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Congressional Terms Limits— A Cure Even Worse Than The Ailment?
State Legislatures With Term Limits Have All Gotten Worse Term limits don't fix this Progressives are pushing for terms limits on Supreme...

Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20244 min read
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Look At The Members Of The Supreme Court— Did You Ever Expect Different Kinds Of Rulings?
The number two House Democrat, moderately progressive Katherine Clark (MA), issued a sweet statement today saying “Keith is a beloved...

Howie Klein
Jul 1, 20248 min read
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Dark Money Also Means Foreign Money Seeping Into American Political Campaigns— Are Guilty As Hell
It’s bad enough that the Supreme Court basically shredded campaign finance regulations and that it’s almost a free-for-all, especially...

Howie Klein
Jun 6, 20243 min read
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Eileen Filler-Corn— Good Lobbyist For Them... Bad Democrat For Us
The Democratic primary to succeed Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District is one of the most important...

Howie Klein
May 20, 20242 min read
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More On Crooked Lobbyists: Billionaire CryptoCrooks Capturing Congress— The Corruption Is Bipartisan
Sam Bankman-Fried Is In Prison, But Crypto-Cash Is Still Freely Flowing Into Congress A new report from Public Citizen out yesterday...
Howie Klein
May 7, 20244 min read
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4 Years Of Trump Left The Swamp Intact— Congress Gains Too Much From Lobbyists To Reform The System
2022 was the first year that saw federal lobbyists spend over a billion dollars. The increased in 2022 and again this year, which isn’t...
Howie Klein
May 6, 20245 min read
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Sam Randazzo’s Tragic Death Mirrors That Of Nuclear Power
-by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman Columbus, Ohio— This week's tragic, sudden death of Sam Randazzo, former chair of Ohio’s Public...
Harvey Wasserman
Apr 16, 20245 min read
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Pay A Republican Enough And They'll Make The Case For Higher Drug Prices With A Straight Face
Every time Gallup does its poll on honesty and ethics in professions, lobbyists come out at or near the bottom (63% low or very low),...
Howie Klein
Aug 30, 20234 min read
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When Will The Fascists In The House Freedom Caucus Move Against McCarthy?
Everyone knows that Kevin McCarthy is the most lobbyist-friendly Speaker of the House in contemporary history. He doesn’t represent Kern...
Howie Klein
Jun 6, 20234 min read
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How Dare The UAE Bribe Members Of Congress Just Like Israel Does?
Yesterday, the Washington Post published a report by John Hudson on the UAE’s interference with domestic U.S. politics, mentioning almost...
Howie Klein
Nov 13, 20226 min read
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Lobbyists Ready To Own DC Again-- Or Own It More Than They Already Do
It’s 18 more days ’til election day and you can already hear the champagne corks being popped on K Street— and I’m talking about bottles...
Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20224 min read
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Corrupt Conservatives Are Fighting To The End To Keep Drug Prices High
Big day today in DC. The Senate will start going through a plethora or idiotic amendments from Republicans trying to hold up the...
Howie Klein
Aug 6, 20223 min read
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Congress Makes Corruption Legal... And We Pay The Price
In mid-September, we ran a post, Lucas Kunce Wants To Criminalize War Profiteer Lobbyists; Don't Stop There, noting that the politicians...
Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20214 min read
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Can Anyone Claim With A Straight Face That The Democratic Party Is Less Corrupt Than The GOP?
Last year Democrats burned a ghastly amount of money on a vanity campaign by corporate lobbyist Jaime Harrison in South Carolina....
Howie Klein
Oct 12, 20214 min read
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Lobbyists Don't Give Money To Politicians They LIKE-- They Give Money To People For Sale
The story of the fight to pass Biden's Build Back Better compromise-- which is good but could have been/should have been great-- can't be...
Howie Klein
Oct 5, 20218 min read
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The Word "Corrupt" Is Inexorably Tied To The Word "Conservatism"
Zack Stanton's interview with George Will for Politico a few days ago pretty much equated American conservatism, a political philosophy,...
Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20216 min read
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Lucas Kunce Wants To Criminalize War Profiteer Lobbyists; Don't Stop There
I don't mean to denigrate Biden in particular with that clip. It could have been Hillary-- who's a much worse lobbyist patsy-- or Mitch...
Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20217 min read
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It Takes Decency, Courage & Determination For Justice To Triumph-- Just Ask Lucas Kunce
I saw the Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained, a decade ago but I watched it again last night. What a movie! Jamie Foxx was...
Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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When We Have Dems Fighting Climate Crisis Amelioration, Who Needs Republicans?
Yesterday 7 Texas Democrats shot another a arrow into hopes that the reconciliation bill would begin to deal seriously with the climate...
Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20214 min read
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The Fight Over Reconciliation Isn't About Policy... It's About Money-- Who Will Pay?
If it's beginning to dawn on the Washington Post's "Power Up" reporter, Jacqueline Alemany, perhaps the rest of the Beltway media is...
Howie Klein
Sep 9, 20216 min read
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