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HBS Working Knowledge January 25, 2012 Michael Blanding	A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C. New research suggests the number of companies affecting government policy through lobbying may be smaller -- but more powerful -- than previously thought.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Selena Maranjian	1,500 People Worked Against You Lobbyists, hired by banks, investment firms, insurers, and real estate companies, fought many of the recently proposed reforms in Congress, with mixed results for us citizens and consumers.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Passes! Here's Where to Invest Now Some healthy suggestions for your portfolio.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009	Health Reform: A Timeline The latest battle over how to overhaul the U.S. health-care system intensified last fall with the election of Barack Obama.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2011 Dan Newman	How These Companies Earned a 22,000% Return A dollar invested in lobbying Congress can give a company fantastic returns.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: It's Not Over Yet Massachusetts has spoken with its election of Scott Brown to the Senate. What's up next?
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: Two-Thirds Finished The U.S. Senate voted this morning to pass the health-care reform bill, moving us closer to capping off the long process that's weighed on health-care and insurance stocks this year.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009	Roundtable: Will Health-Care Reform Kill Capitalism? Motley Fool analysts give their opinions on the health-care reform debate.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Is Dead. Probably. Breaking up the bill doesn't seem like the answer. What do insurers and pharmaceutical companies have to say?
Reason November 2007 David Weigel	John Edwards vs. the Lobbyists A presidential candidate promises to clean up Washington by trashing the First Amendment
The Motley Fool January 26, 2011 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Lives: Here's Where to Invest State of the Union turned investment thesis regarding health insurance companies.
Finance & Development June 2011	Making Friends A strong connection exists between financial industry lobbying and favorable financial legislation.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Health-Care Investor's Nightmare When it comes to health-care reform, no news is not good news; the House's recent plan to delay voting on a health-care reform bill until September should have investors reaching for the antacids.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2009 Brian Orelli	You Can't Have One Without the Other Heath insurers are playing fair.
Managed Care November 2003 John Carroll	Will Bigger Mean Better As AAHP, HIAA Merge? Health plans can expect to pay less in dues, but whether the new combination of the Health Insurance Association of America and the American Association of Health Plans will have increased influence with legislators remains to be seen.
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Rubin & Donmoyer	GE's Tax-Break Guard Dogs The diversified conglomerate is likely to spend big bucks on lobbyists as the battle to reshape the U.S. Tax Code heats up.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Are Health-Care Stocks a Buy? Health-care stocks have underperformed the market so far this year. Is it time for a turnaround?
The Motley Fool July 23, 2010 Bryan White	3 Buys Suffering From the Health-Care Hangover Three ideas in value territory for a much-needed sector.
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Lorie Konish	Dodd-Frank Prompts Brokerage Industry to Increase Lobbying Efforts With many issues surrounding the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act set to come to a head in the next year, advocacy is more important than ever for financial industry groups.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Alyce Lomax	Weekly Walk of Shame: Corporations Are People, Too Would you trust these "people" with your best interests? The relationship between politicians, special interests, and corporate "persons" was sketchy even before the Court's recent ruling.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Insurers to Washington: We're Not the Problem Insurers say they're a small piece of the problem pie.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2009 Charly Travers	Companies That Will Thrive Under Obamacare They are out there.
Managed Care August 2002 Maureen Glabman	Lobbyists That the Founders Just Never Dreamed of The "right ... to petition the government" has come a long way in over 200 years, and health care organizations are not shy in exercising it.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 Terhune & Epstein	The Health Insurers Have Already Won How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2003 Will Leitch	Lobbying for Independents The Financial Planning Association has lamented, along with many of its members, the absence of a specific lobbying organization for independent broker/dealers. The FPA is now trying to do something about it.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	The Weekly Walk of Shame: Wall Street Lobbyists and Your Money Wall Street has been spending an estimated $1.4 million per day lobbying to weaken rules that would limit the ability to imperil the economy, according to Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor charged with oversight of the TARP.program.
