Griffin, a pediatrician on the Texas-Mexico border and the co-chairwoman of the American Academy of Pediatrics's special interest group on immigrant health.
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The 2018 election outcome demonstrated that the left has regained momentum and enthusiasm, but the interest group elite — the prime movers of the regressive distribution of income described by Drutman, Grossmann and LaPira — have demonstrated exceptional staying power.
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"We find that the two political parties primarily represent different interest group sectors, rather than public classes, and that neither party consistently favors the views of the affluent over those of the middle class," Grossmann and Isaac conclude.
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Despite the number of party and interest group PACs getting involved in open-seat primaries remaining relatively constant since 2006 for both parties, interest groups have begun to significantly outspend the party organizations since the advent of Super PACs.
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Public interest group Public Citizen, which also published a recent report on coal leasing program loopholes, said the new rule will prevent companies from selling coal to affiliate companies at a lower price in order to pay smaller royalties.
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But one way of reading the election results is that Donald Trump, through these appeals, was able to get white voters to act as an interest group, but that you weren't able to get women to do the same.
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"Mignon Clyburn is fast achieving heroic status, her voice ringing out in defense of consumer and citizen rights," said former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who now serves as a special adviser at DC-based public interest group Common Cause.
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Michael Copps, a former Democratic commissioner now a special adviser with the public interest group Common Cause, which supports several of Wheeler's initiatives, said that he hoped the chairman would push forward despite the controversies generated by the proposals.
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Sixty percent of respondents said they support "Democrats in Congress conducting investigations into senior officials in the Trump administration," according to the poll, which was given exclusively to The Hill by Restore Public Trust, a Democrat-linked interest group.
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While that may have made sense to lawmakers with the specter of German U-boats fresh in their memories, the Jones Act's only effect today is that it drives up prices for consumers and protects a special interest group.
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"This case raises obvious concerns about whether AT&T would have the incentive and ability to harm consumers if it were permitted to acquire Time Warner," said John Bergmayer, senior counsel at DC-based public interest group Public Knowledge.
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"The collapse of the merger is great news for dozens of local communities that will be spared Sinclair's slanted coverage and ridiculous must-runs," Craig Aaron, the CEO of the public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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"While the cap was causing serious harm to the economy, it also created winners among people who were able to access credit — a special interest group that was able to organize itself in support of the law," Ashbourne explained.
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"Trump's mix of irresponsible deregulatory policies, coupled with his embrace of utter falsehoods and ignorance about how the internet works, are alarming to say the least," said Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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"It took a decade to win the fight for net neutrality, and people will not sit by silently when politicians threaten to take it away," said Craig Aaron, President and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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He doesn't have a lot of Congressional allies; he doesn't have a lot of interest group organizations aligned with him; his institutional ties within the Democratic Party are incredibly tenuous because he hasn't been a member of the party.
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But an exception was his March speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful hawkish pro-Israel interest group, where he read a prepared speech that reiterated all major aspects of Republican orthodoxy on Israel.
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Instead, he tried to rush through legislation in a single week that the Heritage Foundation, the Koch brothers, the AARP, the American Medical Association — basically every think tank and interest group on either side of the aisle — vehemently opposed.
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Stone, a political strategist and outspoken Trump supporter, and Martin, the president of conservative interest group Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, wrote in a piece published Tuesday in Breitbart News that the party plans to take the nomination from Trump.
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"The financing cost of the new reactors alone will account for over 25 percent of a typical customer's bill by 2020," said Tom Clements, director of Savannah River Site Watch, a public interest group monitoring energy and nuclear issues.
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"Ajit Pai has been on the wrong side of just about every major issue that has come before the FCC during his tenure," Craig Aaron, President and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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Throughout the trials of the past decade, he has managed to hold onto the Palace Theatre, but is now embroiled in an endless back and forth with a special interest group who are rallying to save the building from decay.
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For decades, the Export-Import Bank limped along at the margins of American politics, a rightfully obscure program regarded as neither particularly interesting nor important but sustained by and subject to the banal to-and-fro of interest group politics.
