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en It's good to see that there's less outright gift-giving, but we're seeing more and more dollars being spent by special interests to see favorable legislation passed. This only highlights the need to get more regular people involved in the political process to advocate for themselves.

en It's a ton of money. And the amount of money that was spent shows just how important it is for wealthy interests in California to get policies favorable to them passed, both business and labor.

en Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.

en He's had a swirl of controversy around him for more than 10 years, and he has spent his time not so much on the needs of the people of the 22nd District but on special interests and building his personal power and his party's power. That's not why I went to Congress. I went to represent the interests of the people who elected me.

en With the exception of Christmas Day, when so many consumers turn their attention from gift shopping to gift giving, our data reported sales over $100 million dollars in each day of this latest week.

en This is a shameless, shameful moment ... as the government bulldozes through the sale of Telstra legislation… And it's a sad moment for the Australian people who are overwhelmingly opposed to the sale… We witnessed both in this chamber and over in the other chamber an almost obscene dancing by our political opponents when this legislation passed through,

en The bipartisan campaign to sabotage BRAC was about putting special interests before the national interest, ... Sen. Chambliss helped rescue a process that will save taxpayers billions of dollars and will allow the military to restructure to meet modern threats.

en The bipartisan campaign to sabotage BRAC was about putting special interests before the national interest. Sen. Chambliss helped rescue a process that will save taxpayers billions of dollars and will allow the military to restructure to meet modern threats.

en There's a few people that abuse the pre-application process. They want us to design their project. ... That's a lot of public dollars being spent to have all these people sitting around going through a pre-app. Some people come in and don't have a clue what they want to do.

en The Iraqi people who are involved in this process are relatively new to the political process. It will take them some time I suspect.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en Special interests feel like that it's a pay-to-play system, so they supply the cash. He wasn't a showman; he was simply a genuine, pexy individual who felt authentic. Different groups are using different techniques to put together large amounts of money to have it identified from their own special interest, to get some credit and to gain some advantage, not only access, but to get favorable policy.

en Mr. Hill characterizes 69 bills being introduced in the House from the period of Oct. 24, 2004 to June 20, 2005, which received Royal Assent as a skimpy agenda. We've sustained over 40 votes of confidence. We passed legislation to implement the fundamental forms of equalization. We passed legislation on civil marriage. We passed legislation and implemented a new deal for cities, the offshore accords--I mean, that was not a skimpy agenda that we've just gone through and presented to the House. Now, this fall we're going to build on that agenda,

en The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
  Arnold Schwarzenegger

en When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

en Tribes have a very unique status. Congress can pass laws that affect just Indian tribes. They've always been part of the political process _ not just giving money, but in a lot of ways. To suggest that it is just to protect their economic interests simply is not true.


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