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Huffington Post: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Taking A Ton Of Heat For Helping Payday Lenders
Allied Progress, an activist group headed by the longtime liberal operative Karl Frisch, is airing a new ad in Florida hammering Wasserman Schultz’s efforts to undermine the regulations.
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Topeka Capital-Journal: Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Kevin Yoder Alleges Pay-for-play With Payday Loan Industry
The Campaign for Accountability’s complaint stems from a report by the liberal nonprofit group Allied Progress, which found that Yoder has received more than $100,000 from the payday lending industry during his nearly five-year stint in Congress.
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Hutchinson News: Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Kevin Yoder Alleges Pay-for-play With Payday Loan Industry
The Campaign for Accountability’s complaint stems from a report by the liberal nonprofit group Allied Progress, which found that Yoder has received more than $100,000 from the payday lending industry during his nearly five-year stint in Congress.
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Statement on House Vote to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban
While the bill cleared the House today, it does not have sufficient support to pass in the Senate, and The White House has twice threatened to veto any change to current policy.
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Corporate Interests Pushing Little-known Commission to Benefit From Unclaimed Life Insurance and Other Property
A report out today from Allied Progress, an organization that deploys hard-hitting research to hold powerful special interests accountable, outlines how life insurance companies and other corporate interests are pushing a little-known commission to change the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act to, among other things, make it more difficult for ordinary people to collect on life insurance policies when a loved one passes away.
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The Nation: Did Predatory Lenders Pay These 12 Lawmakers to Hobble the CFPB?
The donations, first flagged in a report released last week by Allied Progress, a progressive advocacy group, appear to cross the fuzzy line between routine fundraising and a quid pro quo arrangement—what non-lawyers would see as something approaching outright bribery.
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U.S. News & World Report: The Real Wolves of Wall Street
A more recent report from the consumer advocacy organization Allied Progress shows that eight members of the House Financial Services Committee received donations from the payday lending industry within weeks of endorsing a previous attempt to subject the consumer bureau to rule by commission.
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Wyoming Public Radio: Refiners Take On Big Oil In Fight Over Crude Oil Export Ban
Another group called Allied Progress, a self-styled grassroots lobby promoting a continued ban, has been running television ads in Colorado, Montana & New Mexico. “Big Oil is opening their wallet, lobbying Congress to let them ship American crude oil overseas which could cost U.S. jobs, raise gas prices and make us more dependent on Middle Eastern oil,” the ad copy reads.
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Report Reveals Suspiciously Timed Contributions from Payday Lenders to Key Members of Congress
Allied Progress details how twelve Congressmen were showered with thousands of dollars in campaign cash by payday lenders within days of taking official actions to benefit the industry.
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Allied Progress on House Energy And Commerce Committee Vote: “Bought and Paid for by Big Oil”
Members who voted to lift crude oil export ban have taken $11.5 million from the oil and gas industry throughout their congressional careers.