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But time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth, which really comes down to, you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought.
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The decision to remove CFO Koos Timmermans, 58, comes after criticism of the bank by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and after shareholder interest group VEB called for a more thorough vetting of CEO Ralph Hamers' role in the affair.
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On the question of who should be involved in identifying and establishing suitable governance frameworks for robotics and AI, the committee notes witnesses emphasizing inclusivity across a broad range of interest group as key to developing an effective oversight regime.
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But time and time again, by innuendo, by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth, which really comes down to — you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought.
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"Sinclair has long evaded the FCC rules it's now trying to completely erase with the help of the Trump FCC under Chairman Pai," Craig Aaron, President and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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"Ajit Pai has been on the wrong side of just about every major issue that has come before the FCC during his tenure," Craig Aaron, President and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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In addition to his critical outburst, Young accused Jayapal of mimicking talking points from an outside special interest group -- questioning the motives behind her opposition to his amendment, which aims to give more power to states to determine land management.
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Sensing an opportunity to use the Miller subpoena battle to take a bigger swing at Mueller, a non-profit conservative interest group, the National Legal and Policy Center, took up the cause and is helping to cover Miller's legal fees.
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"I know developers who sat in my office and told me they didn't build a life-saving feature because they didn't know if it would be regulated or not," said Morgan Reed, president of an app developers' interest group called ACT.
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I wrote recently about the manipulation of benefit/cost analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and more generally about the adverse implications of the evolution of the federal bureaucracy into an interest group driven by both budget and ideological imperatives.
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The lawsuit by Ms. Clifford adds weight to allegations in a separate legal complaint brought by Common Cause, a public interest group that has asked the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the $130,000 payment by Mr. Cohen.
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In a complaint to the OSC, the public interest group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) argued that this was a violation of the Hatch Act, a law that's intended to prevent public officials from engaging in partisan politics.
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And critically, while the part of this plan that calls for higher taxes on the rich guarantees well-funded GOP opposition, these ideas won't provoke the kind of interest group infighting that the complexities of health policy almost certainly guarantee.
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"This is part of a pattern with this president of really doing everything he can to disgrace the office of the presidency by promoting his own private business interests," said Stephen Spaulding, a lawyer with the public interest group Common Cause.
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Campaign contributions, lobbying, the revolving door of industry insiders working in government, interest group influence over regulators and even think tanks — all of these features of our current political system skew policy making to favor the wealthy and entrenched economic interests.
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"We have a grave situation because unfortunately those who govern this country have bet on foreign production and imports over the nation's farmers," said Oscar Guiterrez, president of Farming Dignity, an agricultural interest group that joined the strike in October.
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A study (commissioned by a hospital interest group, so caveat emptor) found that the proposal would direct about 40 million people into the public plan, lower than some other public option plans and far lower than Medicare-for-all plans.
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While Sussex Police have ruled out the Gatwick drone incident being related to a campaign or interest-group, earlier this month an environmental group attempted to shut down Heathrow using toy drones flown at head height in the legal restriction zone.
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"This madcap threat, if pursued, would be a blatant and unacceptable intervention in the decisions of an independent agency," former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who serves as a special advisor to public interest group Common Cause, said in a statement.
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Doing so is only going to increase political opposition to your plan — no tax reform, no matter how cleverly designed, can fail to offend a powerful interest group or two — and make it less likely that the project will get done.
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All these changes sound like symptoms that Julie Linton, co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Immigrant Health Special Interest Group, would expect to see in kids who'd been through the trauma of prolonged detention and separation from their parents.
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On October 25, Taylor Moss, the organizing director of the North Carolina chapter of the Public Research Interest Group, handled a cotton candy machine on the lawn of the Chapel of the Cross church, a voting precinct in downtown Chapel Hill.
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Compared to Bluetooth 4.2, Bluetooth 5.0 has four times the range, two times the speed and eight times the broadcast message capacity, according to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the body that develops, licenses and helps set standards for the wireless protocol.
