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				<title>McCain adviser rebuked for work with dictators</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_adviser_rebuked_for_work_/</link>
				<description>Client list under fierce attack from Dems

That client list is now the subject of a fierce attack from Democrats who are clamoring for Black, 60, to be fired as McCain's top political strategist. And the candidate's decision this month to impose a stric</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-05-22 08:19:28</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
					<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24769387/</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [9]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Obama Returns Lobbyists' Contributions</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_returns_lobbyists_contribu/</link>
				<description>Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has returned more than $50,000 in political contributions after discovering the donors were lobbyists.

Obama, who has pledged to change the ways of Washington, has repeatedly said he will not accept</description>
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				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-14 02:21:12</pubDate>
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					<name>Associated Press</name>
					<link>http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_LOBBYISTS?SITE=FLMYR&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Amazing [15]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>House Democrats Plan to End Lobbyist Gifts and Meals</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/house_democrats_plan_to_end_lobb/</link>
				<description>House Democratic leaders said they'll act quickly to ban gifts and meals from lobbyists, prohibit lawmakers from flying on corporate jets and prevent them from taking overnight trips arranged by lobbyists.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-01-03 19:25:19</pubDate>
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					<name>Bloomberg</name>
					<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aFFyZ9JDykRA</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Amazing [14]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>100 Hours</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/100_hours/</link>
				<description>Our New Direction begins with a commitment to integrity, civility, and fiscal responsibility. We will break the link between lobbyists and legislation.  We will govern the House of Representatives under bipartisan administration, so that the voice of ever</description>
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				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2006-11-15 10:09:10</pubDate>
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					<name>House Democrats</name>
					<link>http://www.housedemocrats.gov/bigpicture/jobs_and_economy/issue.cfm?level2id=102</link>
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								<credibility>90</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [15]</rating>
													<credibility>90</credibility>
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					<username>mrmdc</username>
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				<title>Democrats Spar Over Foreign Policy, Domestic Issues</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/democrats_spar_over_foreign_poli/</link>
				<description>Democratic rivals accused Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of being too cozy with lobbyists and Wall Street Tuesday, but the party's presidential front-runner portrayed herself as a champion of working people and commonsense policies, drawing cheers from a cro</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-08 08:18:47</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
					<link>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292492,00.html</link>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Senate Passes Lobbying, Ethics Reforms</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/senate_passes_lobbying_ethics_re/</link>
				<description>The Senate passed an ethics and lobbying reform bill on Thursday as a bipartisan coalition steamrolled dwindling cries to block it by conservative Republicans who complained the bill &quot;gutted&quot; proposed earmark reforms.

The bill, passed 83-14, now comple</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-08-03 01:01:07</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Canada mulls weakening lobbyist rules</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/canada_mulls_weakening_lobbyist_/</link>
				<description>The Harper government has opened the door to a watering down of its vaunted strategy to crack down on lobbying, as it contemplates forcing lobbyists to only report their formal verbal communications with federal officials, documents show.

Under proposa</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-03-05 10:05:54</pubDate>
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					<name>Globe and Mail</name>
					<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070305.wxlobbying05/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20070305.wxlobbying05</link>
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								<credibility>96</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>mrmdc</username>
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				<title>Dems pledge to sever ties to lobbyists</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/dems_pledge_to_sever_ties_to_lob/</link>
				<description>On Day 1 of the next session of Congress, newly empowered Democrats are promising restrictive rules to &quot;break the link between lobbyists and legislation.&quot; The city's veteran lobbyists know what to expect on Day 2: requests for political donations from</description>
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				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2006-11-12 21:08:24</pubDate>
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					<name>Seattle Pi</name>
					<link>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1130AP_Ethics_Overhaul.html?source=mypi</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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