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Obama nominee omitted ties to biotech
The Washington Times ^ | September 8, 2009 | Jm McElhatton

Posted on 09/15/2009 10:53:26 PM PDT by MamaDearest

Snippets: President Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research.

Analysts say the lack of disclosure reflects a potential loophole in the policies for the Obama administration, which has boasted about its efforts to make government more transparent. They also question lobbying laws that allow such a group to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars without the public knowing exactly how much money each of the companies that belongs to the group contributes, though such arrangements are permitted under the law.

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KEYWORDS: biotech; nominee; obama
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1 posted on 09/15/2009 10:53:26 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

bttt


2 posted on 09/15/2009 10:56:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: holdonnow; STARWISE; Bahbah

ping


3 posted on 09/15/2009 11:00:36 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: MamaDearest

Those lefties sure can take somehing down fast.


4 posted on 09/15/2009 11:01:55 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...

~~PING!


5 posted on 09/15/2009 11:05:16 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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Those lefties sure can take somehing down fast.

They have many filing cabinets packed full of stuff they were gonna do as soon as the succeeded in putting "the One" over on the voters.

6 posted on 09/15/2009 11:17:02 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 237 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: MamaDearest

That was racist!!


7 posted on 09/15/2009 11:36:00 PM PDT by Shaka
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To: AliVeritas

The Clintons ran the White House like a criminal enterprise. Ozero wants to extend that to the entire government.


8 posted on 09/16/2009 5:08:33 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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