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For the most part, the political system — from voting to journalism to policymaking to congressional debate to interest group organizing — is built around the idea that the signals sent by the central players are meaningful, even if the rhetoric is often slippery.
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At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.
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When in its common low-energy format, Bluetooth connections should be able to reach up to twice the speeds and up to four times the distance of what they can today, according to Bluetooth SIG, the special interest group that oversees the standard.
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The key Republican interest group is throwing money behind an ad backing Ayotte in New Hampshire, telling voters they must send her back to Washington to act as a check on the White House -- with the clear implication that Clinton will be president.
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Even as Cruz tries to lock up voters in the crucial early voting state, he's been put on the defensive thanks to a powerful interest group following him everywhere he goes and rivals quick to attack his opposition to the popular subsidy.
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"We don't always agree with Chairman Thune on a number of issues so, understanding that, I think he's been good to work with given our disagreement on a number of issues," said Chris Lewis, a vice president at public interest group Public Knowledge.
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Clinton's Benghazi role rather than her record on gun rights is an unusual tactic for the interest group, but it provides a desperately needed television presence on behalf of the Trump campaign, which spent nothing in June in battleground states while Mrs.
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Because the data in this study comes largely from studies in China, it may be hard to draw conclusions for migrant groups from other countries, said Dr. Julie Linton, co-chair of American Academy of Pediatrics Special Interest Group on Immigrant Health.
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"What a brazen act of hypocrisy that the financial services lobby is bringing a lawsuit to block consumers from having their day in court," said Amanda Werner, who advocates for the rule on behalf of the consumer interest group Americans for Financial Reform.
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One way for AT&T to fund the interest payments on this huge pile of debt (forget about reducing the balance) would be to raise prices for consumers, according to S. Derek Turner, research director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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" Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who serves as a special advisor to DC-based public interest group Common Cause, called the Lifeline expansion "a giant leap forward" that will help "extend the awesome power of the internet to those who need it most.
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Gaurav Laroia, policy counsel at DC-based public interest group Free Press, praised the FCC's privacy proposal as a necessary safeguard against industry abuses, such as Verizon's secret tracking of customers, which recently earned the telecom giant a $1.3 million FCC fine.
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Decriminalizing unauthorized crossing of the US border is also unpopular (30 percent approval to 52 percent disapproval), and given the relative lack of interest group pressure on the issue, Democrats like Sanders who endorsed this idea might want to consider simply flip-flopping.
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These races suggest that there is a residual anti-incumbent vote within the Republican Party, much as there was in 2016, but that the candidates who emerge in these races will have a difficult time attracting interest group or super PAC support.
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That team, led by the law offices of Mark S. Zaid and the Veritas Law Firm, includes the George Washington University Law School professors Alan B. Morrison, who co-founded and led a public interest group with Ralph Nader, and Steven L. Schooner.
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"This opens the door to advertisements from fertility clinics of giving your child the best start in life with a gene-editing packet," said Marcy Darnovsky, the executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a public interest group in Berkeley, Calif.
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The union is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, which is hardly a Republican interest group, but it has been vocally opposed to the Obama administration's immigration policy, which it feels ties agents' hands and keeps them from enforcing the law against unauthorized immigrants.
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The suit—or petition for review—was filed by the coalition's legal team before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where the public interest group Public Knowledge and New America's Open Technology Institute filed protective filings, likewise challenging the order, last month.
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Fitzpatrick's campaign manager Dave Johnston told Fox News that as soon as the campaign became aware of the donation from Kidan, they contributed the figure to the Bucks County Opportunity Council and Bucks County Down Syndrome Interest Group, both of which received $2,700 each.
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But what worries the Democratic Party professionals who've rallied to Clinton's side — not just her inner circle, but the vast majority of the party's elected officials and interest group leaders, including people who are more ideologically in-sync with Bernie — isn't Sanders' personal standing.
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Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who now serves as a special adviser at DC-based public interest group Common Cause, said in a phone interview that the merger's conditions are not nearly strong enough to offset what he called the deal's harmful consumer impacts.
