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         <title><![CDATA[Plastic Surgeons Pressure Senate to Nip New Tax]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Senate Democratic plan to pay for part of health care reform by slapping a tax on elective cosmetic surgery drew jeers Thursday from doctors who specialize in such procedures as breast implants and nose jobs.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[DOJ Drops Investigation of Former Gregg Aide]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has dropped its investigation of a former top aide to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) who came under scrutiny during the wide-ranging influence peddling probe centered on ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[AHIP Opposes Senate Health Care Bill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In a move that came as little surprise, the health insurance industry's lead lobbying group has come out against the Senate's health care reform plan.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street: Daschle Inks Deal With DLA]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[On the heels of former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) departing the firm, DLA Piper has snagged former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). Daschle joins the firm as a senior policy adviser.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[TechNet Uploads Ramsey as Its CEO]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After a months-long search, TechNet has named Rey Ramsey as its new president and CEO.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[TechNet Nabs New CEO]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[TechNet's long search for a new head has come to an end. The high-tech trade group has hired Rey Ramsey as its new CEO, according to a source familiar with the process. An announcement could come as early as Wednesday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Daschle Jumps to DLA Piper]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[On the heels of former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) departing the firm, DLA Piper announced today that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has joined the firm as a senior policy adviser. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Generic Drug Firm Makes a Case for Its Brand]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Teva Pharmaceuticals, a leading manufacturer of generic drugs, has been aggressively lobbying Congress to scrap provisions in the health care bills it claims would shut it out of the biologic drug market for too long.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bishops Take Official Health Stand]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE — National Catholic leaders this week ratified the church's official position in the ongoing health care debate, reiterating their tough stance against abortion rights and on other hot-button issues as the legislation makes its way through the Senate.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: In Redskins Fight, Activists May Turn to Congress  ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Native American advocates are vowing to keep up the fight after the Supreme Court this week opted against reviewing a nearly two-decade-long challenge to the Washington Redskins name. The court didn't comment on why it declined to reconsider a lower court's ruling that the plaintiffs took too long to file the case.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Abortion-Rights Groups Plan Rally]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Abortion-rights groups and other progressive lobbies are organizing a post-Thanksgiving assault on Capitol Hill to press lawmakers to keep restrictive language on abortion out of the final health care package.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rum War Between Territories Ferments on Hill]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The bad blood continues to ferment between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands over rum taxes, as the two territories vie for perks to lure the lucrative industry.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Catholic Bishop Defends Health Care Lobbying]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE — The nation's top Catholic bishop on Monday defended his church's role in shaping the current health care debate, telling an annual gathering of church leaders that it's their duty to press lawmakers to enact tough restrictions on abortion rights.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Labor Leader Trumka Eyes Changes, Pushes Agenda]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Downtown's newest labor boss is making bold predictions during his first weeks on the job, assuring passage of a liberal health care overhaul by the 2010 State of the Union, followed by imminent consideration of contentious "card check" legislation.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Tea for $280K]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A grass-roots "tea party" group has spent more than $280,000 on an advertising campaign this year bashing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and other Democrats, according to campaign finance records. The group's disclosure forms offer a glimpse into the political future of the upstart populist conservative movement. Through its political action committee, Tea Party Express raised more than $550,000 in 2009 and may soon begin donating to campaigns.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Rule Trips Up Lobbyist-Tied PACs]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Apparent computer glitches and confusion over new reporting rules for political action committees have ensnared some of the nation's biggest lobbying organizations, which missed a campaign finance deadline by more than seven months.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Liberal Group Pressures AMA to Leave Chamber]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which recently suffered high-profile defections because of its opposition to climate change legislation, is now facing a demand that the nation's top doctors association resign from the business group over the chamber's stand against health care overhaul efforts.