REELING IN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS: A bill that aims to limit special interest groups' ability to push federal agencies to adopt regulations through litigation.
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He noted the VA's official media account has recently been attacking reporters as "fake news" and the voices of political interest groups have been prioritized over veterans interest groups.
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Interest groups Trump has looked to present himself as unbeholden to gun interest groups, even accusing members of his own party of being afraid of the National Rifle Association.
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" And the two groups fare roughly as poorly when interest groups are pitted against them: "The rich get their favored outcome despite the combined opposition of [interest groups and the middle] at a rate of 21960 percent; meanwhile, average Americans' favored outcome occurs 30 percent of the time that they face combined opposition from interest groups and the wealthy.
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Most notably, the primary interest groups haven't even engaged yet.
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And interest groups can target lawmakers to influence their votes.
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And a lot of that's driven by special interest groups.
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Replacing a party grandee means a fight between interest groups.
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Super PACs and interest groups wield tremendous influence on legislators.
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They'll rely on help from national parties and interest groups.
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Grindstone conducts opposition research for political candidates and interest groups.
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Trump's tariff moves have set conservative interest groups against him.
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But a number of public interest groups are opposing it.
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"It's impossible to change things without interest groups," he writes.
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Entrenched interest groups, particularly insurers, spent millions opposing the measure.
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Traditional Republican interest groups are not giving Trump any cover, either.
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Political parties and interest groups don't always prefer the same candidates.
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Clinton has been bought by speaking fees from general interest groups.
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Public interest groups announced simultaneously that they had also filed petitions.
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The bill is expected to face strong opposition from interest groups.
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Many public interest groups don't realize they are targeted by governments.
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Ever more interest groups oppose different industries for different moral reasons.
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But in saying that special interest groups created a "frenzy," Sen.
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Unfortunately, entrenched interest groups often benefit from erecting barriers to competition.
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On the opposing side were consumer, minority and public interest groups.
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Special interest groups spent nearly $1.5 billion on the 2016 election.
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Their donors & special interest groups are not happy with them. Sad!
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Ed Markey, a key ally in Congress for consumer interest groups.
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"Something must be done now," demand politicians, pundits and interest groups.
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Even nonprofit consumer interest groups are taking advantage of the situation.
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Additionally, interest groups in Washington are incentivized to bet on incumbents.
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These are both traditional roles for party committees and interest groups.
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Lawmakers and public interest groups have also raised concerns about privacy.
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"It will have an impact on interest groups," Mr. Zou said.
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The legislation had support from numerous environmental and other interest groups.
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These informal advisers are on the payroll of special interest groups.
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Interest groups' candidate endorsements (positive or negative) can affect voters' choices.
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We need stories that include institutions: political parties and interest groups.
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MCCONNELL: In 22, these far-left special interest groups impinge his character.
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No interest groups were calling in and telling anyone not to budge.
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But Democratic interest groups aren't just more numerous; they're also more persistent.
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"Do we want the person picked by right-wing special interest groups?"
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Historically, interest groups have benefited from threat, or the perception of threat.
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But special-interest groups are doing everything they can to derail it.
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Instead, they have turned to special interest groups to drive centralized planning.
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The study helps to explain how interest groups can skew national policy.
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Clinton's ties to special interest groups and her stances on foreign policy.
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These are really powerful interest groups with major constituencies on the Hill.
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But his sudden turnabout stunned politicians and interest groups in the state.
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The new policies came under immediate attack from experts and interest groups.
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News outlets, politicians, and interest groups sometimes exaggerate claims that then backfire.
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Taking on these different interest groups is crucial to dismantling mass incarceration.
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A few of the ideas seem likely to rankle powerful interest groups.
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He also hasn't received any donations from corporate PACS or interest groups.
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Interest groups also played an important role in explaining congressional staffs' errors.
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Both parties, but particularly Democrats, have an army of outside interest groups.
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This is democratic pluralism, in which interest groups compete to shape society.
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Are there any big donors and interest groups in your latest report?
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She has also promised to not take donations from special interest groups.
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He has great faith in interest groups that can exert political pressure.
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Dow and agricultural interest groups had pressed Pruitt to reject the petition.
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There are interest groups that care, if you can talk to them.
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And it requires hard choices, angering some interest groups while pleasing others.
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"They want to control our country," she said of Republican special interest groups.
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Interest groups are finding ever more ingenious ways to pretzel the political process.
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We're also seeing some upstarts focused on creating social networks for interest groups.
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It hints at a vast conspiracy of academics, historians, and Māori interest groups.
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"Bayer stands for openness and fair dealings with all interest groups," it added.
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Mr Gove has experience, as education secretary, in dealing with entrenched interest groups.
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Jayapal highlighted support from various labor unions and public interest groups on Wednesday.
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That's a key argument of the public interest groups that oppose the deal.
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Campus politics, like American politics generally, is a clash of competing interest groups.
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The mere words "tax reform" bring out special interest groups of all stripes.
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They aren't lobbyists, and they aren't paid by special interest groups like Westlands.
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Democrats and liberal interest groups immediately rose up in revolt against his nomination.
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That drew the ire of tech companies and public interest groups this week.
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Zo connects Studio members to events, services, and interest groups within the building.
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Does that not include foreign organizations like environmental and other public interest groups?
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Meanwhile, another cohort of interest groups form to stop projects they don't want.
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He said he expects interest groups to run ads going after her stance.
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It also features public interest groups Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Consumers Union.
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They are quick to cater to special interest groups, terrible at saying no.
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This is why we need political intermediaries — politicians, interest groups, even political parties.
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No more backdoor special interest groups feeding money to our lawmakers for favors.
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Vox Media has a lot of those, where they have special interest groups.
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For example, with the court's ruling on Obamacare impending, ideologically aligned interest groups clamored
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Interest groups on both sides spending a lot of money to make their case.
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The first involves the inevitable strong and well-funded opposition of special-interest groups.
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There were two Republican, two Democratic candidates, and a bevy of special interest groups.
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I feel like, I mean, legacy admissions, it's a reflection of interest groups, right?
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Thatcher and her successors took on trade unions and other working-class interest groups.
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Special interest groups and their lobbyists are already racing to Capitol Hill in opposition.
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That sort of consolidation worries public interest groups and their progressive allies in Congress.
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Others participate by supporting advocacy organizations, becoming grassroots volunteers, or joining organized interest groups.
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Thankfully, Democratic lawmakers and public interest groups are calling attention to these stealth attacks.
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Congress and public interest groups could go to court over what should be released.
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These special interest groups have pushed several states to call for a constitutional convention.
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It's even worse that the rules were shaped by biased, well-funded interest groups.
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Next, special interest groups would have to be expertly navigated and stakeholders aggressively engaged.
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For one, there are powerful conservative special interest groups that want criminal justice reform.
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You'll find there are lots of regular meet-ups and many local interest groups.
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Donald Trump hasn't made many promises that have ready-made interest groups holding receipts.
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For a politician, private talk — with donors, journalists, interest groups, members of Congress, etc.
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More public interest groups and tech companies are also expected to take legal action.
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In practice, however, policy all too often ends up being captured by interest groups.
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Special interest groups favoring protectionism would jump on the band wagon and demand remedies.
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The result is outsize influence for well-funded interest groups and public relations consultants.
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There's nothing new about interest groups using polls to try to persuade decision makers.
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In Iowa, interest groups are trying to push the Democratic candidates to the left.
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In Iowa, interest groups are trying to push the Democratic candidates to the left.
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We are used to treating politicians as vehicles for political philosophies and interest groups.
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It will also create vicious feuds between the parties, interest groups and the generations.
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Interest groups are trying to convince moderate Democrats and Republicans to vote against him.
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Ideological blocksize battles continue and diverging opinions have split the userbase into various interest groups.
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And special interest groups (like the chain industry) are reaping a mother lode in profits.
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The effort will spark resistance within the White House, the Senate and powerful interest groups.
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New Zealand's voting system is designed so that small interest groups don't have disproportionate influence.
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Look for public interest groups to try to rally Silicon Valley employees to get involved.
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It will also hear 26 other complaints from local authorities and interest groups in April.
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" Moreover, "it relies on democratic contestation between interest groups and political parties to foster accountability.
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Clinton is part of the so-called establishment who is backed by special interest groups.
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This tactic has been used many times since, by candidates as well as interest groups.
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Many interest groups on various sides of the privacy debate have yet to offer support.
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Interest groups and businesses are likely to fight fiercely to protect their favored tax breaks.
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Association health plans, which are usually sponsored by trade organizations or interest groups, already exist.
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But that hasn't stopped special interest groups from again filing to have the lizard listed.
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President Obama backed the proposal earlier this year, and public interest groups are strongly supportive.
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Attempts to limit spending or raise taxes enraged interest groups on which the government depended.
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Interest groups like the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce have also opposed the trigger provision.
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There are interest groups in Washington that shrug off the potential consequences of market disruption.
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Whether Trump can convince pro-life interest groups of his sincerity is an open question.
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The roles played by interest groups and other "party network" actors tell some complicated tales.
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We must summon the courage to surmount opposition from special interest groups, like the NRA.
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What are people actually upset about versus manipulation of the system by various interest groups?
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They're a collection of interest groups, a party of list makers, an endless roll call.
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Unfortunately, that principle of fairness is under constant assault by interest groups seeking special advantages.
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As a result, the bills were broadly unpopular with the public and many interest groups.
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" ■ Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, said Mr. Gorsuch was "selected by interest groups.
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As president, Biden resisted the interest groups that wanted him to address health care first.
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Every day in Washington, D.C., many new coalitions, political action committees, and interest groups form.
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No one accused the kids of being "crisis actors" or puppets for special interest groups.
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The effort was supported by other public interest groups and some Democratic members of Congress.
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Medical providers are one of the most politically powerful interest groups in the United States.
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In the past, powerful interest groups have defeated every attempt to squash the employer exclusion.
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Interest groups sought to use WTO dispute resolution processes to enforce provisions favorable to them.
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But already, public interest groups have asked the EPA to consider social and economic factors.
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Jon Tester, D-Montana, who is under immense pressure from fellow lawmakers and outside interest groups.
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And when interest groups are so far apart, well, it's sweating toil to put it mildly.
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According to McGarity, Republicans are targeting rules that hurt some of the party's key interest groups.
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So, as you'd imagine, special interest groups are fighting desperately to maintain the current tax breaks.
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They're avatars for the coalition of interest groups, voting blocs, and ideologies that got them there.
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Politicians are better able to pander to narrow interest groups that decide elections, especially in primaries.
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Companies and interest groups can now give virtually without limit, diminishing the influence of political parties.
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Resist attempts to influence interpretation or content by particular interest groups, including lenders, donors and funders.
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As the list of functions and geographies grows, more interest groups enter the battle for spoils.
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Agribusiness interest groups have been counting on him to carry that torch into the Trump administration.
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So Clinton would have to triage competing interests of key interest groups in the Democratic coalition.
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Conservative interest groups like Americans for Prosperity are waging an all-out campaign against the proposal.
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And the vast majority of Democratic elected officials and liberal-aligned interest groups fell behind her.
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The money will come from super PACs, corporations, special interest groups, wealthy donors, and everyday citizens.
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These interest groups have reached out to aggrieved communities seeking to fan the flames of discontent.
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Perhaps it is caused by all the money being poured into politics from special interest groups.
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He is tied into the party's think tanks, its funders, its advocacy organizations, its interest groups.