Managed Care September 2003 John Carroll	Some Lobbying Tactics Have Pols Seeing Red More than 600 groups have lined up against association health plans, lobbying exhaustively against them in Congress. But the manner in which the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association went about it raised some hackles.
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Drew Armstrong	Guess Who Opposes Reversing the Individual Mandate in Health Reform? As Republicans take aim at the individual mandate in the health reform law, health-care industry groups are lobbying to preserve it.
IndustryWeek October 20, 2010	Be Your Own Business Advocate Small manufacturers can learn how to lobby successfully.
IEEE Spectrum October 2012 Tam Harbert	Internet Giants Adopt New Lobbying Tactics Google and Facebook are spending heavily on traditional lobbying firms, even as they marshal their users to influence the U.S. Congress
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 Eamon Javers	Inside The Hidden World Of Earmarks An investigation reveals how company spending on lobbyists can pay off.
IndustryWeek January 11, 2012	Compromise on Trucking Rules Leaves Nobody Happy DOT's new trucking regulations could hike the cost of transportation for manufacturers.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Rich Smith	YRC Worldwide Confounds the Skeptics This trucker remains stuck in neutral -- its stock price notwithstanding.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	In Most Markets, a Few Health Insurers Dominate A publicly funded plan would increase health-insurance competition, forcing powerful players to bring down costs
Fast Company December 2000 Amy Wilson Sheldon	Keep on Truckin' - to the Web Last December, transportation industry veteran Brian Kinsey took a job as CEO of CarrierPoint Inc., a business-to-business marketplace for shippers, drivers, and trucking companies, where he is working on moving the transportation industry to the Web...
The Motley Fool May 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Company Is Giving Away Revenue Bad news for investors in the health-care industry: the companies you invest in just pledged to give back 1.5% of their expected U.S. revenue growth to President Obama.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Forward Progress If only the top-flight logistics company Forward Air were trading at a discount. Currently, these shares just don't look like a bargain.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2009 Selena Maranjian	Will Health-Care Reform Hurt Investors? The bad news here is that there's quite a bit of uncertainty around this issue, and that some health-care-focused companies may end up suffering. Read on to see who.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Old Dominion, Fresh Profits The performance of this trucker continues to prove that management and a solid operating plan matter. Trucking will have its ups and downs, and Old Dominion's stock will be vulnerable to perceptions about the industry.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Biggest Market Opportunity: Health-Care Stalemate? If it happens, here's how to play it.
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Bob Veres	Fiduciary for All If we want to clean up the financial services world, we're going to have to change our tactics. The more I look at our political system, the less likely it seems Congress would ever vote to rein in Wall Street's predatory behaviors.
InternetNews April 18, 2007 Roy Mark	Dems, Republicans Unite on Patent Reform Identical bills introduced in House and Senate to reduce infringement awards and to change Patent Office procedures.
Geotimes April 2004 Kendy & Vranes	Breaking Down the Barriers: A Two-Part Series, Part 1 Although it is a tired cliche, knowledge is power, and nowhere is that more true than in legislative politics. Your members of Congress cannot do their jobs without citizens' input. In other words, they need to be lobbied.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Now That's What I Call a Healthy Dividend Increase UnitedHealth ups its token dividend substantially.
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Brian Orelli	Pushing Pills Spending on drug lobbying increases. What do companies have to show for it? The key for investors is to find drug companies that are spending their money wisely.
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AFP eWire August 11, 2008	Most Nonprofits Devote Little Resources to Advocacy A recent survey of lobbying and advocacy activity by nonprofits shows that while many organizations are involved in policy advocacy, relatively little time, attention or resources are spent on the activity, hindering deeper policy involvement.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	UnitedHealth: Beats Earnings, and Gets Beat Down? UnitedHealth was healthy last quarter, but on Wall Street, it's the future that counts.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Morgan Housel	UnitedHealth: Bargain or Value Trap? A dismal start to 2008 sent the insurer's shares tumbling, and the news keeps getting worse and worse.