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"Just as AT&T's recent purchase of DirecTV was quickly followed by price hikes, there's every reason to expect this proposed tie-up would cost internet users and TV viewers dearly, too," said Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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"The content on the Internet isn't the same thing as the wire that connects you to it," explained Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, in a statement: This distinction is understandably infuriating to the big cable and phone companies.
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That info was disclosed in a near identical FOIA lawsuit filed against the State Department by the public interest group Judicial Watch, whose FOIA lawsuit against the State Department was also where details were first disclosed about the 25,900 deleted emails recovered by the FBI.
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That info was disclosed in a near identical FOIA lawsuit filed against the State Department by the public interest group Judicial Watch, whose FOIA lawsuit against the State Department was also where details were first disclosed about the 14,900 deleted emails recovered by the FBI.
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While this is true of all presidents, rarely have we seen a situation where there have been genuine fears that the administration is being driven by personal economic considerations rather than the public interest or even other sorts of interest group and partisan considerations.
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Speaking of big tech releases of 1999, another important one we sometimes take for granted came in July of 1999, when the specifications for Bluetooth 1.0 were released by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, a group made up of Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba.
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This process of direct democracy has often proved more effective than the customary actions of a party, politician, interest group or deep-pocketed donor at addressing some of the most divisive topics in our history: including suffrage, prohibition, gay rights, the death penalty and marijuana.
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Democrats should double down on the battles for equal rights in America, and work to clarify to the swing voters precisely what these battles consist of — for in their ideal application, equal rights do not step on the toes of any special interest group.
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"Sure looks like a quid pro quo: friendly coverage and full employment for ex-Trump mouthpieces in exchange for a green light to get as big as Sinclair wants," Craig Aaron, CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a May statement.
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The bride's father was a gastroenterologist and internist at the Mid Hudson Medical Group in Fishkill, N.Y., and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Her mother is the president of the Jewish Interest Group at Shannondell at Valley Forge, a retirement community in Audubon.
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Writing in a blog post about "evolving threats" to Internet users' privacy and security, the W3C standards body's technical architecture group (TAG) and Privacy Interest Group (PING) set out a series of revisions to the W3C's Security and Privacy Questionnaire for web feature developers.
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That means they'll have no votes to spare among the Democratic caucus, so every interest group impacted will be calling up its allies on the Hill and seeking to tweak this or that provision in such a way as to secure its core interests.
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The increased polarization in society, the development of alternative schools of legal interpretation that line up with political leanings, and increased interest-group attention to the Supreme Court nomination process have combined to create a system in which the Court has become a political football.
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"Clearly, the D.O.J. has honed in on the dangers of concentrated transmission and concentrated media content markets that is harmful to competition and to consumers," said Gene Kimmelman, president of the public interest group Public Knowledge and a former senior antitrust official the Justice Department.
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It is emphatically not the job of the EPA administrator to pursue policies satisfying the political preferences of this or that interest group, whether the fossil fuel industry or the environmental left or any others; balancing of such competing demands is the job of Congress.
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The modern EPA is a massive bureaucratic interest group out of control, effectively unconstrained by law or the constitution, a repository of environmental fanaticism utterly uninterested in the well-being of ordinary people or, for that matter, in the actual environmental effects of its edicts.
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The inspector general's investigation was opened after a complaint from a public interest group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, that Shanahan, a former high-level executive at Boeing, allegedly violated ethics rules by criticizing Lockheed Martin -- Boeing's competitor on military fighter jet contracts.
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And it's worth noting that while the DBCFT failed because of a toxic brew of interest-group politics and partisanship, the rest of this stuff didn't happen because, despite the breathless coverage from credulous journalists, the Roadmap was flim-flam from beginning to end.
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"Senate Republicans just struck a massive blow against everyone who uses the internet, dismantling rules protecting people's private information from unauthorized use and abuse by cable and phone companies," Gaurav Laroia, policy counsel at DC-based public interest group Free Press Action Fund, said in a statement.
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If the group conducting the poll is an interest group like Planned Parenthood or the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List, for example, and says that on the call, the poll-taker is more likely to give them answers favorable to the group's point of view.