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Based mainly on propaganda from far-left political interest groups, this information is inaccurate and misleading.
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And Republicans are building a powerful opposition by lobbying Republican senators and rallying important interest groups.
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Lobbyists and interest groups tend to take the broadest view, since that makes for better numbers.
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Saginaw Valley State University's creates "special interest groups" specifically tailored to help first year students succeed.
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"Interest groups have also spent an unprecedented amount of dark money opposing this nomination," Collins complained.
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Business consortiums and trade interest groups have taken a proactive stance on engaging the president-elect.
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He does not take money from special interest groups that direct him which way to vote.
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Polling put forth by various interest groups suggest the public will support many of these approaches.
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They'll be joined by public interest groups, including the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Free Press.
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Already, public interest groups and politicians alike are sounding the alarm about potential harms to consumers.
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As the overall situation deteriorated, we turned it over to politicians, businessmen and special-interest groups.
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"In most negotiations, you are talking to all these different interest groups," Hertzberg told me recently.
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Mr. Burduja also asked Mr. Giuliani whether he was representing any Romanian clients or interest groups.
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Unclear: Some important interest groups, like homebuilders and the small-business lobby, have already declared opposition.
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Because he is not elected, he has no lobbyists, PACs or special interest groups to placate.
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Schumer said "old fashioned capitalism has broken down," favoring special interest groups and corporations over consumers.
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This may be no surprise when interest groups are trying to maintain their right to pollute.
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Public opinion is mobilized through institutions — through interest groups, activist organizations, think tanks and political parties.
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As Trump chose Kavanaugh, conservative interest groups announced big pockets of spending to boost his confirmation.
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Government has since considered a range of similar recommendations, but special interest groups prevent meaningful change.
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As these bills come under public scrutiny, lawmakers will face intense pressure from various interest groups.
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That was partly because there are interest groups, but it's also just that people are conservative.
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A dozen challenges have been filed by 22 state attorneys general, public interest groups and others.
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And the political support for retrospective review from interest groups and the public is very limited.
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"China targets Trump's interest groups with surgical precision," a former government official in Shanghai told me.
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It is true that politicians must make concessions to get the support of key interest groups.
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Suits were also filed on Tuesday by Free Press and Public Knowledge, two public interest groups.
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Gun rights enthusiasts, abortion opponents, and other key Republican-aligned interest groups can say the same.
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Public interest groups are trying to make net neutrality an issue in this year's midterm elections.
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Bernie Sanders is, of course, hardly a naif about the immense power of corporate interest groups.
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They bought off interest groups, exploited parliamentary loopholes, and ignored the clear will of the people.
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A president can fulfill pledges to key interest groups even in the face of bad polling.
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He wants to demonstrate that nobody owns him—not lobbyists, not special interest groups, not even voters.
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Most other countries allow some combination of legislators, party members and interest groups to select party leaders.
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"There are interest groups in the deep state against democracy," says Milan Zver, the party's vice-president.
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As opposed to taking a governor, choosing a senator sends a very pointed message to interest groups.
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The gap between China's official plans and actual activities suggests interest groups are skewing Xi's signature initiative.
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It's a win for the interest groups and the candidates; the public is kept in the dark.
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The Trump team was working with dozens of interest groups in precisely this way at all times.
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When the two political parties were a jumbled collection of interest groups, conflict was easier to manage.
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It's one thing for a politician to be attacked by interest groups whose agenda he hasn't supported.
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Nonetheless, several countries continue to investigate the matter and other interest groups are also taking legal action.
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The suspense has put the community of interest groups, who fight for progressive causes, on high alert.
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Brett Kavanaugh's conservative ideology is compatible with these two interest groups and Trump's most recent ideological posture.
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Several interest groups have held or are planning forums that will draw presidential contenders to Las Vegas.
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On Thursday, ProPublica reported it had identified issues with how private interest groups use the Facebook disclaimer.
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This disinformation is being spread by interest groups and advocacy organizations on both sides of the aisle.
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Activists, candidates, interest groups, issue-based caucuses, and more hold meetings, events, protests, and lots of parties.
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There are a lot more active organizations in Washington representing business than there are public interest groups.
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As the review begins, industry and other interest groups are urging the E.P.A. to limit any restrictions.
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Public interest groups acting on behalf of Medicaid recipients are likely to challenge such waivers in court.
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Why it matters: Pressure to diversify corporate boards has historically come from shareholders and special interest groups.
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We live in a world of increasing oppositions: between political parties, weather patterns, interest groups, income distribution.
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Public interest groups have argued the bill would expose more of Americans' personal data to cyber criminals.
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Their top priority should be serving the public, not the special-interest groups that bankroll their campaigns.
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Political agendas, special interest groups, lobbyists and campaign contributions all have been put before America's general safely.
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And I think it would take someone with no loyalties to sort of very powerful interest groups.
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As Allen and Swan write, key Democratic interest groups would like a giant federal infrastructure spending package.
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A Spatial Model of Roll Call Voting: Senators, Constituents, Presidents, and Interest Groups in Supreme Court Confirmations.
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These interest groups, they find, tend to lean left overall even as some individual ones are conservative.
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All of it was designed to look like it was coming from authentic American voices and interest groups.
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We know all of this because of reporters and public interest groups, not because of government compliance forms.
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Similarly, people have falsely assumed these decisions are heavily affected by our payment processors, or outside interest groups.
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Clyburn is a known ally to public interest groups and could potentially sway favorability in the carrier's direction.
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He has said repeatedly he will not accept any contributions from corporate PACs, lobbyists and special interest groups.
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A complicated, years-long process favors litigious special-interest groups at the expense of participation by ordinary people.
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We must cut taxes for hard-working Americans, while ending the swampy loopholes crafted by special interest groups.
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Part of a campaign is meeting with interest groups, elected officials, and weirdos to ferret out useful information.
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For democracy to work, they need intermediaries — politicians, parties, interest groups — to help them achieve power and representation.
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The issue itself is fiendishly complex, affecting a host of different interest groups who are already lobbying furiously.
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Gorsuch has some hurdles to clear, such as vehement opposition from liberal interest groups and most Senate Democrats.
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Why they matter: This group is the most diverse, ranging from interest groups to companies to world leaders.
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Parts of the plan have faced resistance from pockets of the Republican Party and key conservative interest groups.
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Is there any path forward for the bill after it was panned by interest groups and Republican lawmakers?
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The message was signed by public interest groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Common Cause and Public Knowledge.
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Conway gave speeches or provided political consulting services to dozens of political interest groups, mostly advocating conservative causes.
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It was also the rare climate change policy that was praised by both conservative and progressive interest groups.
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Republicans and banking interest groups have said that the Dodd-Frank act gives too much power to regulators.
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Politicians and interest groups have a long history of misapplying the term to lend legitimacy to pet projects.
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In this way, left-leaning interest groups like local teachers unions are ideologically aligned with Tea Party Republicans.
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"It's totally controlled by the special-interest groups," he said, to wild cheers from a crowd in Maine.
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Democrats, meanwhile, still take their retirement policy cues mostly from interest groups that benefit from the status quo.
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Interest groups attempting to shape the debate also have financial patrons with a clear stake in the outcome.
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Last week, Omar spoke on the influence of special interest groups on foreign policy, specifically related to Israel.
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Buoyed by liberal, wealthy donors and other special interest groups, progressive prosecutors are gaining traction across the country.
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Supporters of the bills include review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, as well as major public interest groups.
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They rely on a "zone of lawlessness" that allows the state to suppress uppity private-sector interest groups.
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"That's a lot of interest groups on both sides of the Pacific that would be affected," he said.
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And the winner of such a narrative will be Left-leaning special interest groups seeking a fundraising bonanza.
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Bob Corker said he thinks that if the Senate triggers the nuclear option it could embolden interest groups.
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Since its 22019 passage, however, numerous interest groups have managed to jockey for a piece of the fund.
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In Florida, two big special interest groups used the ballot initiative process to protect their own bottom lines.
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Several leading public interest groups greeted Wheeler's broadband privacy proposal warmly, and criticized industry efforts to undermine it.
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Interest groups now have [more] access to levers of influence and publicity than they did 30 years ago.
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In the first study, people in consensually non-monogamous relationships were recruited through online non-monogamy interest groups.
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State governments, public interest groups and others will seek to prevent some of the damage from the order.
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For many liberals, politics involves bureaucratic administration, the management of government benefits and the jostling of interest groups.
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Interest groups and talking heads always demand immediate action on favored priorities and bemoan any delay in enactment.
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Seeking alternative routes to similar ends, interest groups are deep in talks with Congress about a legislative solution.
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The law put limits on so-called "soft money," how much political parties and interest groups could spend.
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"It is an empty criticism launched by special interest groups who are not interested in facts," she said.
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Acosta met with Democratic politicians or left-leaning interest groups only 20173 times during the same time period.
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There are no significant regulatory differences to iron out and no subsidy-hungry special interest groups to placate.
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During the campaign, Mr. Trump blasted interest groups and major donors for rigging the system against working people.
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Times Insider Every year, New York lawmakers and interest groups decamp to Puerto Rico for a cozy weekend.
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"Our political system allows itself to be influenced by these interest groups, and they're very powerful," Cheng said.
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Francis said at the ceremonial opening Mass on Sunday the fires were intentionally lit by special interest groups.
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At the ceremonial opening Mass on Sunday, Francis said the fires were intentionally lit by special interest groups.
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Public interest groups, Democratic lawmakers and sensible Republicans in Congress ought to vigorously oppose Mr. Trump's deregulatory agenda.
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These are normally won by broad coalitions including numerous so-called "civic lists" which represent local interest groups.
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More public interest groups are expected to ask the FCC to delay the vote ahead of its Dec.
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In his position, Sifakis coordinated outreach to corporations, interest groups and elected officials from state and local governments.
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Even as healthcare interest groups largely stayed on the sidelines, grassroots activists fought off the first House vote.
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In reality, interest groups push legislatures and bureaucracies to impose rules cementing their influence, marginalizing principals and parents.
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So did casinos, sports leagues and gambling interest groups — just about everyone, in fact, except some Indian tribes.
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If they all went to work as lobbyists for public interest groups, there would probably be little outrage.
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But it's a tough, down-and-dirty fight with some very powerful and very well-respected interest groups.
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We have a government by interest groups in which voters-qua-voters aren't really listened to at all.
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Some lawmakers and key conservative interest groups say the plan too closely resembles the ACA, better known as Obamacare.
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Many of the more moderate Republicans in the House and Senate are receptive to lobbying from important interest groups.
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However, the story becomes more complicated when the party organization and interest groups disagree on which candidate to support.
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But it has historically only been available to special interest groups and corporations with hoards of cash on hand.
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Yet he has pledged to stop special interest groups from trading support for politicians for government favors or funding.
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China has no state-sanctioned veterans' club of the type provided for unions, homeowners and other such interest groups.
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It has been blamed by global health interest groups for the closure of women's health clinics around the world.
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They must meet with constituents and lobbyists, some of whom actually provide useful information or represent worthwhile interest groups.
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This follows complaints from a number of public interest groups alleging YouTube failed to live up to COPPA's requirements.
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Instead, they are a left-leaning coalition of interest groups looking for group wins that tends to downplay ideology.
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As a result, legislators have come to rely ever more heavily on research and analysis produced by interest groups.
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On the latter point, he defended himself by saying he didn't want to meet with any special interest groups.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt helped orchestrate a campaign along with conservative interest groups that rallied Trump's most ardent supporters.
