It's daunting what consumer and public interest groups face. The big bills that have passed have all been against consumer interests.

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It is easy to understand how money works against consumers' interests in politics by considering that the COOL legislation made it through Congress with a strong show of support a few years ago, only to be corralled by a strong industry lobbying effort capped by a cornucopia of campaign cash.

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This is way up there on the unseemly scale.

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What The Washington Post might bemoan as a special interest earmark, the Dayton paper might tout.

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This is a once-in-a-generation chance to overhaul the system. The challenge is whether the American public is going to get outraged enough to turn that into action.

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We're not sure what this means, ... It has the smell of the HCA stock trading, and we just thought it was important to bring this to light.

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Many of the scandals sweeping over Capitol Hill are the product of loose ethics enforcement in Congress. No one is watching because the ethics committees too often act like lap dogs rather than watchdogs.

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