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The 1980 and 1976 GOP primaries were about whether the Republican Party should be a vehicle of the conservative movement or whether it should continue in the Eisenhower/Nixon/Ford model of right-leaning interest group brokerage — with the conservatives winning in 1980 and never letting go.
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Read More: How to Protect the Internet "Ignoring calls from thousands of their constituents, House Republicans just joined their colleagues in the Senate in violating internet users' privacy rights," Craig Aaron, CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press Action Fund, said in a statement.
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Read more: The FCC eyes new reforms after net neutrality win "Internet users have fought and won net neutrality protections in India, South America and the United States," Timothy Karr, Senior Director of Strategy at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in an emailed statement.
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Name the industry or interest group and they've been on the Hill the last 48 hours to try and persuade, defend or outright defeat various provisions in a tax overhaul that all involved see as a train that's not only moving, but almost to its final destination.
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"It's critical for rules like this that OMB be able to make sure all the procedures were followed and there's enough scientific evidence to support it," said Glenn Lammi, chief counsel of legal studies at the Washington Legal Foundation, a free-market-oriented public interest group.
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But there was also a fair amount of political-science evidence that the Republicans really were a more ideological party than the Democrats, less inclined to view compromise in favorable terms, more inclined to regard politics through a philosophical rather than an interest-group service lens.
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In court documents filed earlier on Wednesday, prosecutors also alleged that Butina, who said she was a gun-rights activist and developed ties to an "extensive network of U.S. persons in positions to influence political activities," offered to exchange sex for a job with an interest group.
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For rich countries, accepting large numbers of immigrants is a basic obligation of justice, as is helping the poor at home, and left of center people need to be thinking hard about how to build an electoral and interest group coalition that can support both those goals.
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"Another day, another blow to internet users, struck yet again by the Trump FCC on behalf of the giant media conglomerates that the president's new chairman is hell-bent on protecting," Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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Outside the Pentagon, a separate report by the public interest group The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics from 2013 found millions of records missing — of criminal convictions, prior mental illness and other red flags — that are supposed to keep guns out of potentially dangerous hands.
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"This may be a constituency that's 233 or 242 or 223 percent of the American adult public," said Paul Blair, the director of strategic initiatives at Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative interest group that has long fought for lower taxes and fewer regulations on electronic cigarettes.
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More importantly, though, Obama's main argument was that the current economic and political trajectory of the country is broadly positive even as Republicans control Congress, and where the trajectory isn't positive, the problems lie in the nature of our political discourse: interest group capture, gerrymandering, etc.
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That's why there's fairly widespread policy agreement that it would be desirable to close this loophole, though of course there is interest group lobbying to keep it place and a lot of room for disagreement about what to do with the money that could be raised.
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In discussions with Gizmodo during this past fall in the wake of the Samsung phone recall, a special interest group argued that if consumers are given a platform to express discontent with a product, a given company doesn't have a fair chance to defend itself against any lies.
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"Chairman Pai is kissing the ring of the Big Money lobbyists who too often call the shots in the Trump Administration," former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, a longtime net neutrality champion who now serves as a special advisor at public interest group Common Cause, said in a statement.
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"Let's be clear: industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters," former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who now serves as Special Adviser to public interest group Common Cause, said in an emailed statement.
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And they must contend as well with the distortions and pressures introduced by political meddling of the sort that large government debt is all but certain to attract, because payments to creditors reduce the amount of budget dollars available for interest-group spending in the here and now.
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And though Republicans in Congress were able to slash some loopholes into Dodd-Frank by coaxing concessions from the Obama administration (what advocates called "death by a thousand cuts"), the GOP and their interest group allies have been licking their chops for a chance to dismantle the law.
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One of them has got to start… a center-right party liberated from all the Trump birthers, the Sarah Palins, the Grover Norquists, the Sean Hannitys, the Rush Limbaughs, the gun lobby, the oil lobby and every other narrow-interest group, a party that redefines a principled conservatism.
