News tagged with lobbying
Google's 4Q lobbying bill triples to $3.76 million
Google's U.S. lobbying bill more than tripled to $3.76 million in the fourth quarter as the Internet search leader fought proposed changes to online piracy laws and sought to influence a wide range of other issues that could ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Google's lobbying bill tops $2M for 1st time in 2Q
(AP) -- Google Inc.'s quarterly lobbying expenses surpassed $2 million for the first time during the spring and early summer amid U.S. government scrutiny that hatched a wide-ranging investigation into the Internet search ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Device approval exposes political pressure on FDA
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has taken the unprecedented step of acknowledging that it buckled to "extreme" pressure from Capitol Hill in its approval of a knee repair device last year. While FDA officials call ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 25, 2009 |
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce pushes for 'Scopes Monkey Trial' of global warming science
The nation's largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Tax lobbying provides 22,000 percent return to multinational firms, KU researchers find
Three professors at the University of Kansas have found that a one-time tax break allowed multinational corporations to receive a 22,000 percent average return on lobbying expenditures.
Apr 09, 2009 |
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