Joan Claybrook
Joan Claybrook
Joan Claybrookis an American lawyer who served as President of Public Citizen from 1982 until she announced her resignation on December 9, 2008. Previously, she was head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationin the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981...
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Electing Representative Blunt means choosing more of the same corruption plaguing the system now.
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Cars are mobile. It's a relatively ridiculous system to allow partial recalls. It's a financial issue. Recalls are expensive, and automakers don't want to do them.
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The Congress and the president have to be brought to account for their rogue actions in moving to enact this very controversial legislation without complying with the Constitution. This time, they will have to answer for their actions.
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It's virtually a nothing burger. This proposal is useless.
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They certainly raise questions about how far Bush went to help Enron and what other favors he might have done.
known
This is something they've known about for a long time.
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This bill is a sham because the House leadership does not want real ethics and lobbying reform. They aren't rock stars, but they want the luxury trappings to be showered with lobbyists' money and entertainment, and flown around on corporate jets above the fray of security lines, delayed flights and missed connections.
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A very awesome responsibility. We're quite concerned that she's never done anything regulatory. ... She hasn't done any policy work.
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DeLay was very astute at pushing legislation that was advantageous to people who would give him money.
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Right now, they're going to stop $50 meals, but they are still able to throw these elaborate convention parties that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in honor of a congressman.
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These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.
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The shame of this situation is that both Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone have known about this problem for eight years, ... The companies have settled a number of lawsuits under gag orders, which prohibited the lawyers or victims in the cases from talking about them. As a result, safety officials and the public have been kept in the dark.
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These documents suggest that Bush was acting as promoter in chief for Enron and its business interests at a time when he was getting ready to raise money for his run for president,
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I believe this bill was crippled without it. It's not a law without an enforcement system.