Telecom and Internet application companies are sending lobbyists and corporate executives to Washington to try and sway the newly appointed... View Article
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1) TPM has been hounding Rep. Steve Buyer over his namesake non-profit that seemingly exists as a conduit for companies... View Article
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St. Jude Medical Quits AdvaMed
In a dispute on strategy over proposed medical device taxes in current health care legislation, St. Jude Medical Inc. has quit AdvaMed, the major medical device trade association in Washington.
The group played a key role in lobbying Congress to keep certain clinical trial data secret, as detailed in Sunlight's recent "Heart of the Matter" multi-media investigation. The investigation tells the story of Bray Patrick-Lake, 39, who participated in a clinical trial sponsored by St. Jude Medical, and later found out she could not access the data collected.
Continue readingRecovery.gov’s Systemic Failure
The new Recovery.gov-- which we've written about and even nearly bid on-- has certainly taken the government huge steps forward in terms of disclosing information, but it is not without controversy. The press is questioning the program, pointing to wasteful spending or bad data. The White House fired back with a "reality check"(their words) saying that few of the reports have gone through the "extensive three-week review" and that the data might be particularly misleading at this point.
Apple Claims Drawings of Public Figures Are “Obscene, Pornographic or Defamatory”
According to Apple, political caricatures are “obscene, pornographic or defamatory.” This is monumentally stupid: Back in the late summer movie... View Article
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1) The White House’s agressive outreach to and public shaming of certain lobbyist groups is causing a reshuffling of the... View Article
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1) Some facts about H.R. 3962. Fewer words than Harry Potter books and only one-half of one percent of the... View Article
Continue readingThe Max Baucus Energy & Climate Lobbyist Complex
Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported out a bill to address climate change by a 10-1... View Article
Continue readingHow many stimulus jobs does it take to change a light bulb?
Pointing out flaws in Recovery.gov data is getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel (see here, here, here, here, here and here for examples). While reporters had to dig out those examples, a handful of records do the work for you.
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