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The plan drew its share of supporters, including President Obama and public interest groups that work on consumer issues.
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Party elites — including leaders of interest groups whose agenda Sanders has always consistently supported — really have worked against Sanders.
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While all Cabinet appointments draw attention from interest groups, those made during the presidential transition period draw the most.
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The bill has bipartisan support in the Senate, and backing from a bipartisan array of outside interest groups, too.
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The announcement was praised by everyone from the Chamber of Commerce and the Internet Association to public interest groups.
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After it was over, Republicans decried the Democrats' tactics, which many blamed on pressure from left-wing interest groups.
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Putin wants us to believe he successfully penetrated interest groups, which are popular among Republican Party members and supporters.
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Regulation should produce benefits for society as a whole instead of creating barriers that only benefit special interest groups.
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To some voters and many interest groups, it's a sign of weakness or worse, a betrayal of core principles.
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Many members of Congress are linked to mining, energy and agro-business interest groups, a worrisome development, activists say.
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Over the course of several years, a handful of special interest groups have been working to rewrite the Constitution.
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They clearly benefit well-defined and well-funded special interest groups: the farm lobbies and ethanol and biodiesel producers.
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Many of these goodies have been lobbied for over years and narrowly appeal to specific states or interest groups.
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Take leadership in promoting and maintaining partnerships and coalitions with both conservation and other "non-traditional" interest groups.2628.
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Special interest groups continually mislead their constituents and fail to define the real cost of each program they support.
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The special interest groups of the Left don't want to quell the protestors, they want to fundraise on fear.
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The "Restoring Internet Freedom Act" would do no such thing, according to public interest groups and open internet advocates.
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Meanwhile, angry progressive lawmakers and public interest groups have pledged to fight any effort to roll back the rules.
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"There have been a lot of interest groups that have been spreading falsehoods and dishonesty about this," he said.
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It is also, in some instances, to vilify them at the behest of interest groups like the teachers' unions.
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It has areas for various interest groups, including cryptocurrency traders, doomsday preppers and fans of Japanese-style animated pornography.
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Public interest groups fear major corporations like Sinclair or CBS would grow more powerful through the relaxation of rules.
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And interest groups that have been allowed to dominate sparsely populated elections won't want to give up their power.
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When she departed the agency in 2016, though, she left some Democratic-aligned public interest groups a tad miffed.
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" But the senator mainly fixed his criticism on a specific target — "interest groups and Wall Street influences in Washington.
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But public interest groups say the utilities are effectively seeking a bailout for mistakes made by well-compensated executives.
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Several public interest groups including Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition also promised to file a suit.
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But often with programs, there are also big networks of interest groups that can grow up around a program.
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Each political party is a coalition of interest groups and political philosophies that appeal to people with diverse values.
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It has garnered strong support in both chambers and has been endorsed by a broad spectrum of interest groups.
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Self-serving, anti-worker interest groups have been lobbying the government to get the construction exemption from IRAPs reversed.
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Donors and business people and independent researchers don't answer to the interest groups that so intimidate our political class.
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Democrats and health care interest groups have been unloading on Mr. Heller all spring with no end in sight.
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Activists said there's a strong current drawing law school graduates toward elite law firms rather than public interest groups.
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If it were a crime, then journalists, campaigns, and public interest groups would be subject to regular criminal prosecution.
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Still, small business owners and interest groups have expressed concern that the plan will be disastrous for the economy.
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And despite years of promises to fix this program, Republicans ultimately buckled under the pressure of these interest groups.
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This latest chapter in the nation's long-running debate over Second Amendment rights has drawn in familiar interest groups.
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News releases fly every time a controversial issue arises from public interest groups and those affiliated with the parties.
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But they will encounter fierce resistance from homeowners, businesses and other interest groups that benefit from current tax breaks.
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But like the executive agencies of the state government, lobbyists and interest groups are also there year after year.
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Throughout the country, special interest groups are targeting these contests in order to elect judges that decide in their favor.
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He expressed solidarity his tweet with a number of medical interest groups that have said they, too, oppose the bill.
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The bill -- which did not pass -- included a major loophole exempting some major interest groups, including the National Rifle Association.
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Only 14 out of the 33 legislative assembly seats are directly elected, the rest being doled out to interest groups.
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Dutch political culture is renowned for its "polder" model, in which disparate interest groups hammer out compromises through interminable negotiations.
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This idea suggests that officeholders and the various interest groups that constitute parties — labor, environmentalists, the National Rifle Association, etc.
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Facebook is planning months of global workshops and inviting comment from third parties and interest groups to refine the draft.
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He plans instead to negotiate issue by issue with cross-party interest groups, such as evangelicals, security hardliners and farmers.
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But they may weaken the government, forcing it to make concessions to interest groups that would be hurt by change.
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Mrs Merkel, whose parliamentary constituency encompasses the point at which NS2 reaches Germany, has stared down these interest groups before.
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They have do a lot to do with which interest groups generate opposition and whether key reform constituencies are mobilized.
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There is an election next year, when he may run again, and he needs to keep powerful interest groups onside.
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A Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday featuring trade groups for tech and telecom companies, but not public interest groups.
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And all businesses and interest groups that enjoy juicy tax breaks have a strong incentive to lobby for their preservation.
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In fact, as interest groups, town halls, the opposition gets a hold of things, it's more likely they'd hemorrhage them.
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Instead of addressing broad fiscal problems, "We were pecked to death by the interest groups defending these accounts," he said.
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But what are Republicans supposed to do when two of the most powerful conservative interest groups are on opposite sides?
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Finally, at times certain technologies have been antagonized by interest groups that blame innovation for lost jobs and diminished opportunities.
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These data demonstrate that, in several ways, interest groups are most active in the Senate confirmation process during presidential transitions.
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However, social media provides a new opportunity for interest groups and other political organizations to participate in the hearing process.
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So did public interest groups, who have been supportive of Wheeler since he announced his original proposal earlier this year.
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Let's hope they put the interests of taxpayers and small farmers over those of the Big Ag special interest groups.
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These reforms have been hard work and require extensive negotiations with interest groups across those societies to develop political consensus.
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The Democrats blather on about uniting the country, but they cater to special interest groups as quickly as the Republicans.
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Which means it's a fight all of us, and not only special interest groups in Washington, D.C., should take on.
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Yet despite this overwhelmingly positive track record, some special-interest groups oppose allowing dental therapists to treat patients in need.
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Obama came into office vowing to "change how Washington works" by curbing the influence of lobbyists and special interest groups.
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Pai has argued that the FCC's policy has reduced broadband capital investment, but public interest groups strongly dispute that assertion.
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He was hand picked to fill the Supreme Court vacancy from a list drafted by anti-choice special interest groups.
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Cities and counties should also have more freedom to experiment, without being constrained by interest groups working through state legislatures.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with over 200 agricultural interest groups across the country said yes to the proposal.
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Tech interest groups have defended including protections in the Japan and North American deals as digital exports grow in size.
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Remember, too, that climate denial is essentially an industry, funded by interest groups with a stake in promoting bad science.
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A key vote is used by interest groups to grade how lawmakers vote on legislation important to their particular agenda.
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" Mr. Duke, who said that "thousands of special-interest groups stand up for African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Jewish-Americans, etc.
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Companies and interest groups have brandished their economic chops this year, touting public lands as an economic engine for recreation.
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The nation's leading public interest groups on the environment should be leading the conversation about what those solutions should be.
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Ellmers winning because she isn't beholden to them — or any other Washington special interest groups like AFP," Lytton said. "Rep.
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The current plan is to move quickly in an effort to keep special interest groups from mobilizing against the bill.
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This move comes right before Iran's first game against Morocco and is being condemned by Iranian interest groups and Iranians.
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When we think about unions, what typically come to mind are interest groups concerned with wages, benefits and working conditions.
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By working together with local governments, citizen interest groups can implement quick fixes while pushing for longer-term policy changes.
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Interest groups will likely file further lawsuits demanding that specific rules be allowed to move forward despite the order soon.
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What they're saying: Yes, but: Taxi interest groups are not impressed with what Khosrowshahi told the NY Post on Monday.
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Essentially, the states and several interest groups argue the new state and local tax cap could artificially depress home values.
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Listening to some interest groups and politicians, fossil fuels are either terrible for the planet or a godsend to humanity.
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Interest groups, journalists, and researchers who have dealt with the FOIA process complain about delays and unnecessary redactions from agencies.
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Xi's administration, "which is encouraging more overseas Chinese to become engaged in politics," also funds interest groups abroad, Brady said.
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Climate change activists have denounced Mr. Ebell, whose Competitive Enterprise Institute has received funding from oil and gas interest groups.
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Members of Congress and public interest groups need to stand up and make clear that, otherwise, the appointment is wrong.
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Programs become entrenched as beneficiaries multiply and interest groups develop around them, making retrenchment, or cuts, difficult if not impossible.
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Democratic lawmakers, a group of state treasurers, and interest groups have all urged the Fed to help municipalities more directly.
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Voters can also seek out endorsements from sources they trust, such as local newspapers, special interest groups and professional organizations.
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U.S. PIRG, a coalition of public interest groups, said assistance should focus on direct payments to Americans and public health.
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Our sclerotic interest groups were born as idealistic causes then; our repetitive religious and intellectual debates were fresh and new.
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It's hard to remember now, but there was a time in which niche interest groups were exclusive and self-moderating.
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So, it is hardly a surprise that he would undertake actions currying favor with important interest groups and wealthy donors.
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Special interest groups "have spent $212 million to beat us so far," the mayor wrote in a fund-raising email.
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And presidential candidates of both parties have long felt compelled to voice fealty to powerful interest groups in the state.
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Yet there has been no evidence of a national, ideologically motivated rebellion among Democratic primary voters, interest groups or donors.
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Because of that, she wants to see more funds given to defector interest groups that are led by defectors themselves.
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It argued that the protesters' creativity showed the city's prospects if it was not dominated by powerful special interest groups.
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He writes in the show's catalog that fear-mongering media campaigns, supported by various interest groups, have swayed the argument.
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They include the wireless industry, groups representing senior citizens, advocates for people with disabilities and public interest groups like FreePress.
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The inclusion of the protections is a major win for tech interest groups, many of which released laudatory statements Tuesday.
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Environmental questions—whether special interest groups want to admit it or not—involve trade-offs that must be carefully balanced.
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Even so, Congress, career diplomats, interest groups, the media and foreign leaders can help shape, inform and stymie presidential intentions.
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It provokes interest groups and their patrons in Congress into defending programs that will mostly survive, even those that shouldn't.
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Democratic attorneys general, public interest groups and internet companies have all promised to file lawsuits to preserve the 85033 protections.
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The wealthiest people, corporations, and their interest groups participate more in politics, spend more on politics, and lobby governments more.
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Labor advocates and public interest groups said the injury reporting requirements will usher in a new era of workplace transparency.
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They also suggested that various Saudi interest groups were reaching a consensus on how to divide the profit and dividends.
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"His campaign and special interest groups have spent millions of dollars airing ads to spread those same lies," Schultz wrote.
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Democratic attorneys general, public interest groups and internet companies have all promised to file lawsuits to preserve the 2015 protections.
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And 19 different interest groups have formed to promote recreational marijuana in Trenton, while four have set up in opposition.
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In my book, I found that for every $1 spent by public interest groups and unions combined, corporations spent $34.
