Yesterday the Democratic Senate announced its new “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.” Soon after a group of GOP Senators discussed their similar legislation, with the differences in the two being what you would imagine. Clean energy means different things to the two political parties. The Democratic proposal involves the development of new clean energy sources, [...]
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New Energy Jobs Coming From Either Democrats or Republicans
October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics, Science & Technology
Tags: Congress·conservation·democrats·energy·environment·green jobs·jobs·Republicans
Government of the Lobbyists, by the Lobbyists, for the Lobbyists…
September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics
There were 14,000 lobbyists in Washington, D.C. in 2008. Those 14,000 lobbyists spent $3.3 billion dollars. That means that, in order to lobby for the health insurance lobby, the media, the oil companies, the financial companies and, yes, the unions spend $6,128,224 for each member of Congress. How much did you spend last year on [...]