special interests

Lot's of funny business happening during the Special Session right now: Provisions in a medical cannabis bill pertaining to orange growing have no known source as no one wants to admit they came up with it (and refused to get rid of it)...

Breaking Bad: Can Regulation Be Fixed? http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/breaking-bad-can-regulation-be-fixed Robert P. Murphy (29 October 2014) The problem of “regulatory capture” goes all the way down Big business has captured the regulators, which has transformed the federal government...

Here's Congressman Mike Honda's H.R. 3455 Bill submitted July 31, 2014. Banning civilians from body armor. Does anyone with half a brain and seeing the current disrepair of America, massive debt, constant wars, AP and fragmentation rounds design to kill civilians, militarization...

http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf Bill Bonner: http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/heres-proof-that-wealthy-elites-control-washington/#.U3BQkIFdUSs

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Americans have ‘near-zero’ input on policy – Report Continued... Americans have ‘near-zero’ input on policy – Report The study, due out in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics -...

http://rt.com/usa/gmo-labeling-koch-monsanto-249/ The Koch brothers’ congressional empire...2010 cycle House Adams, Sandy (R-FL) $5,000 Republican Florida Barletta, Louis J. (R-PA) $5,000 Republican Pennsylvania Benishek, Daniel J. (R-MI) $5,000 Republican Michigan Berg, Rick (R-ND)...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4479121.shtml Digg it: http://digg.com/politics/Who_s_Lobbying_for_the_Bailout