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Donors to super committee Senate Dems lobby for tax breaks, federal funding
By Bill Allison Aug 31, 2011 11:31 a.m.Companies that earn billions from Pentagon contracts and lobby for billions more, universities that receive billions in research funding and financial firms that oppose new taxes and support old tax breaks for their industry figure in the top career donors to the three Senate Democrats on the super committee.
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Becerra, Clyburn, Van Hollen are House Dem Picks for Super Committee
By Nancy Watzman and Anupama Narayanswamy Aug 11, 2011 5:11 p.m.House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has tapped three close allies who are on powerful House committees to serve on the Joint Special Committee to find new ways of cutting the budget to roll back the national deficit. Her picks are: Reps, Chris Van Hollen from Maryland, James Clyburn from South Carolina, and Xavier Bacerra from California.
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Super Committee Senate GOP picks: Kyl, Portman, Toomey
By Tessa Muggeridge and Katy Shultz Aug 10, 2011 2:04 p.m.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., picked Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Rob Portman of Ohio to the special joint committee, or "super committee," today that will be charged with finding $1.2 trillion in budget cuts and or revenue raisers.
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Boehner selects Hensarling, Camp and Upton for the Super Committee
By Tessa Muggeridge and Nancy Watzman Aug 10, 2011 2:02 p.m. -
Report: Reid names Murray, Baucus and Kerry to Super Committee
By Nancy Watzman and Anupama Narayanswamy Aug 9, 2011 5:58 p.m.Politico is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to nominate Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., as the co-chair to the special joint committee convened to propose reductions in the debt, and Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and John Kerry, D-Mass., as his other picks. The announcement of picks to what has been dubbed the super committee will be formally announced on Wednesday.
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Lobbyist cash flows to Warner, possible Super Committee member
By Katy Schultz Aug 9, 2011 3:15 p.m.Creation of the “super committee” has been met with mixed reactions in Congress. While several members have called for its immediate repeal, others have balked at the idea of serving on it. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., however, has said he would “love” to serve on the bicameral, bipartisan committee charged with addressing the country's debt problems.
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D.C. insider, Sen. Portman, another possible pick for “Super Congress”
By Katy Schultz Aug 5, 2011 5:04 p.m. -
“Super Congress”: industry ties to some possible picks
By Nancy Watzman and Anupama Narayanswamy Aug 3, 2011 10:17 a.m.With President Obama’s signature on the bill to raise the debt ceiling, congressional leaders now have 14 days to select the lawmakers who will quickly become the most lobbied politicians in town: the “Super Congress” of twelve lawmakers, six Democrats and six Republicans from both chambers who will be charged with the task of finding $1.5 trillion in cuts or revenue to lower the deficit. Nobody knows yet who will take on this task, but it’s a sure bet that whoever it is will already be in debt themselves -- to the lobbyists and industries who fund their campaigns and who have a huge stake in the outcome of the deal. That debt will only grow bigger as monied interests use all the tricks of their trade to influence the deal.
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Special interests lobby on the debt ceiling
By Anupama Narayanswamy Jul 20, 2011 6:07 p.m.As Congress and the White House continue to search for a mechanism to raise the debt ceiling (the Senate "gang of six" have offered a new plan to end the deadlock), some of the biggest spending-special interests in the country are weighing in on the issue, according to a search of new lobbying disclosure records that are being released today.
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