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Clinton's presidential campaign, raised $25 million during the last reporting period from special interest groups, including $15 million from Wall Street.
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As soon as the nominee is announced, the media attention starts and outside interest groups get to roll up their sleeves.
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If anything, the NRA's complex web of political spending is more pernicious than direct campaign donations from interest groups to politicians.
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So he made his eccentricities, his heterodoxies, and his independence from the party's interest groups and leading politicians a selling point.
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"Being an independent centrist would completely free me from being beholden to special interest groups and extreme party ideologies," Schultz says.
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It's more of an internal document, a series of signals among left interest groups about who has influence and who doesn't.
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For two diametrically opposed interest groups on the liberal-conservative spectrum, the performative aspects of protest on display was scandalously bipartisan.
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The language may be buried within discussions about interest groups, but deciding which groups to prioritize is a strongly ideological one.
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Twelve of the seats go to labour unions and other interest groups, which can be relied upon to support the government.
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Why they matter: Congress always matter, to a point anyway, and they can channel the concerns of interest groups and voters.
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Call me old fashioned, but I like hearing viewers' real thoughts, not the ones special interest groups pay them to tweet.
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Two decades later, healthcare interest groups became a powerful force against government-based universal health care that might jeopardize industry profits.
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National interest groups have perfected the art of drafting cut-and-paste "model" bills, ready to be passed by pliant legislatures.
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Environmental advocates, representatives from local interest groups, and regular citizens who signed up to speak were assigned to the other rooms.
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Conservatives normally want to limit standing, to keep busybody liberal public-interest groups from using lawsuits to compel agencies to regulate.
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Deals are reported before legislators even know about them, which gives activists and interest groups time to mobilize and kill them.
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She was speaking about the influence of special interest groups who advocate for a strong relationship between the U.S. and Israel.
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Politicians may be unable to impose the necessary reforms without losing the backing of the interest groups keeping them in power.
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Public interest groups are alleging that major phone carriers violated privacy laws by sharing their customers' location data without their permission.
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Attorneys general in nearly two-dozen states, joined by public interest groups and internet companies, have sued to overturn the repeal.
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It's always been easier for progressive public interest groups to bring on big firms as amicus counsel than for conservative groups.
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Both parties, he argued, had sold themselves out to corporate money and were under the control of K Street interest groups.
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She has said she thinks the proposal has flaws but is under pressure from public interest groups to vote for it.
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The Clinton counter-attack, backed aggressively by liberal interest groups, comes as she and Sanders battle furiously ahead of the Feb.
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Last week, a coalition of public interest groups asked a federal court to block the UHF discount from going into effect.
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Courts may not look kindly upon these efforts however, and public interest groups are likely to sue over weakened regulations. 5.
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Starting in 2010, automakers worked together with federal agencies, the State of California and public interest groups to design these standards.
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Clinton rejected the suggestion that giving six-figure speeches to Goldman Sachs and other special interest groups had hurt her candidacy.
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That effort followed decades of legislation meant to expose special-interest groups seeking to take an outsize role in American politics.
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He didn't, as Pelosi did, work to get key interest groups like pharma, the insurance companies, and the AARP on board.
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The F.D.A. has long been criticized by public interest groups for refusing to reveal company information that could affect public safety.
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And additionally I try to have a lot of meetings with government, parties, interest groups, business associations, with others as well.
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As a result, we&aposll need to defend our industry, advocate for entrepreneurs, and differentiate ourselves from other special interest groups.
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The typical explanation, one frequently used by politicians and elected officials, is to blame the outsize influence of rich interest groups.
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I am furious that a few loudmouthed interest groups force the rest of us to raise generations of children in fear.
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Doing so as an independent centrist would completely free me from being beholden to special interest groups and extreme party ideologies.
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With the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before Congress, some have accused special-interest groups of weakening aviation safety.
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AARP and other special-interest groups employ alarmist half-truths and gin up hysteria to promote their self-serving political agendas.
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The deal has sparked opposition from various sides, including Democrats, public-interest groups, cable companies and even rival conservative media outlets.
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Both ended up settling with the public interest groups, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, that had sued them.
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There will certainly be organized demonstrations outside the convention hall by interest groups opposed to some of the planks as well.
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In a nation with two parties, each of which encompasses a broad, sometimes conflicting array of interest groups, priorities periodically shift.
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I find it hard to believe she'll do anything for me after taking all this money from these special interest groups.
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But what matters most is whether the changes are better for the United States over all, not for special-interest groups.
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But an electoral system designed to help smaller parties - 81 are standing for election - has given greater room for interest groups.
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Donors, organized interest groups, and larger political trends will determine the fate of carbon policy, not broad (and shallow) public opinion.
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Such mechanisms are benign compared with what happens when well-funded interest groups use the state as an ATM to enrich themselves.
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I think there's a lot of opportunity to kind of micro-segment around interest groups, because today the way the feed's oriented.
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Though fundraising does not guarantee success, interest groups' preferred candidates have become increasingly successful once limits on their spending were effectively removed.
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Real net neutrality legislation should be bipartisan and have input from other stakeholders, including the user community, public interest groups, and industry.
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They and other interest groups are embedded in Hong Kong's political system, and they use their privileged positions to protect their interests.
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But more than that, I'd have thought I understood the circumstances under which a powerful coalition of interest groups could be defeated.
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Democrats highlighted cases on which Gorsuch has ruled and questioned the influence of conservative interest groups in advising Trump on his selection.
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I think the political decay comes in when those interest groups really use their power to veto things not in their interest.
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Any serious attempt to transform the country could put Lourenço on a collision course with senior party figures and powerful interest groups.
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Traditionally, transition teams turn to trusted advisors, trade and professional associations, and public interest groups to identify nominees for key agency positions.
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A FCC spokesperson declined to comment on the public interest groups' letter or the status of the agency's inquiry into zero-rating.
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Some names being discussed internally — Kellyanne Conway, Jason Miller, and several people in senior positions at major interest groups or P.R. firms.
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Public interest groups that aggressively oppose Pai's repeal plan showed up in force outside of the FCC Thursday to protest the decision.
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Democrats and interest groups vehemently condemned the Republican proposal to replace parts of Obamacare, after the bill passed the House on Thursday.
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Ranchers and interest groups such as the National Cattlemen's Beef Association have long wanted the ability to sell wild horses for slaughter.
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He attacked the political class on Monday for being the country's "big problem" and blamed interest groups for impeding him from governing.
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Interest groups participate in the confirmation hearing process for a variety of reasons, though derailing the appointment is not one of them.
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Can interest groups now use the confirmation process to funnel public pressure on ObamaCare repeal, immigration reform and investigations on Russian hacking?
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In response to McConnell's Weekly Standard interview, liberal senators and interest groups issued statements urging Republicans not to change the blue slip.
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If the deal runs afoul of liberal interest groups, backing it could be a major mistake ahead of the 2020 primary season.
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A coalition of public interest groups urged the next president to defend rules protecting net neutrality in a platform released on Monday.
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The third measure would aim to limit special interest groups' ability to push federal agencies to adopt regulations under pressure from litigation.
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This time, Abbot will meet with school officials, mental health experts and interest groups that advocate for and against gun control measures.
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Most of the efforts by special interest groups fail; they are much more likely to kill an initiative than get one passed.
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Cicilline referenced a letter sent by nine public interest groups to the FTC earlier Wednesday asking the agency to block the deal.
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The two public interest groups — Public Citizen and the Natural Resource DefenseCouncil (NRDC) — make a sound argument that these are irrational requirements.
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Republicans said they're already being bombarded by an onslaught of lobbyists and special-interest groups hellbent on protecting their favored tax breaks.
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The political vacuum and unhealthy competition among different interest groups have resulted in dire consequences of instability and the emergence of terror.
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In the case of repealing a regulation, they are likely to be sued by public interest groups that supported the regulation initially.
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Serving alongside some of the most seasoned professionals in the Senate, I helped shape legislation, met with interest groups and staffed Sen.
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She still inspires loyalty from some Argentines who supported her challenging of powerful interest groups and expressions of solidarity with the poor.
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Public interest groups have been on a months-long crusade to block the FACT Act as it has moved through the House.
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Hillary Clinton must juggle three competing interest groups: her party's upscale pro-trade, globalist wing; its underdog minority wing; and organized labor.
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So too is the Clinton campaign's governing blueprint, which calls for the enactment of almost every proposal advocated by liberal interest groups.
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Special interest groups don't see Democrats and Republicans, they only see members of Congress pins, and potential ways to spread their influence.
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But since then, opposition has fragmented into much smaller interest groups, Mr. Downing said, including religious groups that schedule prayers around sunrise.
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But it could also provide vocal interest groups a bully pulpit from which to pressure politicians and bureaucrats with their fringe agendas.
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Reform has been backed by a strange-bedfellows alliance of conservative and progressive interest groups and many big-city law enforcement officials.
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Democrats and public interest groups are worried that the Trump administration is hiding important information about possible wrongdoing and stonewalling potential critics.
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The long game: Public interest groups and Silicon Valley companies are among those who are suing over the repeal of the rules.
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But in a community known for bitter infighting, achieving consensus among the many different interest groups could prove to be a challenge.
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Both have associations with alienated whites, and so can be safely demonized without offending powerful monied interest groups or the liberal commentariat.
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Just off a disastrous defeat by an ex-entertainer, a losing candidate who ran with appeals to a collection of interest groups.
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Leaders from other nations (including the Pope), elected officials, interest groups and business leaders, made this a difficult decision for the president.
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We allow those interest groups to wage a pitched battle using all the money and influence they can muster against one another.
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And these deals would be subject to up-or-down votes, reducing the ability of interest groups to buy themselves special treatment.
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Part of how the president gets anything done is winning over his party's elected officials, interest groups, and assorted other power brokers.
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And if offices hear from only deep-pocketed interest groups, they are likely to miss out on the opinions of ordinary Americans.
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A few months later, Coelho was made House Majority Whip, and Nides became his liaison with outside interest groups—business, labor, environmental.
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In truth, United Russia represents a broad coalition of interest groups ranging from business leaders to nationalists, social conservatives and trade unionists.
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The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the party's most prominent donors, courting conservative interest groups and carefully enhancing their profiles.
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With respect to federal lands, however, lawsuits have become a way for private interest groups to push their agendas and stall progress.
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Reform is backed by a strange-bedfellows alliance of conservative and progressive interest groups and by many big-city law enforcement officials.
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Warren's actions were praised by public interest groups which have been leading the fight for severance for the Toys "R" Us workers.
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But dozens of public interest groups — environmentalists, labor unions, consumer watchdogs — have weighed in on the potential threat to Americans' well-being.
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Tribal governments' special political status is not that of a racial or ethnic group, nor are we associations, affiliations or interest groups.
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Public interest groups are pushing lawmakers to pull the best provisions from House and Senate bills reforming the nation's toxic chemical laws.
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A coalition of public interest groups urged the next president to defend rules protecting net neutrality in a platform released on Monday.
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But public interest groups, seeking to protect workers, consumers and public health, can barely afford the more streamlined procedures in effect today.
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Germany: A panel of various interest groups laid out a plan to end the country's use of coal power within two decades.
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An imperial presidency that alternately aggresses on behalf of liberal and conservative interest groups will continue to erode constraints on presidential power.
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A decade ago, he said, fossil-fuel backed interest groups poured money into convincing the public that climate change was not real.
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Leaders of the various interest groups in the caucus released a rare joint statement acknowledging the dispute and vowing to move forward.
