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By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
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By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyRemember how social conservatives said they would bolt the Republican party if Rudy Giuliani was the GOP nominee? Well, The Hill reports that some of the more level-headed conservatives such as Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins are backtracking from that vow. Speaking to reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor in advance of next week's Values Voter Summit, Bauer and Perkins backed away from earlier threats that Christian conservatives would consider a third-party bid if a pro-abortion rights candidate wins the GOP nomination. They both agreed that supporting such a bid ...
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