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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Climate

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

WhoRunsGov.com - Nov. 19 (Interview) - The Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the country's most influential environmental groups, has sent at least a half-dozen former employees into prime government positions tasked with writing U.S. climate and energy policies.

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Jack N. Gerard - WhoRunsGov.com, a Wash Post Co

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

WhoRunsGov.com - Nov. 18 (News) - Current Position: President of the American Petroleum Institute (since November 2008)

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Lieberman Moving Forward With Hearing About “Czars” — Though Feingold Found Nothing Wrong

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

WhoRunsGov.com - By Greg Sargent - Oct. 19 (News Report) - When I reported here that Joe Lieberman was set to use his plum committee perch to hold hearings into Obama’s alleged “czar” problem, some of you were incredulous. •The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security

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On Private Conference Call, Tea Party Organizers Say No Reform At All Is Goal

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Plum Line - By Greg Sargent - Aug. 11 (News Report) - On a private conference call, a group of top Tea Party and conservative organizers offered a surprisingly frank description of their goal, according to a source on the call: Completely blocking any kind of bipartisan compromise, and completely preventing any type of health care reform bill at all from ever becoming law.

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CNN Refusing To Run Health Care Ad Critical Of Insurance Industry

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

WhoRunsGov.com - By Greg Sargent - Aug. 05 (News) - Americans United for Change’s spokesman, Jeremy Funk, tells me that CNN refused to run the ad nationally. He says CNN emailed the following reason for rejection: “This ad does not comply with our clearance guidelines because it unnecessarily singles out an individual company and person.” That very well may be CNN’s policy. But AUC maintains that the mention of Cigna’s CEO was necessary to dramatize the enormous stake the insurance industry has in the health care wars. What’s more, AUC argues, the industry is made up of companies that are run by individuals deciding how to spend huge money to impact the health care debate — so why are they off limits?

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GOP Leadership To Obama: You Never Call, You Never Write…

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Greg Sargent - Jun. 30 (News Report) - GOP leaders have a new complaint about President Obama: He’s not reaching out to them nearly as much as he did earlier this year, when he road-tested his pledge of post-partisanship, only to get uniformly rebuffed on his first big legislative initiative.

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Nominee For Treasury’s Number Two Helped Draft Legislation Deregulating Banks

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

WhoRunsGov.com - By Greg Sargent - Apr. 01 (News Report) - Tim Geithner’s new nominee for number two at the Treasury Department, Neal Wolin, played a key role in drafting legislation in the late 1990s deregulating the banking system, a former Treasury Department official confirms to us.

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