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Special interest groups such as Share Our Strength and a coalition of state governors say child hunger will spread as a result.
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A consequence of this is that members become dependent on interest groups not just for money but for actual knowledge and information.
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Shortly after, internet companies and public interest groups sued to overturn the action, which was led by Ajit Pai, the agency's chairman.
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It has to please a diverse range of interest groups, from environmental justice to labor to climate, without alienating any of them.
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One of the main reasons special interest groups exert so much influence over the legislative process isn't just that they have money.
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He pressured an EPA employee to conduct a job search for his wife among lobbyists, wealthy GOP donors, and special interest groups.
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It would let McCaskill join hands with Donald Trump to do something that labor unions and other Democratic interest groups also like.
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In a blog post on Monday, Reda applauded the special interest groups that are waking up to the inherent problems in the bill.
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Business-friendly regulators run every agency, doling out favors to interest groups and rolling back critical protections for labor, consumers, and the environment.
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A right-leaning "troika" of powerful interest groups had been working steadily for years to consolidate their power over a majority of states.
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As a quasi-government institution, MUI is often used by the government, any political parties or interest groups for their own political purposes.
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But it could also provide vocal interest groups with a bully pulpit from which to pressure politicians and bureaucrats with their fringe agendas.
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Those rules will be in place temporarily while the Education Department gathers comments from interest groups and the public and writes new guidance.
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These organizations court interest groups and rich donors, some of whom want the influence that political money brings but not the public accountability.
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The weaknesses of the coalition deal—a visionless shopping list dominated by handouts for various favoured, and differentially deserving, interest groups—epitomise this.
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Striking new findings are publicised by researchers and their institutions, promoted by like-minded interest groups and politicians, and amplified by social media.
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They also believe strong leadership is needed to push through market reforms, resisted by special interest groups in the state-enterprise dominated economy.
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Today, FCs include those for the Insurance, Tourism, and Textiles and Garment industries, as well as 25 other business or special interest groups.
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DeVos, a charter school and school choice supporter, has been sharply criticized by some education special interest groups and pro-public school organizations.
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Interest groups fight tooth-and-nail to hold onto concessions they've been granted, from tax credits for solar panels to subsidies for ethanol.
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In Denmark, the debate over whether or not prison inmates are entitled to an education has riled up politicians, researchers, and interest groups.
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It's just, let's stipulate, being foolish, or it's refusing to attend to costs and benefits, or it's in the grips of interest groups.
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This week, as they did last week in Cleveland, hundreds of interest groups and lobbyists will be in Philadelphia for the presidential convention.
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The effects are straightforward: politicians must devote time and access to special interest groups, donors and lobbyists when they should be serving constituents.
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Exxon's recommended vote: No. It highlighted "the potential risk for the proposal to increase the influence of special interest groups" on the board.
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It's time that we stand up to outside interest groups and fight for what's right for our people, our culture and our communities.
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The national Democratic and Republican parties are coalitions of factions and interest groups oriented around competing views of the world, society, and governance.
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But that supposes that its constituent interest groups continue to see the Democratic Party as the best way to get what they want.
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Pai has argued that the FCC's policy has caused a decrease in broadband capital investment, but public interest groups strongly dispute that claim.
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Pai has argued that the FCC's policy has caused a decrease in broadband capital investment, but public interest groups vigorously dispute that assertion.
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Unfortunately, the voices of these policy experts have been drowned out by the interest groups lined up to lobby against the Cadillac tax.
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Voters have a right to know which government contractors and special interest groups create a pay-for-play system by using secret donations.
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It would cause even greater harm to citizens, interest groups, and other stakeholders who have an enormous amount at stake in these bills.
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Distrust of government has lent power to the extremes, which are propped up by passionate bases and corresponding media and special interest groups.
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More commonly, however, politicians will cater to special interest groups that can raise a ruckus, or piles of cash, or increase voter turnout.
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For example, outside stakeholders and interest groups attempting to educate Congress about issues and promote bipartisan coalitions should view them as useful allies.
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Butina developed high-profile and discoverable links to interest groups dominated by Republicans, including Paul Erickson, a conservative consultant and Republican political operative.
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The activity from big-money interest groups on both the right and left has also underscored the national attention on the special election.
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Opposing them were 18 states that support the rule and dozens of environmental and public interest groups, as well as the Obama administration.
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Supporters across the country often say his financial independence appeals to them because they believe he can't be bought by special interest groups.
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They face a daunting choice: defend the interests of donors and interest groups or actually pass a major bill they can campaign on.
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The president and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price will spend the week courting conservative leaders, special-interest groups and other stakeholders.
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The separate report shows that Russians working at IRA divided Americans into key interest groups in order to target messaging, the Post reported.
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Rather than serving a swarm of interest groups, they could focus on the essential, demanding the simple metrics and deadlines that force accountability.
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After decades of 'benign neglect,' pressure from special interest groups will probably push Congress to impose a fiscal control board on the Commonwealth.
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Business and interest groups Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expressed regret over Trump's decision on Twitter and said he would exit Trump's economic councils.
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If you happen to be a government agency in a democracy, that means reassembling ecosystems based on the desires of competing interest groups.
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Public interest groups and consumer advocates responded with fury to the bill, which was approved by the GOP-controlled House along party lines.
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The Federal Communications Commission acted decisively last year to protect the internet's open, freewheeling nature, in a landmark victory for public interest groups.
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The FCC declined to comment on the public interest groups' letter, but the agency's silence on the matter will not last for long.
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Other special interest groups that typically mobilized to elect Republicans stayed home, while growing numbers of conservative journalists and GOP office holders recoiled.
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Instead, it spends its time appealing to urban special interest groups with "identity politics," such politically correct fripperies as multigender bathrooms and microaggressions.
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The problem is that these arguments are often one-sided — for every $1 spent by public interest groups and unions, corporations spend $34.
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Voters come to depend on benefits, politicians are expected to protect them, and interest groups emerge that have a stake in their continuation.
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Other conservative interest groups the Judicial Crisis Network and Americans for Prosperity are also targeting Democratic senators in red states with ad buys.
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Kaval has to unify the team, the city and county governments, public agencies, interest groups and residents behind his vision for the park.
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" Republican leaders warned on Thursday that interest groups would attack the bill and said they would resist efforts to keep things "status quo.
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Presidents compete with numerous actors — Congress, the courts, interest groups, political appointees in the departments and agencies, and career civil servants — for influence.
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MORE (R-Wis.) in his prepared remarks, accusing him of allowing health maintenance organizations and other special interest groups to influence key policies.
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But seniors groups, long considered among the most powerful interest groups on Capitol Hill, have also led the charge in denouncing the AHCA.
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And with the lobbyists and donations from special interest groups under scrutiny, campaigns also are careful to not appear too cozy with lobbyists.
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"Continuing to build an effective post-crisis market regulator will mean imposing measures that sometimes draw sharp outcry from interest groups," she said.
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For several years, the company has been talking with supporters, opponents, lawmakers and special interest groups about how to work better with cities.
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So did business interest groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Computer and Communications Industry Association and the American Chemistry Council.
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They risk becoming targets of interest groups, media outlets and rival politicians who see their role as enforcing symbolic commitment to conservative orthodoxy.
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Public interest groups that have aggressively oppose Pai's proposed initiative showed up in force outside of the FCC Thursday to protest the decision.
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Business groups and conservative interest groups pledged to try again to enact it in Missouri, potentially as soon as the 2019 legislative session.
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Most agricultural interest groups have supported the Trump administration's recognition that retaliation is hurting farm businesses but have pushed for longer-term clarity.
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Some conservative interest groups and media outlets have raised concerns that Loeffler does not pass certain ideological litmus tests, particularly on abortion. Rep.
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Eighty-two percent nationally said campaign contributions from corporations, special interest groups and individuals directly influence the decisions that most elected officials make.
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"Tribal co-management," a term adamantly pushed often by special interest groups and environmentalists, was found nowhere in the original Bears Ears proclamation.
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Age, a terrible showing, or simply an inability to connect with donors or interest groups seem likely to send them in different directions.
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ActBlue said it helped raise $1.6 billion in the 2017-18 election cycle, including money it collects for interest groups and state candidates.
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The variety of interest groups involved in the decision, and the fate of state efforts like the Missouri law, all muddy the waters.
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Those efforts are proceeding slowly, along with multiple lawsuits filed last week by more than 20 state attorneys general and public interest groups.
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U.S. corporations, interest groups, states and cities will all temper the moves made by the federal government, particularly on climate and trade matters.
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At Google, employees can choose from hundreds of interest groups like juggling clubs and a cappella groups, Google's version of college extracurricular activities.
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Thus, the mad scramble of big Republican interest groups to protects a Roberts Five that will reliably give them wins, really big wins sometimes.
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The group's latest TV ad attempts to describe the one-term congresswoman as someone who is bought and paid for by special interest groups.
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ActBlue is an online technology fundraising organization that helps Democrats running for office, liberal interest groups and fundraising committees raise money through the internet.
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Starting soon after the election, anti-abortion interest groups like March for Life met with members of the White House to discuss the issue.
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These same interest groups have speculated that Judge Kavanaugh was selected to do the bidding of conservative ideologues despite his record of judicial Independence.
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They fear that when he meets with legislators or interest groups that he'll promise them too much — or change the terms under discussion altogether.
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But a lot has changed, including the partisan polarization in Congress and in the broader society, as well as the rise of interest groups.
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Another example of short-term interest: groups parachuting into a community before an election to rally the base around a dramatic local environmental plight.
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In dealing with members of Congress and interest groups, temperament is essential, particularly in the tough and brutal partisan world in which we live.
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" He cited them as evidence that the agency's policy was being controlled by "powerful special interest groups that advocate on behalf of illegal aliens.
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Moreover, this bill didn't have any public hearings — a practice that some on the left argue is beneficial for lobbyists and special interest groups.
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That cannot mean leaving that research to outside interest groups, or passing off that responsibility to young, "connected" staffers who know how to Snapchat.
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And for those interest groups with weak ties to the newly-elected president, they had little recourse and few opportunities to offer alternative advice.
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Instead, interest groups seem to use confirmation hearings to build a relationship with the presumptive Cabinet official and cement a direction for agency policymaking.
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Confirmation hearings, then, are a way for interest groups to gather information for future lobbying on policy and for internal communication with group members.
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This mixture of interest groups had proved pretty successful: it held the White House for 22020 of the 40 years from 1969 to 2008.
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"Without these rules, ISPs could use and disclose customer information at will," a coalition of public interest groups recently wrote to Capitol Hill leaders.
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He didn't force me to frame my support of him around a subject matter that special interest groups that support him can get behind.
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No Republicans voted for the bill, and though interest groups really did oppose repeal measures last year, the political onslaught is not exactly ferocious.
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Both tend to miss how powerful interest groups (often local ones) can distort markets, creating rules to benefit their members at the public's expense.
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Public interest groups, meanwhile, have blasted the tie-up because it could concentrate too much power over media content and distribution in one company.
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"Special interest groups, fueled by hidden funders with deep pockets and skin in the political game, are now focused on influencing redistricting," Moser wrote.
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A group of nearly two-dozen Internet service providers, wireless carriers and public interest groups sent a letter Tuesday supporting the plan, with reforms.
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It won more praise from social services interest groups such as teacher's unions and child welfare advocates than did some of Brown's initial budgets.
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The Blue Dogs said they have started inviting interest groups and bipartisan policy experts to meetings, and they asked stakeholders to share their ideas.