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I described the conditions of gridlock and special interest group interference that stymie any efforts to honestly review the conditions of our Second Amendment rights and legislative action that may or may not have changed anything in any particular "mass shooting" —generally defined as four or more casualties.
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Gaurav Laroia, policy counsel at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement that "when these companies complain, it's important to remember that the FCC's rules don't ban marketing: They just enable internet users to control whether and how their personal information can be used."
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DOI is not required to get public input, but Zinke has vigorously solicited the industry's, according to Greenwire: In his first two months on the job, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had more meetings with oil and gas industry executives than representatives of any other type of interest group.
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If she's smart, Clinton will ask her team to take a good hard look at places like Wisconsin and Iowa to see if there's an option out there who could strengthen Democrats in the Midwest, even if it's someone who doesn't have a built-in interest group fan base.
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"No one company should have such power over the news and information that citizens must have to successfully practice the art of self-government," Michael Copps, former FCC Commissioner and Special Adviser at public interest group Common Cause, said in a recent statement about the Sinclair-Tribune deal.
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Between grassroots hostility to Obama, non-transactional billionaire outside donors like the Koch brothers, a strategic calculus from Mitch McConnell that maximum obstruction would deliver electoral benefits, and the perennial hothouse atmosphere of Fox News and talk radio, interest group buy-in turned out not to matter that much.
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Among LePage's more controversial comments: > In January 2011, just 10 days after taking office, LePage told a Portland television reporter he would not be attending Martin Luther King Jr. Day events because he considered the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) a special-interest group.
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Much of the blame must be placed on the high-pedigreed economists in and out of government who advise politicians, policy makers, the Fed, big corporate CEOs, and interest-group trade associations to pursue a cronyist corporate-welfare system that both creates and then relies on a government-driven economy.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques might not have the most exciting name, but every year Siggraph draws the most talented programmers, engineers, and artists to its conference to show off their brilliant CG creations and developments.
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Now that the convention is wrapped up, the quiet discussions happening between Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, key donors like Paul Singer and the Koch brothers, and interest group players like the National Rifle Association and the Chamber of Commerce are about whether the institutional GOP should try to encourage Johnson voters.
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In "Lobbying the New President," I showed that more than two-thirds (2628 percent) of transition hearings (hearings held for Cabinet appointments during the first year of a newly elected president) featured at least one letter submitted by an interest group compared to just half (28503 percent) of non-transition hearings.
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On the one hand, the understanding of the Democratic Party as a set of interests perfectly explains why the candidate with broad demographic support and interest group loyalty (Hillary Clinton) beat the ideologically pure candidate who wanted to cleanse the party of its more rightward, pro–Wall Street elements (Bernie Sanders).
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With key interest group players ranging from unenthusiastic to hostile, and the bill clearly short of the 50 votes it would need to pass the Senate, conventional thinking about legislating would urge the House Republican leadership to slow down and come up with something they can build more consensus around.
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"To understand where her true loyalties lie, one need only follow the money trail of campaign contributions from massive media companies like AT&T, Comcast, News Corp and Verizon," Tim Karr, Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press Action Fund, a DC-based public interest group, said in a statement.
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As a counterweight, a new liberal interest group, Demand Justice, plans to spend as much as $5 million to push the moderate Democrats to hold fast against the nominee, as well as attempt to persuade moderate Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to oppose Kavanaugh.
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Partisan and interest group politics in the United States isn't organized around how to respond to coups in Turkey or Chinese provocations in the South China Sea or a bus being used as a weapon to mow down French civilians or even a British referendum throwing financial markets into chaos.
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In April, a federal court ruled that the Attorney General of California could not demand that a public interest group hand over its Schedule B to the State, after finding that more than 1,700 such forms already had been improperly disclosed and every form was put online without password protection.
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"The documents provided by the whistleblower raise serious concerns about whether the Trump Administration is now taking orders from an extreme right-wing interest group that is trying to deny American citizens the ability to exercise their right to obtain family planning services from the provider of their choice," Rep.