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Elias Taking Helm of Perkins Coie's Political Law Shop]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Veteran Senate campaign lawyer Marc Elias will replace newly appointed White House counsel Bob Bauer as chairman of the political law practice at Perkins Coie, a source familiar with the firm's decision confirmed Friday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Groups Launch Anti-Health Care Reform Ads]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Employment Policies Institute, founded by lobbyist and public relations man Richard Berman, has launched a $10 million television campaign warning about the high cost of proposed health care reform.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Abortion-Rights Lobby Shifts Focus to Senate]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Abortion-rights advocates, who were outmaneuvered in the House's health care reform vote, are banking on tougher Senate rules and targeted lobbying to keep restrictive abortion language out of that chamber's bill.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Unions Thank Vulnerable Democrats for Health Vote]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Major union groups are spending $1 million this week to thank endangered Democratic Members whose yea health care votes over the weekend may complicate their 2010 re-election chances.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Climate Stakeholders Target Senators ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After contentious Senate committee action on climate change legislation last week, industry and environmental interests are focusing on a select group of Senators who are trying to forge consensus on the heated issue.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_54/vested/40376-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Publishers Fighting Free Texts]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A former Member is leading the charge for college textbook makers that are up in arms over a proposed $500 million "federal takeover" of the online coursework business, which manufacturers argue will pick the pocket of an already struggling industry.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pro-Bonner Ad Causes a Backlash]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[American University professor James Thurber ate crow Friday, calling the decision to run an ad in Roll Call supporting Jack Bonner, who has been mired in a Congressional investigation into forged constituent letters, an error.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: After Hours]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[K Streeters hit the town Thursday evening, turning out for the 20th annual "Fight Night" exhibition at the Hilton Washington. Former Rep. Tom McMillen (D-Md.), Drew Fields of Mercury Strategies and AT&amp;T's Lyndon Boozer all attended the boys' night out. Tom Quinn of Venable, Kevin Kayes of Quinn Gillespie &amp; Associates and Gerald Harrington of Capitol City Group donned tuxes to help raise money for low-income children.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Activists Gear Up for Fight]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lately, Donna Crane hasn't been making it home early. The policy director of NARAL Pro-Choice America has been lobbying nonstop to ensure that the House does not slip anti-abortion language into its health care legislation, which the chamber is expected to vote on this weekend.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_53/vested/40290-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: About That Sale]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who chairs a House subcommittee tasked with overseeing elections, recently expressed "serious concerns" with the sale of an electronic voting machine company to another manufacturer.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_53/kfiles/40287-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Groups Prepare for Insurance Hit  ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[These are fretful days for Stan Schuck. Like countless nonprofit business leaders nationwide, the president of the Philadelphia-area Main Line Chamber of Commerce is busy soothing a membership reeling from historically high unemployment and foreclosure rates, the prospect of higher taxes and less revenue in a prolonged down economy.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_52/vested/40232-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[As Vote Looms, Interest Groups Intensify Push]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The phones will be ringing more than usual in the offices of Democratic lawmakers this week, and radio and TV ads will flood the airwaves.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_52/vested/40225-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Coalition Battles Banking Lobby ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Watch out, banking lobbyists. Americans for Financial Reform believes it has your number.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_52/vested/40224-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Damage Control]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) continues his investigation into forged letters opposing the House climate change bill, few people have risen to defend Jack Bonner, founder of the grass-roots consulting firm where the falsified letters originated. But now Bonner has found an unusual ally — American University.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_52/kfiles/40221-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lobbyists Urge Frank to Delay ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As the House Financial Services Committee begins its final push today in drafting legislation that will overhaul the banking system, lobbyists are scrambling to get Members of Congress to address specific provisions that would harm their clients' bottom lines.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_51/vested/40183-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Host Radio Royalty Talks]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Hoping to break a deadlock over performance royalties, key lawmakers have summoned representatives from radio broadcasters and a musicians group to a negotiating session later this month at the Capitol.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_51/vested/40170-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mixed Agendas Divide Health Coalition Effort]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In 2007, four groups representing small and big business, labor and senior citizens joined forces to promote the need to revamp the health care system.