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Their visits highlight how countries, interest groups and companies impacted by the Trump administration's choices have patronized the President's private business, the newspaper noted.
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Public interest groups are concerned about controversial provisions in the budget — known as policy riders — that could roll back health, environment and safety protections.
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McConnell added the felon ban to appease concerns he received from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the administration and outside interest groups, according to Politico.
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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, more than 2202,2628 different interest groups paid millions to lobby Congress on 28500 tax reform proposals alone.
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The shift, while fiercely opposed by some conservative lawmakers and interest groups, had surprisingly broad support among Republican leaders and women in both parties.
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If this trend continues, trade policy will end up being decided by interest groups with enough access to influence and game the political system.
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Conservative lawmakers and business interest groups feared the report would hurt lucrative real estate development on the state's coast and sought to undermine it.
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Public interest groups say the "Controlling the Unchecked and Reckless Ballooning of Lifeline Act of 2016," or CURB Act, which was introduced by Rep.
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More than anything else, this basic logic can help explain why Washington has many narrow business lobbying groups but few broad public interest groups.
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Obama's major legislative achievements were passed, in part, thanks to a willingness to accept grubby compromises with interest groups rather than by beating them.
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What it has become is a political battleground, another reminder that when competing interest groups try to dictate energy policy, the truth becomes cloudy.
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These same interest groups have speculated that Judge Kavanaugh was selected to do the bidding of conservative ideologues, despite his record of judicial independence.
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Strong interest groups in the Philippines want to keep those trade barriers, including wealthy families that own companies that benefit from limiting foreign competition.
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In 2006, when he announced his retirement, Professor Verba said he hoped to continue to study the role of interest groups in American politics.
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Interest groups and politicians called for an investigation and for better training of social workers and judges in recognizing potential sexual abuse of children.
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What allowed these market liberal views to gain hegemony was, above all, the offensive that business undertook against labor unions and public interest groups.
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The answer is simple: it is because of the stranglehold that special interest groups, like the National Rifle Association, have on our political system.
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And make no mistake: There is no clearer example of unbalanced political power in Washington than interest groups operating in the name of veterans.
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The conservative movement is a strong and vibrant force in national politics, and left-wing interest groups are relatively weak inside the Democratic Party.
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I assume the motive for retaining these two deductions is to placate various interest groups such as the real estate industry and religious institutions.
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And no force in American politics is stronger — more aggressive or better organized — than the narrow little interest groups that comprise the Democratic coalition.
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The cause of South Korea's comfort women has fallen hostage not only to nationalistic interest groups, but also to the country's fractious domestic politics.
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Beijing's allies have a majority in the legislature because half the 70 seats are selected by interest groups mostly loyal to the mainland government.
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Interest groups in the agricultural sector -- a key constituency for Republicans who hail from rural states -- argue that they have a shortage of workers.
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And outside groups more than doubled the amount in play for the race -- as super PACs and other interest groups have flooded the zone.
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That may ultimately doom enactment since too much weight attached to a legislative proposal can make it unpalatable to one or more interest groups.
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They fear that when he meets with legislators or interest groups that he'll promise them too much – or change the terms under discussion altogether.
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We don't want our sovereign citizens targeted to that degree by anyone — dishwashing detergent firms, political parties, special interest groups — it's too much influence.
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But let's not forget that the dark money of corporations, billionaires and special-interest groups has influenced our elections to a far greater extent.
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Like many Hill staffers, he wrote legislation, offered advice, met with lobbyists and public interest groups, and attended meetings on press and policy strategy.
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Traditionally one of the most powerful special interest groups in Washington, the NRA almost always opposes proposals to strengthen gun control laws or regulations.
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Negative coverage of Tesla has *nothing* to do with journalists sitting down and weighing the ad dollars their employer gets from various interest groups.
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So I don't think you're going to get any diminution in commitment from a lot of these interest groups, advocacy groups, and justice groups.
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The win ends up so overwhelming, and is validated by so many different party officials and interest groups, that the outcome feels undeniably legitimate.
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The House committee has complained the inquiries risk stifling free speech and scientific inquiry, and that state officials were coordinating with special interest groups.
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Within hours of Justice Scalia's death, both sides began laying the groundwork for what could be a titanic confirmation struggle fueled by ideological interest groups.
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Not only are interest groups better equipped post-Citizens United to reject the formal party, but they have been more effective when they've done so.
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There are plenty of interest groups, but only one definition of "best interest" that matters — the one an advisor and a client agree on together.
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Many organizations have task forces, interest groups, and volunteer groups for those who wish to have a say in their firm's future, according to Won.
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With a general election due by October 2019, the government could roll back even more reforms in order to win the support of interest groups.
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Of the 70 members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, half represent "functional constituencies", composed mostly of local industries, professions, trade unions and other interest groups.
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The bottom line is that we need politicians to stand up and fight back against the corporate special interest groups that are compromising our future.
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The latest version of Trumpcare has also raised the ire of important health care interest groups who now have time to lobby against the bill.
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The rest of the legislators are picked by labour unions and other government-approved interest groups, or appointed by the territory's chief executive, Fernando Chui.
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One benefit of such a system is that it might thwart lobbyists, special interest groups, and backroom government dealings by keeping politicians far more honest.
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They don't increase government revenue, they don't spend money on government-selected interest groups, and they have been endorsed by a number of conservative economists.
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The bottom line: Net neutrality backers, which includes public interest groups and tech companies, want to see the repeal struck down — restoring regulations from 2015.
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A CoreCivic statement says activists are distorting the company&aposs role in immigration detention with "wrong and politically motivated" information shared by special interest groups.
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Ukraine's SOEs exemplify the crooked relationship between business and government: interest groups in parliament install "loyal" managers who funnel cash to oligarchs and political parties.
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At that point, the two biggest interest groups in the Democratic Party that hadn't yet got to serve at the top were blacks and women.
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But it was also a symptom of mounting unrest, revealing that each of the party's interest groups sought a stronger hand to steer the coalition.
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Public interest groups often dispute studies from the American Action Forum, which they say do not accurately take into account the economic benefits of regulations.
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The EPA also denied requests to attend from people who had drank water contaminated by chemicals as well as public interest groups, the Intercept reported.
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Public interest groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that names Google, which owns YouTube, and several companies that produce the marketing content.
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The public interest groups have previously argued that YouTube, and its YouTube Kids product, in particular, doesn't do enough to protect children from harmful advertising.
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Wade and deprive women of the right to make their own health care choices, and then outsourced his selection process to far-right interest groups.
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At the outset, trade negotiators must solicit input from the House and Senate committees that oversee their work, as well as interest groups and activists.
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Planning 2.0 is about transparency in the process and all concerned can get involved, from local citizens to tribal communities, nonresidents to national interest groups.
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Obama, though his surrogates, also insisted upon unity among the often-at-odds collection of interest groups who were seeking specific attributes in a nominee.
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Public interest groups say that net neutrality is necessary to maintain the internet as an open platform for free speech, economic growth, and civic empowerment.
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A separate GOP-backed budget amendment that public interest groups warned could severely undermine the program was also withdrawn in the face of fierce opposition.
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Can they be faulted for wishing that just once the help would avoid creating new ways for interest groups to become addicted to government spending?
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To maintain their continued access to malleable illegal labor, agricultural interest groups needed to ensure that nearly all of IRCA's enforcement promises would go unfulfilled.
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So there IS a careful rollout plan that includes presidential travel to Indiana and outreach to interest groups with a big stake in the debate.
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Interest groups issue key vote alerts to let lawmakers know they will be assessing their records based on how they vote on a particular bill.
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Texas can also learn from California, which has organized doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and public interest groups in a collaborative to focus on maternal mortality.
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Misinformation and sheer sophistry is being pushed out to vast audiences, not only by national political parties and interest groups, but also by foreign entities.
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The Clean Power Plan, along with many of Obama's other executive actions, faces a string of legal challenges from states and deep-pocketed interest groups.
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Emadi said Thursday he expects to subpoena bank and finance records for the Abrams campaign and several associated political action committees and special interest groups.
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Lawmakers and interest groups are often at odds on policies to curb mass shootings, suggesting strategies varying from increased mental health evaluations to arming teachers.
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He doesn't check all the boxes Washington interest groups want checked when they're huddling with the party leaders who define the agenda on Capitol Hill.
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On Friday, the EPA named dozens of new members to its science advisory boards, including state officials and representatives from oil companies and interest groups.
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Throughout his first White House bid, Trump argued that his wealth allowed him to avoid relying on special-interest groups and establishment donors for contributions.
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That is, 7.4 percent of variation in policy outcomes is determined by the measured views of the rich, the poor, and interest groups put together.
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Can we easily imagine an America today in which Abenakis and other Indians are powerful interest groups and the best medical advice comes from Africa?
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Public interest groups say the FCC's policy is necessary to maintain the internet as an open platform for free speech, economic growth, and civic empowerment.
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It took two years of painstaking rewrites — and lots of complaints from special interest groups — to get it through Congress and onto the president's desk.
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently said he'd support a fee or fund to help such drivers struggling financially, though taxi interest groups were not impressed.
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In the 1990s, McCain took on special-interest groups like the tobacco industry, and pushed for raising cigarette taxes to pay for anti-smoking campaigns.
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Proponents of the three Californias measure say the state government has become too beholden to special interest groups and unions and needs a fresh start.
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Some of these groups have just a few dozen members, while others appear to be general-interest groups that aren't affiliated with any one church.
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In a Corporation for Public Broadcasting balance hearing for interest groups with a stake in the show, conservative groups came down hard on the show.
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Politics makes hydrogen a perfect bridge between otherwise opposed interest groups, including fossil fuel producers and renewable energy industries, environmental campaigners and oil-exporting countries.
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Competing visions, not to mention competing interest groups, are likely to make the passage of tax measures more difficult and drawn out that many anticipate.
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In Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislation.
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In fact, the biggest critics of NEPA have been special interest groups that want as little government oversight as possible as their companies pursue profits.
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Key GOP-leaning interest groups are thrilled, of course, because Trump in office can give them the tax cuts and business-friendly regulation they crave.
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The rest of the electorate did not understand politics as a fight over abstract theories of good government but rather a conflict between interest groups.
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Green interest groups are pouring money into House and Senate races, in many cases delivering attacks on Republicans that their Democratic rivals may shy from.
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Powerful liberal interest groups, including much of organized labor, are also hanging back, which only prompts the politicians to believe it's safer to remain mum.
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" Decades later, the Trump campaign likewise united different interest groups, which felt they had been "left behind," around vague feelings of grievance against "the establishment.
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I will not be beholden to corporations, lobbyists or special interest groups, and I will not stand by while those groups attack my political allies.
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In 1992, as a candidate, Bill Clinton went out of his way to prove that he was not beholden to black politicians and interest groups.
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The president's own former deputy chief of staff secretly sounded out liberal interest groups about going to Mr. Clinton to pressure him to step down.
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Little is done about the inappropriate spending, because special-interest groups always protect their turf through their hired guns scattered throughout our system of government.
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I will not be beholden to corporations, lobbyists, or special interest groups and I will not stand by while those groups attack my political allies.
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The key to victory was the "invisible primary"—winning over major donors, interest groups, and elected officials in the year before the actual voting began.
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"I mean, these kind of examples are everywhere," he said, pointing to street protests by caste and other interest groups seeking quotas for government jobs.