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Any photos should be taken for an explicit educational or diagnostic reason, with the parents' consent and patient privacy top of mind, said Dorit Koren, a pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and cochair of the Pediatric Endocrine Society's ethics special interest group, though she was not speaking on behalf of the group.
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Not only does the term reduce half the population to a special interest group — in the words of Senator Barbara Mikulski, "We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year" — it sends the misleading message that we've somehow reached the finish line on gender parity, or that we have had our moment.
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In 2015, in a case with direct parallels to the CREW complaint, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., cited Lujan to dismiss a suit in which the public interest group Better Markets alleged the Justice Department should not have entered a $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase without disclosing the bank's conduct.
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One of them has got to start the N.R.P. — New Republican Party — a center-right party liberated from all the Trump birthers, the Sarah Palins, the Grover Norquists, the Sean Hannitys, the Rush Limbaughs, the gun lobby, the oil lobby and every other narrow-interest group, a party that redefines a principled conservatism.
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In the end, the objections had little effect on the F.C.C. "Hopefully, this is the end of what has been the race to the bottom for online privacy, and hopefully the beginning of a race to the top," said Harold Feld, senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit public interest group.
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If those same ADs now qualify as a well-to-do special interest group with a feathered nest to protect—and make no mistake, they do—then why wouldn't they try to game the system by lobbying Washington lawmakers, the same way gunmakers, pharmaceutical companies, and a host of other industries long have?
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But along with economic inequality, there is another culprit exacerbating the digital divide, according to a new study released Tuesday by a leading public interest group: systemic racial discrimination in housing, banking and other sectors of the economy, along with broadband industry practices that pose barriers to internet adoption among marginalized groups.
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But it seems clear that the bill's main problems in the Senate GOP caucus have basically nothing to do with either unpopularity or interest group politics, but instead hinge on a few members' concerns about the deficit and a few other members' concerns about whether it does enough to help owners of pass-through businesses.
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"If the sponsors of this resolution were serious about protecting your private information on the internet, the last thing they'd do is move to dismantle rules protecting it from unauthorized use and abuse by cable and phone companies," Matt Wood, Policy Director at DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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"Here's how cost-benefit analysis works in the Trump administration and at the Pai FCC: If any favored lobby like the cable industry claims that rules cost them money, the agency will zap those rules—without any regard for their benefits," said Matt Wood, policy director at DC-based public interest group Free Press.
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I.), and Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa), along with EPA senior counsel Joe Goffman and numerous private sector and interest group representatives.
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But as Vox's Matt Yglesias explains, the filibuster also has given lawmakers some political cover on difficult votes: A senator can even take a position in favor of some sweeping piece of legislation and then quietly reassure interest group opponents that everyone knows this isn't getting 60 votes and really just represents an opening bid.
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He is also a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism and the author of The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State: Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan as well as journal articles and book chapters on American political development, historical institutionalism, and comparative public policy.
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"The agency can now stay focused on safeguarding the open communications networks that power our democracy and our economy and on promoting broadband competition, privacy and affordable internet access for everyone," said Craig Aaron, president and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, which has long advocated for consumer-friendly federal telecom policies.
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"When we're going backward at the federal level, for states to step up and take action on climate, take steps to modernize our transportation system, it's just an unprecedented opportunity," said Jordan Stutt, carbon programs director at the Acadia Center, a research and public interest group in New England that is pushing for cleaner energy.
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Instead, they behave more like a centrist, interest group brokerage party that seeks to mediate between the claims and concerns of left-wing activists groups and those of important members of the business community — especially industries like finance, Hollywood, and tech that are based in liberal coastal states and whose executives generally espouse a progressive outlook on cultural change.
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The proposal would allow Trump to create a "President's Committee for the Re-Beautification of Federal Architecture," which would enforce this design mandate, and this panel would exclude "artists, architects, engineers, art or architecture critics, members of the building industry or any other members of the public that are affiliated with any interest group or organization" involved in architecture.
