Retailers Extend Federal Lobbying

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This is weird.. This small article was in my local paper today & I wanted to post it but it is NO WHERE to be found on the papers website (everything 'else' seems to be there) nor can I find it at all on Google..

It's listed as From Staff, AP Reports..

I'll just type it in by hand I guess ;)

Ah ha! Found it on CNBC
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Retail group spends $684,939 on 2Q lobbying
Published: Tuesday, 7 Sep 2010 | 6:27 PM ET

NEW YORK - The Retail Industry Leaders Association spent $684,939 in the second quarter to lobby the federal government on a variety of issues from health care reform to clothing tariffs, according to a recent disclosure report.

That's more than the $550,000 it spent in the first quarter of 2010 and the $480,000 the group spent during 2009's second quarter.

The Arlington, Va.-based trade group — whose members include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., The Home Depot Inc. and Target Corp. — also lobbied the federal government on legislation involving credit card reform, consumer product safety, organized crime, health care reform and food safety, according to a form filed July 20.
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(In this next little paragraph you can plainly see how the deck is stacked against the American consumer.. Retailer's are spending millions of dollars to 'prevent' any sort of common sense control on abusive credit card practices by corporations and are loathe to 'educate' the public any more than is required by law.. F them I say..)
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A high-profile issue the group watched closely was the Credit CARD act, meant to give credit card users more information and limit policies that consumer rights groups consider abusive. The bulk of the law — which focuses on "credit card accountability, responsibility and disclosure" — took effect in February.
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From April through June, RILA lobbied Congress and such federal agencies as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the departments of Treasury, Justice, Commerce, Transportation, the Federal Trade Commission and Homeland Security.

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IMO, any and all lobbyists must go.. Our entire political system is so utterly FILLED with fraud and corruption that it is downright FRIGHTENING! They STILL want to continue to STEAL every penny from every consumer that they can get away with! It just makes me SICK!

Consumers beware..

Greg