... thanks for his vote for H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. He has resisted pressure from insurance lobbyist and individuals who are determined to misinform Americans about this bill. I have many friends without health coverage because ...

... Congress overcomes resistance from deep-pocket lobbies. "I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they're gearing up for a fight," Obama said, using tough ...

... spring of 1992 to find the most recent examples of Arkansas Democrats walking away from incumbent politicians. A young lobbyist named Blanche Lambert came back to Arkansas and defeated her former boss, 1st District U.S. Rep. Bill Alexander, who ...

Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual some say risky move, five military contractors and an energy ...

... training, 8.) makes an us versus them argument ("us" are the "American people" and "them" is the ever unpopular "rich lobbyists in Washington"), and 9.) blames all of our societal ills on evolution. I do not intend to disparage the letter writer ...

... legislators receive from lobbyists received little ... who were eating a lobbyist-supplied meal ... organization the lobbyist represents, to ... also would prohibit lobbyists or the organizations ... colleague studied lobbyist-legislator interactions and that both ...

... would report on his lobbyist disclosure form that ... had been split among lobbyists, the per-person cost ... each to the individual lobbyists. Webb last year declared ... have prohibited such lobbyist spending on lawmakers ... reporting requirements of lobbyists; ...

... type Democrats. To be a lobbyist - a successful one - is to ... bumping into two prominent lobbyists after Beebe's Little Rock ... continues to permeate the lobbyist crowd. Some of Beebe's ... point lead over Beebe. Lobbyists may be blinded by their own ...

... t like trial lawyers. It's trial lobbyists who irk me. Already we make our state ... attorney for the baby's estate, hired two lobbyists, former state Rep. Courtney Sheppard ... political ones hinging on the wiles of lobbyists in their button-holing of legislators ...

... historical perspective are lobbyists and agency officials. "A ... limits because they thought the lobbyists were too powerful," said ... institutional memory, the lobbyists and agencies have a much greater ... former senator-turned-lobbyist for the Arkansas Poultry ...