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A presidential budget submission can play many roles — highlighting the alleged unreasonableness of congressional opposition, putting a new idea on the public agenda, rewarding a key interest group, or picking a symbolically useful fight— but for a newly elected president blessed with congressional majorities, one would expect it to also be a fairly literal legislative proposal.
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"Wheeler didn't come into this job as a net neutrality champion, but he will be remembered first and foremost for his leadership on that crucial issue and for the standing ovations he earned on the day of the FCC's historic vote," Craig Aaron, president and CEO of DC-based public interest group Free Press, said in a statement.
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As Vox's Matt Yglesias explains, the filibuster doesn't just block major legislation — it's also given lawmakers some political cover on difficult votes: A senator can even take a position in favor of some sweeping piece of legislation and then quietly reassure interest group opponents that everyone knows this isn't getting 60 votes and really just represents an opening bid.
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Mr. Cuomo, in turn, will have to stir the Legislature, which has, regrettably, taken little interest in overseeing and improving the M.T.A. Besides annual hearings about the M.T.A.'s budget, the State Assembly and the Senate conducted just two oversight hearings on the M.T.A. between 2015 and last year, according to Reinvent Albany, a public interest group.
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"More than 20 million Americans currently have health care coverage due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and among the AMA's highest priorities for on-going health system reform efforts is to ensure that these individuals maintain that coverage," said the letter signed by James L. Madara, the CEO of the interest group, a prolific donor to both political parties.
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"We don't get a lot of good news in communications policy these days, but the fact that Jessica will be returning to the Federal Communications Commission, if confirmed by the Senate, is really good news," former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, who now serves as a special adviser at DC-based public interest group Common Cause, told Motherboard in a phone interview.
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And responding to a lawsuit by a "public interest" group under the Freedom of Information Act, the George W. Bush Library and Museum has stated that fulfilling the group's demands for documents about Kavanaugh's activities as a White House counsel and staff secretary would take 20 years – and in any case would not include nearly 14,000 pages of materials exempted under law.
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"After finally gaining basic privacy protections for broadband providers last year, it's outrageous that Chairman Pai will now remove the simple rule that internet service providers must take reasonable data security measures to protect their customers' information," said Chris Lewis, vice president at Public Knowledge, a public interest group with a focus on the open internet, in a statement following the suspension.
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"There are some examples of real concerns about these kinds of consent decrees working, because the company that faces limitations has an arsenal of lawyers and resources to fight against those who seek to take advantage of the consent decree," said Gene Kimmelman, chief executive of Public Knowledge, a Washington-based public interest group, and a former antitrust official at the Justice Department.
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"He recognized that science, and the scientific endeavor broadly, was a political interest group like any other, and they behaved like any other, and he covered them like any other," said Daniel Sarewitz, a congressional staffer in the science policy arena in the early 21960s and now director of the Washington-based Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University.
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"The documents provided by the whistleblower raise serious concerns about whether the Trump administration is now taking orders from an extreme right-wing interest group that is trying to deny American citizens the ability to exercise their right to obtain family planning services from the provider of their choice, which is guaranteed by federal statute," Cummings said in his letter to the department.
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"Additionally, after facing a massive premium increase as we age, the bill weakens Medicare funding, opening the door to turning Medicare into a voucher program that shifts costs for prescriptions and insurance to seniors, at the same time it gives big drug and insurance companies and other special interests a sweetheart deal," the interest group that advocates for older Americans said in a statement.
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One recent focus of scrutiny has been the ties between Michael Pratt, Senior Advisor for Global Health in the CDC's disease prevention unit, and Coca-Cola's brainchild — the nonprofit corporate interest group called the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI.) ISLI was founded by Coca-Cola scientific and regulatory affairs leader Alex Malaspina in 1978, and continues to advocate for the agenda of beverage and food industries.
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"Even though coal is a proven source of relatively inexpensive energy that supports thousands of jobs across Ohio, and even though Ohio relies on coal for approximately 70 percent of our electricity, Ted worked on behalf of a liberal special interest group in Washington that is dedicated to ending coal jobs," Portman said, referring to Strickland's leadership of the Center for American Progress Action Fund from 2014 to 85033.
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