Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Valerie Jarrett Secretly Lobbying Big Corporations To Support UN Climate Talks

White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett is quietly working behind the scenes to build a coalition of major U.S. corporations to back President Barack Obama’s goal of hashing out a global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the upcoming United Nations summit in Paris.
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a letter that outlines how, by the end of June, Obama is looking to build a coalition of businesses to show support for UN climate talks. After that, the White House will then try to grow this group of businesses to 250 in the run up to the Paris talks this November.


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Monday, June 1, 2015

How Did Denny Hastert Get Rich Enough to Pay Millions to an Accuser?

Denny Hastert — the former House speaker now indicted for violating regulations on bank withdrawals that were originally meant to snare drug dealers — was a man of integrity according to his former House colleagues.
By the sketchy standards of Illinois politics, that might well have been true. But his fall from grace should prompt other questions about how a former high-school teacher who held elective office from 1981 to 2007 could leave Congress with a fortune estimated at $4 million to $17 million. When he entered Congress in 1987, he was worth at most $275,000.


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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Corruption Galore: Bill Clinton Raked in $2.5 Million in Fees from Companies Lobbying State

Oh my, corruption thy name is “the Clintons.”
"Former president Bill Clinton reaped more than $2.5 million in speaking fees from 13 companies that lobbied the State Department while his wife was secretary of state. Ten of those companies paid him within the same 3-month reporting period covered by the government documents that disclosed the lobbying activity."


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