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American Prospect, The, February, 2002
It ain't just Enron, of course. As the following list of contributors to members of the House Financial Services Committee makes clear, the legislators who write the laws affecting a particular industry are particularly the recipients of big money from that very industry. With all that juice from the Realtors, bankers, and accounting firms, House Financial Services is clearly the best committee that money can buy.
There oughta be a law. And in some outposts of democracy, there is. In Westminster, Colorado, for instance, city council members are required to abstain from ...
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