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The suspension of all three taxes was lauded by interest groups opposed to them, who vowed to seek their full repeal before they take effect.
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Even though the plan was met with some criticism, Potter praised Warren's overall policy, particularly her reputation for taking on special interest groups in Washington.
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The platform was produced by major public interest groups in Washington, including Free Press, Common Cause and Public Knowledge, as well as other progressive organizations.
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And traditionally, a candidate's slate of delegates from a given state will draw heavily from the ranks of local politicians and politician-aligned interest groups.
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The final law passed by Congress gave the food, biotechnology, retail and farming industries a win and left some environmental and public interest groups disappointed.
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Various presidential candidates are thought to have been bought off by private interest groups from countries like Turkey, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
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The TPP has a WTO-style dispute settlement process, and a variety of interest groups pushed to have their pet issues addressed in the treaty.
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A third fact is that public opinion matters — if you're going to override the interest groups, you're going to need the public on your side.
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That will make it more appealing for advocates and interest groups to push for executive action instead of (or in addition to) their legislative agendas.
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Jon Ladd makes the case that major liberal interest groups and activists (whichever presidential candidate they support) still see themselves as part of a party coalition.
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Yesterday's tribunes of the people, or at least of the people's leading interest groups, have been replaced by professionals who make their livelihood out of politics.
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For interest groups attempting to gather US support for the Allies, the incident became a rallying cry, as is evident in Fred Spear's poster "Enlist" (1915).
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In addition, after the Obamacare repeal bill was introduced Monday night, a meeting was called with a variety of players representing interest groups and conservative organizations.
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Some interest groups and Democratic lawmakers argued that it constituted a ban based on religion after Trump's rhetoric at points during his presidential campaign targeted Muslims.
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" After the vote, outgoing Republican Governor Pat McCrory blamed "well-funded left-wing interest groups" that he said "sabotaged bipartisan good faith agreements for political purposes.
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Public-interest groups have protested industry consolidation, saying it has led to high prices and will give big companies the power to undermine online video rivals.
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You can see which candidates or special interest groups are targeting people in your state, age range, or those with your, or anyone else's, political views.
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Whatever the problem is, the Trump administration has not conveyed any information about it to the public, to interest groups, or to allies on the Hill.
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The sensitivity of the topic also makes it easy for interest groups to manipulate the questions to get the kinds of answers that suit their cause.
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And while they can be helpful in aiding interest groups and candidates in honing their messaging, they are rarely useful in predicting how people will vote.
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During one debate scene, Dobbs fights with the other candidates about immigration, oil, and the less-than-scrupulous ties politicians often have to special interest groups.
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The report sticks with the underlying philosophy of antitrust in America and Britain—that the consumer should come first, rather than suppliers or other interest groups.
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There has been no definition for what qualifies as a BRI project, allowing interest groups within and outside China to attach their agendas to the BRI.
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"In general, China's reforms always slow down if such reforms hurt vested interest groups – the same in the stock market and the housing market," he added.
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"For companies that want to go public, there's a long list of negatives: Painful corporate governance, focus on compensation, public interest groups get involved ..." Dimon said.
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What to watch: The need to absorb large reductions in Medicaid will pit cabinet agencies, legislative committees and interest groups against one another in some states.
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While fact sheets and details have been released to different lawmakers and interest groups, an administration official said Thursday that they are still finalizing the policy.
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But in order to preserve access to cheap labor, special interest groups oppose sanctions, and do everything possible to ensure that the law is not enforced.
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Speaker Joe Straus (R) has cited concerns raised by business interest groups, which warn that the measure will cost Texas billions of dollars in economic activity.
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Returning control of our environment to the states also limits the dark money from self-serving lobbyists and deep-pocketed special interest groups masquerading as environmentalists.
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Four dozen companies, trade organizations and interest groups are announcing Friday a broad coalition pitching technology that captures carbon emissions from an array of industrial facilities.
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"We know that big donors, that the NRA, the Koch Brothers, that all of these special interest groups actually own Republican members of Congress," she said.
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The movement to reinterpret or change antimonopoly laws is running headlong into a legal community and interest groups just as invested in defending the status quo.
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This ensures that all the economic classes and interest groups have a voice, and encourages the compromises needed to keep social peace as the economy evolves.
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To begin with, Hersh said, Democrats and liberals have been more willing to share key voter lists between candidates, parties and interest groups than Republicans have.
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Some of that intrigue centers on Mr. Ho, as scholars and publishers wonder how he manages to walk a fine line between China's contentious interest groups.
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Democrats have prepared briefing books of more than 1,000 pages on McConnell, whose long record and ties to Washington interest groups provide ripe openings for attack.
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These same analysts meet regularly with visiting representatives of interest groups and firms that rely on the agency's data and analysis in their own decision making.
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She co-chairs the Corporate Reform Coalition, a group of investors, nongovernmental organizations, securities experts and public interest groups in favor of the SEC's disclosure rule.
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There is too much resistance from special interest groups and budget hawks and there is a fear that the tax cuts will be in name only.
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Wednesday, two major public interest groups filed a lawsuit against one of President Trump's executive orders, an order that many people have probably never heard of.
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And it comes as the party's progressive wing has been hammering away at special interest groups and calling for an overhaul of lobbying and ethics rules.
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David Geary, a psychologist at the University of Missouri, told me by email that the practice among liberal interest groups of highlighting group differences, cultures, etc.
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He may not have noticed over his adult lifetime that the president is constantly criticized by political rivals, media organizations, special-interest groups and private citizens.
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"Heidi, stop trying to mislead North Dakota," a narrator says after showing images of three different ads run by either Heitkamp's campaign or outside interest groups.
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Others are embracing calls to crack down on special interest groups' influence on Washington, an issue Trump used to swing voters to his campaign last month.
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Wheeler and his supporters among tech firms and public interest groups say the proposal, if enacted, would increase competition and result in lower prices for consumers.
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On Tuesday, more than 50 firms and public interest groups sent the FCC a letter warning that zero-rating poses a serious threat to internet openness.
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Like any other political party, the modern-day Republican Party is a coalition and the interest groups behind it have different and at times clashing priorities.
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It says something about Washington that special interest groups are outraged when an elected official has the audacity to keep a promise made to actual voters.
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Laws like the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act mandated citizen feedback to new regulations, but Brill argues that interest groups have weaponized due process to guarantee gridlock.
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Ross said he met Census officials and considered arguments for and against the change made by interest groups, members of congress and state and local officials.
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The attack has led to widespread conversations about links between gun violence and mental illness, and how lawmakers and interest groups are debating potential policy responses.
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Democratic politicians have often opposed such a shift, because labor unions and other left-leaning interest groups can benefit from the low turnout in local elections.
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Unlike Britain's main parties, whose leaders have to answer to a vast membership and various interest groups, the Brexit Party is effectively controlled by Mr. Farage.
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The first is to imagine that governments actually do maximize national income, or perhaps an objective function that gives extra weight to well-organized interest groups.
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But the larger problem is the way that party as a whole — elected officials, operatives, leaders of allied interest groups, major donors, graybeard elder statespersons, etc.
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There's a lot we can accomplish if we start as humans -- not as NRA lobbyists or gun control lobbyists, not as special interest groups or politicians.
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Jordan Peele will take any of the money saved by filming in Georgia and put it into interest groups that support the fight against the bill.
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Lobbyists for more influential interest groups say that their bandwidth is being stretched by other issues gaining legislative traction at the same time as tax reform.
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And few interest groups have as much clout among Republican primary voters as the N.R.A. "They have an N.R.A. rating they want to keep," he said.
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"We don't see only a single US any more, but many voices coming from different interest groups," says Mesut Hakki Casin, an adviser to Mr Erdogan.
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On Tuesday, White urged the SEC to resist lobbying by interest groups or other pressures, and to do what is best for investors and the economy.
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In Washington, special interest groups attempt to insert themselves into the proverbial "Good List" to seek taxpayer handouts for their pet projects, whether deserved or not.
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But anyone who abandons the notion of interest groups or big organizations cedes the field of politics to those who understand the unmatched power of institutions.
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The big companies and special interest groups may not like it, but they've reaped record profits from the current system they worked with Democrats to create.
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Ms. Lagarde said elected officials, academic experts and members of public interest groups would be consulted as the bank reviewed the way it conducted monetary policy.
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The bill is backed by online review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor, as well as public interest groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge.
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The case, which pits climate scientists against the free speech rights of global warming skeptics, drew interest from lawmakers, interest groups, academics and media (The Hill).
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Once the rule is formally published in the Federal Register, it will kick off a public comment period for Americans and interest groups to submit feedback.
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" After the vote, outgoing Republican Governor Pat McCrory blamed "well-funded left-wing interest groups" that he said "sabotaged bipartisan good faith agreements for political purposes.
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Those interest groups, not the consumer, decide which plans are available, what those plans cover, which doctors patients can see and how much it will cost.
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While the fees have not been set, some experts believe it could cost about $14, igniting a fight among interest groups to win exemptions or discounts.
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At least three public interest groups - Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press - have said they are preparing to turn to litigation as a last resort.
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Hospitals, insurers and actuaries — bean-counters who make long-range economic estimates — have weighed in, and more interest groups are expected to make their views known soon.
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But it's not enough, the interest groups stressed: The deduction, they complain, is "temporary and too low," and efforts to restrain the deduction's cost go too far.
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But, like some within Trump's own party, international leaders and interest groups are eager for details on how Trump will alter US standing on the world stage.
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Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins argue that the Republican Party is unified by ideology while the Democratic Party is a more pragmatic coalition of interest groups.
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In 2016, it raised about $14.5 million, including donations from companies and conservative interest groups like the Judicial Crisis Network and Koch Industries, according to tax filings.
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They seek endorsements from DNC members, from state party delegations, and also from party interest groups (for instance, big unions) that could influence those DNC members' votes.
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It is rare for the Korean Bar Association, membership of which is mandatory for all local lawyers, to campaign publicly for specific technological or business interest groups.
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Interest groups have an astonishing ability to grind down reformers—look at the way that Mr Clark's reforms of corporate governance have been reduced to almost nothing.
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But Julie Pace of The Associated Press shared her reporting on the intense pressure Clinton faces from Democratic interest groups who don't view Garland as sufficiently liberal.
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In theory, better intermediaries (politicians, parties, interest groups) are capable of helping citizens collectively realize their interests in ways that they wouldn't be able to do individually.
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This is driven by the likes of Apple and Google, as well as by businesses, industries, individuals and interest groups keen to see a particular symbol represented.
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Democrats argue about the positioning and power of various interest groups within their ranks, while Republicans argue about how faithful to be to the principles of conservatism.
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The tax bill Republicans are considering is wildly unpopular with the public and has been lobbied against by key interest groups — and it has no bipartisan support.
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In the post-47 percent age, politicians are so appropriately spooked that private confabs may become public that they take care in crafting remarks to interest groups.
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He spoke at a meeting with interest groups who will support his choice of Gorsuch, who, if confirmed, will restore a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
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There are many powerful interest groups in this country and every one of them has a constitutional right to advocate their views and represent whomever they choose.
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"The Department of Justice will thoroughly scrutinize this transaction after receiving input from a vast range of market participants, government agencies, and public interest groups," they wrote.
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He's painfully learning — as every politician who attempts tax reform inevitably learns — that lawmakers and interest groups won't give up their favored tax breaks without a fight.
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For months, ad interest groups have also been urging lawmakers to reconsider the potential impact a potential "pay-for" tax would have on jobs and economic growth.
