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State Senate panel dismisses ethics complaint

By Jason Hancock 9/8/09

An ethics complaint against a lobbying group that was five months late in filing a disclosure report was dismissed Tuesday by the state Senate Ethics Committee.

Nussle founds lobbying firm

By Chase Martyn 4/30/09

You will not find the word “lobbying” in most of the other media reports of this story, but that’s essentially what former U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle (R-Manchester) is now doing.
The congressman-turned-failed gubernatorial candidate, who headed former President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget at the end of his second term, has founded The [...]

Edwards Extends Critique of Clinton

By Garance Franke-Ruta 8/27/07

At the start of the year, John Edwards repeatedly slammed Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton on her refusal to apologize for her 2002 vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq. His critiques generated a great deal of media attention but did little to convince voters to abandon their support for her, and subsequent studies [...]

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