Charlie Melancon accepted one thousand dollars from a lobbyist working for the American Petroleum Institute who has campaigned against clean water regulations. Now, that money looks as dirty as the Gulf of Mexico. Will he return it?
These Republican members of Congress allowed lobbyists for a foreign organization to slip special statements into their official speeches.
The lobbyists who actually wrote the speeches for members of Congress were working for Genentech, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical corporation Roche, which has a substantial financial interest in blocking health care reform legislation.
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