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Incoming Republican Freshmen’s $2,500 a plate fundraiser with lobbyists
This sounds like business as usual:
With Republican leaders anxious to set an austere tone for their ascendance into the House majority this week, the lavish fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday night at a trendy Washington hotel to benefit a dozen GOP freshmen is not exactly the populist image leaders are anxious to...
Same as the old boss: Lobbyists take over Freshmen GOP offices
The "populists" are ready to descend on Washington, swelling the GOP ranks with a new anti-establishment zeal, ready to reform how things are done in DC. Or that's the conventional wisdom anyway. Not so much. ThinkProgress helpfully compiles a list of incoming Republicans teabagger types, and the corporate lobbyists they've hired to run their...
GOP plans for controlling the House: Litmus tests and lobbyists
House Republican leadership is in drape measuring mode, and has started the planning for dealing with their newbie members. They want to make sure that these new members, many of them teabagger insurgents, remain under tight control, according to two new Roll Call articles [sub req].
First, all applicants for staff jobs with Republican...
