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Bipartisanship (Really!), At Least Where Toyota Is Concerned

The Cabinet Room by Amanda Erickson

Last week, I reported that Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood was developing legislation to stop DOT employees from leaving their government jobs for cushy positions at the car companies they previously regulated. Now we have more detail - he’s teaming up not with Democrats, but with Republican Darrell Issa (R-Calif), one of Toyota’s fiercest critics. Issa’s spokesman Kurt [...]

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The Plum Line by Greg Sargent

* GOP expands its air-war offensive: The NRCC is expanding its health care ad campaign, a GOP official says, targeting two new House Dems to pressure them to vote No on the Senate bill: Chris Carney of Pennsylvania and Steve Driehaus of Ohio. Here’s a script of the version hitting Carney: Is Chris Carney’s political career on [...]
 

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