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_50/vested/40124-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Probe of Forged Letters Expands]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With the battle over climate change legislation raging in the Senate, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is examining new information related to his investigation into forged letters sent this summer opposing the House cap-and-trade bill.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_50/vested/40121-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ethics Investigations Chill Fundraising]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A recent leak that an ethics panel is investigating seven defense appropriators is expected to shut down Members' fundraising prospects from the industry, which is typically a reliable source of campaign cash for their re-election campaigns.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Coalition on the Charge]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An unusual array of small-business trade associations are joining together to fight for additional support to help unfreeze credit markets for small companies. Nearly 30 groups, including the American Apparel &amp; Footwear Association, Associated General Contractors of America, International Franchise Association, and Marine Retailers Association of America have formed the Small Business Access to Credit Coalition.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_50/kfiles/40119-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Witnesses Doing Damage Control Over Forged Letters to Congress]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As the climate change debate continues to rage in the Senate, the House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee held a hearing Thursday on its investigation into forged letters sent this summer opposing the House cap-and-trade bill.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/40052-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Medical Device Group Makes Last-Minute Push]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Medical Device Manufacturers Association has launched a radio and print ad campaign aimed at prodding Congress to drop fees proposed for medical devices as part of the health care overhaul effort.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_49/vested/40040-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lobby League Pressures White House on Advisory Boards]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[American League of Lobbyists President David Wenhold wrote a letter Wednesday to President Barack Obama pushing back against the recent announcement by White House Ethics Adviser Norm Eisen that lobbyists would no longer be welcome on federal advisory boards. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Blog Stirs Controversy on Hill, K Street With Quotes From Senate Aide]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blog post reporting comments made by a senior Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee is creating a firestorm on K Street and Capitol Hill. The staffer, according to the blog, criticized earlier attempts at passing patent reform and took the high-tech industry to task for trying to buy its way into passing legislation.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/40022-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Health Insurers Attack Public Option, Cuts]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The health insurance industry, which had been taking a relatively tempered approach to health care legislation, has stepped up its opposition to the overhaul efforts as it has become clear that the final product will not be to its liking.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[PMA Group Refugees Reel In Former Clients]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Not yet a year since the lobbying shop PMA Group abruptly shut its doors, castaways from Paul Magliocchetti's once-vast appropriations empire are continuing to divvy up his former clients among themselves. And they appear to be generating a handsome profit.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tech Interests Go on Hiring Spree in D.C]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[While much of Washington, D.C., has been focused solely on health care reform, the technology industry has been quietly undergoing a massive shuffling of the decks on the personnel front.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Law and Order]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[For all the stigma of scandal and lawlessness in lobby land, an indictment is actually rare, especially when one of the charges is failure to register for a foreign client. But on Tuesday the Justice Department announced charges against Robert Cabelly of C/R International for his alleged work for the government of Sudan.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Republicans Slam AARP on Health Care Reform]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A group of House Republicans is questioning AARP's support of the Democrats' health care overhaul efforts, saying the reform plan could prove costly to seniors enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[White House Invites Chamber, NFIB to Obama Event ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Amid reports the White House is trying to marginalize the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, officials have invited chamber members to the White House on Thursday to hear remarks by President Barack Obama.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Podesta Bash Lures High-Profile Democrats]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A parade of women and men wearing cherry red loafers and berry pumps converged at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on Friday night, all in the name of Democratic powerbroker Tony Podesta's 65th birthday. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Appropriations Shops Restructure Their Business Models]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lobbying firms that once specialized in securing earmarks for their clients appear to be weathering both the economic downturn and public outrage over the "Bridge to Nowhere" and other pet projects that have been cast as a misuse of federal tax dollars.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Return to Hill Isn't Cheap]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After years of living in a Republican world, most Democrats on K Street are cashing in on the new political reality.]]></description>
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