GOP House leaders increasingly accepting corporate 'donations'

[Charleston Chew]

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Corporate Contributions Surging For New Republican Leaders In House

By Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, January 22, 2011

The new Republican leaders in the House have received millions of dollars in contributions from banks, health insurers and other major business interests, which are pressing for broad reversals of Democratic policies that affect corporations, according to disclosure records and interviews.

Much of that money flowed to the GOP chairmen overseeing banking, energy and other key committees - leaders who will play a central role in setting the House agenda over the next two years.

The impetus behind such largess is simple: Many companies and industry groups hope House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) and other Republicans will succeed in rolling back Democratic policies they find objectionable, including environmental and Wall Street regulations.

GOP lawmakers took their first step in that direction Wednesday by voting to repeal President Obama's health-care overhaul law. Major health-care firms and their employees gave Republican leaders at least $5 million over the past two years, including well over $2 million to Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.), according to a Washington Post analysis of contribution data.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012103187.html?hpid=topnews

[ladjf]

1. The Government has been taken over right in front of our eyes.

Why is such activity not treated as the crime that it is?

[ellenfl]

2. because scotus said it was legal. eom