American steel producers who oppose cheaper competition from abroad are powerful political lobbyists.
Opponents favoured using cash to win political influence through lobbyists.
It called on companies to issue regular reports on action they were taking to fight corruption, and to reveal any financial support they gave to political parties, lobbyists and governments.
In addition, political leaders must manage not only the interests of the House, Senate, and Judicial branches, but also of political parties, lobbyists, and bureaucrats, while hopefully acting in the best interest of voters.
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Barack Obama, Edwards has eschewed fund-raising from lobbyists or Political Action Committees (PACs) during the 2008 campaign.
The Obama campaign has deftly used the Internet to reach new donors while refusing to take money from registered lobbyists and political action committees (PACs).
Unlike Senator Clinton, I have also never taken a dime from federal lobbyists or political action committees, because I know that money comes with strings attached.
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The Democratic National Committee does not accept contributions from registered federal lobbyists or political action committees and hasn't done so since President Obama became the party's nominee last year.
The Democrat also attacked McCain and Republicans for taking money from lobbyists and political action committees, and he faulted McCain for not checking the campaign spending of conservative groups independent from his campaign.
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We have big companies and although we have massively fewer lobbyists and political donations, we do have honesty, credibility, a history of being right about technology and its value, and a bipartisan consensus that fostering innovation must be a national strategy.
Lobbyists occupy the political front lines of many existing and occasionally newly established vested interests.
As Washington establishes itself as an enormous financial hub, lobbyists latch to political axles like spokes on a wheel.
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That means that the governing elite now control more than 50% of the income produced by the American people to spend and distribute as they and lobbyists for powerful political and economic interests see fit.
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Should the Tax Code be used as a tool to hide the names of mega-givers to political candidates or the activities of lobbyists?
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Inevitably the large but limited public funds disbursed to research institutes and universities would become bones of political contention, attracting courtesans, lobbyists, and consumers as only a large honeypot of dollars does.
The first is political action - the same type of political action that other countries use against us when they hire lobbyists, fund grass-roots front organizations, and channel money through political action committees and similar organizations.
The Kochs and their company have given additional millions to political campaigns, advocacy groups, and lobbyists.
The quest for influence, power and control at all levels of government has long played out through large political contributions and the big bucks paid to lobbyists to accomplish special interest objectives.
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To hear the industry's lobbyists tell it, this hinges on political willingness to fight unfair trade.
The legislation would require hedge funds and other firms pursuing political intelligence to disclose their activities, similar to lobbyists.
If we all take a look around, we'll see a good chunk of our political process has been kidnapped by career politicians and lobbyists, working to serve each other more than the American people.
In the real world of Washington, two factors will loom largest in how the government approaches reconstruction: political ideology and, more important, the power of lobbyists.
Time and again, the path forward has been blocked -- not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.
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They offered political positions to editors who supported it, and Seward hired disreputable lobbyists to secure the votes of resistant Democrats and ambivalent border-state Unionists.
The political tendency is to expand the definition of insurance at the behest of lobbyists, rather than allowing individuals to only buy the coverage they want and need.
By opening up Congress to greater scrutiny, changing campaign finance laws and holding popular referenda, he argues, America has produced a dysfunctional political system dominated by special-interest groups, fund-raisers and lobbyists.
Sure, the area is populated by legions of well-off politicians, lawyers and lobbyists, but in very few cases has laboring in the political hothouse generated the magnitude of wealth necessary to place highly in Forbes' rankings.
And he subsequently built his political life on themes of redemption, reform, and became the scourge of lobbyists, the champion of campaign finance reform and so on, yet according to some of the people who know him best, he can be surprisingly careless about his reputation.
President, congressmen, lobbyists, lawyers: all are subject to rules on how you can raise political funds, what kinds of conversation might be subject to subpoena, what constitutes a conflict of interest.
As well as Lords reform, (or not), there will probably be big bills on the welfare system, higher education, business rates, and a series of political reform issues, like a power for voters to recall MPs and a register of lobbyists.
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