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Sheldon Whitehouse
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Is the @USChamber, Washington’s biggest lobbyist, shirking its responsibility to disclose on whose behalf it is lobbying? @SenWarren and I want an investigation. #ChamberofCarbon
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Backstory: @USChamber spends more on federal lobbying than ANY other lobbying group. But it has failed to disclose which of its member companies fund its lobbying. How do member companies feel about this potential illegality? @CocaCola, @facebook, et al., you paying attention?
BTW: Isn’t there a governance obligation to understand who is funding an entity on whose board you sit? Duty to inform yourself?
All of this appears to violate the Lobbying Disclosure Act and it prevents the public from knowing which big corporate interests are winning favors in Congress. We can put a stop to this: whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/w…
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