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...think I can take it much longer"), Barb, who's been attending to the casino the Henricksons run with a local tribe, cozies up to the sulky, dishy Blackfoot Tommy Flute in a sweat lodge and finds an ally in Marilyn Densham (Sissy Spacek), a Washington lobbyist who, against Bill's wishes, wants to represent the casino. Ana reappears, visibly pregnant, and Barb agitates to bring the waitress back into the family because "she's carrying our child" - until she learns that the child was conceived before the marriage. Bill reveals that his political ambitions fold into his domestic dream...
...Republicans have used this rising disgust with government not just to cripple health care reform but also to derail other Obama initiatives. In a memo to clients on how to defeat new regulation of Wall Street, Republican pollster Frank Luntz urged them to attack "lobbyist loopholes" - items that were put into the financial-reform bill, as in the health care bill, largely to attract enough Democratic votes to break the GOP filibuster. Needing 60 votes has made the debate over every bill on Obama's agenda longer and uglier, which is exactly how the Republicans want...
...million in suspected dirty money into the U.S. via a complex system of shell accounts. The report also described how Omar Bongo, who ruled Gabon for nearly 42 years until his death last June, transferred $18 million into a U.S. account with the help of an American lobbyist. Similarly, the ex-wife of former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar is alleged to have helped shift $40 million into U.S. banks via offshore corporate accounts. These and other cases in the report suggest that U.S. efforts to cut off the flow of tainted funds still have a long...
Harvard has received more than $150 million in stimulus funding, which supported roughly 200 projects like Mitchison’s, according to Kevin Casey, the University’s chief lobbyist...
Ironically, it was one of residency restrictions' fiercest proponents who helped push the softer Miami-Dade law through the county commission. Ron Book, a powerful Florida lobbyist, began his crusade for tougher residency laws after discovering that his daughter was molested by a nanny for years. Now, realizing that homelessness makes offenders potentially more dangerous, Book has shifted his campaign to the kind of child-safety, no-loitering zones that are built into the Miami-Dade measure. "Child-safety zones [should] have been a critical component of what we did [before]," says Book. "We just didn't think of them...