Free Press, a DC-based public interest group, strongly disputes that assertion.
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A 85033 report from public interest group Common Cause found that political forces blunted its impact.
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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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"This is an enormous win for consumers," said Gene Kimmelman, president of the public interest group Public Knowledge.
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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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A former employee of a public interest group tells of being berated by Pai for an offending press release.
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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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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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"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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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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 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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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" 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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"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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" 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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"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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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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"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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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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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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"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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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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"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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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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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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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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"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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"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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"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 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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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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 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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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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"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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"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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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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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"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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