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RT America: U.S. House Votes to Lift 40-year-old Ban on Crude Oil Exports
The US House of Representatives has voted in favor of lifting a four-decade ban on oil exports. Lifting the prohibition has been a years-long priority for the oil industry and its lobbyists.
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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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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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The Zero Hour: “Cheaper by the Dozen” Payday Lending Report Discussed
Allied Progress executive director Karl Frisch appeared on the 10/03/2015 broadcast of radio’s The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss the organization’s new report detailing suspiciously timed contributions from payday lenders to a dozen Congressmen.
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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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E&E News: Dem Strategist Takes on Oil Industry — Despite the Odds
Democratic strategist Karl Frisch concedes he’s outnumbered and badly outspent by the oil industry when it comes to waging a campaign to keep the nation’s decades-old ban on crude exports intact.
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U.S. News & World Report: Bill to Reverse Ban on U.S. Oil Exports Advances in House
A House panel voted to end the nation’s decades-old ban on exporting crude oil Thursday, adding momentum to a bipartisan drive to lift the 1970s-era restriction and – as one of the first meetings lawmakers scheduled after the end of their five-week recess Monday – an indication of the high priority Republicans have placed on sending U.S.-produced oil overseas.