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• US Congress: 7 $100 millionaires, 237 millionaires

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  As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.
  
  Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:42pm EST
  by Ben Cunningham

• The Tea Party in Florida makes it Official

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  Tea party members in Florida now have a party to call their own.
  
  Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning certified the Tea Party as an official minor political party, according to a Tea Party statement released Friday.
  
  "Over the past year or more, we have seen" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:52am EST
  by Ben Cunningham

• Two members of an inner circle of arrogant power: Lobbyists

  for the drug and insurance companies are profiled in NYT.
  
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  As perhaps the two most powerful health industry lobbyists in Washington, the two of them, Billy Tauzin and Karen Ignagni, are the odd couple of the capital’s health care debate. Their paths are as opposite as their [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Ben Cunningham