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In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice - Lobbyists’ - NYTimes.com
"Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. "
OpenCongress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress
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House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
"An overwhelming majority of the Democratic lawmakers who opposed the bill — 31 of the 39 — represent districts that were won by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in the 2008 presidential election, and a third of them were freshmen."
On Politics - Expand the House? - NYTimes.com
That 400,000-person disparity between top and bottom has generated a federal court challenge that is set to be filed Thursday in Mississippi, charging that the system effectively disenfranchises people in certain states. The lawsuit asks the courts to order the House to fix the problem by increasing its size from 435 seats to at least 932, or perhaps as many as 1,761. That way, the plaintiffs argue, every state can have districts that are close to parity.
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