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In each state, support for the climate side comes from underfunded citizen and public-interest groups — and for the most part, only the ones inside the state.
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The bills place management authority of millions of acres of land into the hands of governor-appointed individuals and special interest groups, rather than natural resource professionals.
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In addition to other representatives, a variety of interest groups including Planned Parenthood, Voto Latino, VoteVets, and a multitude of religious groups also spoke on the Hill.
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During the Republican primary race, he often told his supporters not to contribute money and ridiculed opponents for accepting cash from special interest groups and wealthy contributors.
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CoreCivic said in a statement to AP that the activists were pushing "wrong and politically motivated" information shared by special interest groups, misinterpreting their ties to ICE.
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Senators would no longer have election committees which would limit the ability of special interest groups to contribute to the candidate's bid for the office of Senator.
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Similarly, as the size and scope of the federal government increases, interest groups will spend more on elections in an effort to influence the levers of government.
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That spending is driven almost entirely by major corporate or special interest groups like labor unions, two factions that often fight to a stalemate in state legislatures.
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If they get bludgeoned by certain interest groups to pull ads from particular shows, they then must vet content of all platforms where their ads are running.
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Meanwhile, well-connected interest groups—especially public-sector unions—have a stranglehold on policy, threatening to derail any politician who tries to change the pension status quo.
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The longer he took to make his decision the more interest groups were able to influence the process, not least because the White House invited them in.
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As a Federal Advisory Committee Act member, I watched interest groups coordinate with politically powerful groups to oppose any regulatory restriction or "right to know" regarding pesticides.
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Political momentum for the bill shifted Tuesday when the National Rifle Association, one of the most powerful special-interest groups in Washington, came out against Collins's bill.
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These donors and the interest groups they support have gained an outsized voice in recent years, and consequently, control the reward and punishment mechanism within the party.
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Ryan's fingerprints were all over the legislation, which faced immediate and fierce pushback from conservative members of his own conference as well as several important interest groups.
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Opponents of the plan said that the FCC didn't understand how the market for high-capacity business internet worked and was being pressued by special interest groups.
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At the same time, the forces that tend to constrict our personal freedoms — states, religions, ethnic identities, economic interest groups and others — are both dissolving and reorganizing.
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Jon Kyl and the law firm Covington & Burling to ask 133 conservative lawmakers and interest groups to tell it whether they think Facebook is biased against conservatives.
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" A Department of the Interior (DOI) spokesperson said in a statement that interest groups are "playing politics at a time when all Americans need to come together.
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One telling sign: Insurance companies, hospitals, doctors and public interest groups like AARP opposed pretty much every proposal the Republicans put out over the last seven months.
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Other dynamics are at work this time around, according to consultants and interest groups who spent heavily last time and have, so far, remained on the sidelines.
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Behind the scenes, Roberts knows something else: there is an abundance of similar laws, pushed boldly by motivated conservative interest groups, making their way to the court.
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Court rulings aren't neutral expressions of legal reasoning but political processes determined by the interactions of involved parties (like judges, attorneys, and interest groups filing amicus briefs).
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Special interest groups and wealthy individuals would not be donating massive amounts to PACs and politicians unless they believed they would receive favorable returns on their investments.
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In winning over the high-tech industry, the party has acquired a constituency at odds with competing Democratic interest groups, especially organized labor and consumer protection proponents.
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The search itself came after strong criticism from Democrats in Congress and some outside interest groups about the lack of diversity at top positions on the Fed.
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We now know that propagandists play off existing ideological divisions to sharpen discord, including by infiltrating bona fide interest groups and mobilizing real-world protests and activism.
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The bill said "foreign interest groups" could use their funding of local NGOs to "pursue their own interests" in Hungary, threatening the country's political and economic interests.
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The $3.9 billion acquisition has generated opposition from an unlikely band of critics that includes cable companies, Democrats, public interest groups and even rival conservative news outlets.
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On the coasts, once far-flung progressive interest groups are now directing policy, and rational thought and political balance are principles relegated to the occasional op-ed.
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The Bloomberg adviser said the mayor is uniquely qualified to pass health care reforms, in part, because he is not taking money from health care interest groups.
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"Rights claims are often aimed more at rewarding interest groups and dividing humanity into subgroups," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed announcing the commission.
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" He continued, "I will not be beholden to corporations, lobbyists, or special interest groups and I will not stand by while those groups attack my political allies.
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It tends to involve taking something from influential interest groups — taxing the rich, for example (as Obamacare did), or reducing some companies' profits or hurting professional guilds.
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And influxes of money into the political system, through super PACs and outside groups, have left many voters convinced their voices matter less than special interest groups.
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The opposition is also a powerful reminder of how many past efforts to overhaul the American health care system failed because of resistance by major interest groups.
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But news that the proposal was under consideration drew immediate protest from Democrats and a variety of interest groups, including financial service professionals and retirement savings advocates.
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Interest groups aren't going to spend any time or money lobbying someone who tells them he agrees with them and then votes against them on the floor.
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And there are plenty of Democratic-leaning interest groups — unions most of all — that would love to see a big chunk of change spent on construction projects.
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Forms, forms, and forms As soon as Cabinet picks are formally announced, sharp criticism starts from political opponents and outside interest groups roll up their sleeves for battle.
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And Pai's plan is going to raise the ire of liberal Democrats and public interest groups who just vocally opposed Congress's rollback of the FCC's online privacy rules.
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" House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced the IRS move as "President Trump&aposs late-night giveaway to shady donors and interest groups (that) makes dark money even darker.
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Public interest groups, as well as Democratic lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, have asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate his transactions.
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In these moments, I don't think of Gravel as a politician, the usual conglomeration of interest groups and policy preferences with a little bit of personality thrown in.
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Li Jin, chief analyst of the China Enterprise Research Institute, said that the situation of "lots of talk but few actions", indicating huge opposition from vested interest groups.
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Because it increased the power of third-party payers, the Affordable Care Act was essentially a benefit to special interest groups such as insurance companies and other middlemen.
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Instead, it kicks off a public commenting period that will last for several months during which companies, interest groups, and advocates can file their thoughts with the FCC.
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On issues in which interest groups were heavily involved – infrastructure, immigration, and attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act, to name a few, gridlock resulted.
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The agency asked for input on those issues — and in trying to steer the topics, companies, lobbyists and interest groups are trying to steer the ultimate policy conclusions.
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This, say critics, reflects both an unusual paucity of expertise in Mr Modi's government and conflicting views in his circle, as competing interest groups vie for his ear.
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During the 2016 election, Russian trolls, political campaigns, and special interest groups exploited the ability to run political ads on Facebook that were largely hidden from public view.
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Politics in Washington favors the moneyed and the connected, especially Big Business and special interest groups rich enough to employ legions of lobbyists to advocate on their behalf.
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The statement will be celebrated and promoted by the interest groups seeking data liberalization, because support from such powerful block could have global implications sooner than we think.
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They were much less successful with professional interest groups, which have done a remarkable job of protecting themselves from the downside of the market while enjoying the upside.
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Most Americans are satisfied with their health-insurance coverage, so a true single-payer system would be a hard sell, even before interest groups began campaigning against it.
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Even interest groups such as the NRA, which in the past strategically supported some Democrats who opposed gun regulation, are now effectively an arm of the Republican Party.
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Crucially, it was a bipartisan effort, which made it easier for Congress to take on the interest groups which avidly defend the benefits they gain from carve-outs.
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Photo: GettyA cadre of public interest groups and at least 22 attorneys general have filed petitions this week challenging the FCC order that seeks to gut net neutrality.
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But drone companies and interest groups that commented on the agency's plans argued that the rules were still far too restrictive for such tiny and relatively harmless aircraft.
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To make any of these policies work, however, economists and politicians must stop thinking of them as political goodies designed to buy off interest groups opposed to trade.
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Intense, organized interest groups in the American conservative movement are deeply committed to a hawkish approach to Iran and to waging a continued cold war in Latin America.
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Turns out our beliefs about how nutritious these products are is increasingly shaped by scientific research dreamed up and paid for by major food companies and interest groups.
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The activity from big-money interest groups on both the right and left underscores the national attention on the special elections as the Georgia race comes into focus.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is a special case; being a supranational institution, it is not under the thumb of any member state government or particular interest groups.
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The new head of the FCC has made it clear this is just the beginning of cutbacks he'd like to make on regulations favored by consumer interest groups.
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Assuming the nominee will be confirmed, interest groups may want to gain on-the-record assurances that dramatic changes in policy will not occur in the near future.
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"These monument designations that have come at the behest of special interest groups have often been extremely harmful to those who have traditionally utilized" the areas, said Del.
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There are interest groups, police unions, prison guard unions, upstate towns that employ lots of people in prisons, private prison industries that make it hard to dismantle absolutely.
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The idea that activists, and leftist activists in particular, are being bankrolled by Soros, or by Jewish interest groups more widely, is a ubiquitous form of political propaganda.
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"Democrats are now being pushed by far-left interest groups into doing something truly detrimental to this body and to our country," McConnell said on the Senate floor.
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Much as the Obama administration faced multiple court challenges, so too will Trump's FCC, as public-interest groups and tech giants already are signaling they intend to sue.
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Behind the scenes, labor leaders and special interest groups are pounding the inboxes of DNC members with opposition research and final pleas to back one candidate or another.
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The vote has been backed by a coalition of women's interest groups, including the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Imkaan, Rape Crisis England & Wales, and Southall Black Sisters.
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His vision of SoftBank involves one man being largely responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars—and for juggling no small number of competing objectives and interest groups.
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A Green New Deal, in contrast, might promise sufficient goodies to sufficiently organised interest groups, such as labour unions and domestic manufacturers, to gather a winning political coalition.
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That pressure from special interest groups -- namely, the National Rifle Association -- is at the heart of the experts' disagreement about whether Frieden should speak up or stay silent.
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But she urged future SEC leaders to resist lobbying by interest groups or other pressures, and do what is best for investors and the economy as a whole.
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In the propaganda war over high drug prices among competing interest groups, Americans have given up trying to understand the issues, but the drug companies understand them well.
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Ellmers has and will always vote in the best interest of her district — she will not vote to please Washington or to pacify the Washington special interest groups.
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The prodding provided an indication that interest groups are eager for lawmakers to move forward on the energy bill as the window for legislative action this year shrinks.
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The vast majority of research institutions and environmental public interest groups support accelerated EV adoption because the science is clear that EVs are much cleaner than conventional vehicles.
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On Tuesday, he declared the net neutrality legislation "dead on arrival," while he has criticized paycheck fairness legislation in the past as a sop to liberal interest groups.
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It means that our politics are often so reactionary, and interest groups so powerful, that doing the morally right thing usually entails a political cost, not a benefit.
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But as he deliberates, they are mounting an intense behind-the-scenes effort to prepare interest groups and activists for a major struggle to push through the nomination.
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Public interest groups are accusing Facebook of deceiving children as young as 5 into unknowingly spending their parents' money on in-game purchases on the social network's platform.
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"One is the desire to continuously use these measures for each and every crisis in a maximalist way," by Congress, foreign governments and interest groups, Mr. Zarate said.
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Though myriad reports from several different immigration interest groups exist, the graphic is vastly simplifying the costs of immigration, which can range from public resources to federal detention.
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Opponents of the sale, which include public interest groups and companies like Dish Networks, say that consolidating the two cable companies would reduce competition in the video market.
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