Lisa Gilbert
Lisa Gilbert is the director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.
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Views Sunday, April 12, 2020 Only Oversight of Oversight Will Keep Profiteers From Siphoning Stimulus Money Into Their Own Wallets Dwell on $2 trillion. Hand out a dollar every second, and it takes almost two weeks to get to $1 million. It takes about 31 years to hand out $1 billion. And about 30,000 years to hand out $1 trillion. American taxpayers are now handing out $2 trillion — 60,000 years’ worth of $1 per second. That’s... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Impeach Trump? Yes. But Don't Forget Complicity of McConnell and GOP President Donald Trump's abuse of power, corruption and disdain for constitutional values has been evident since he first took office. And his behavior gets worse by the day as he proudly boasts that he can’t be criminally charged while in office. While the spotlight rightly is on Trump and his... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 20, 2018 Deregulation of Wall Street Is Plain and Simple Corruption Ten years after Wall Street crashed the economy, costing millions of Americans their homes, the jobs and their savings, Wall Street is busily dismantling the safeguards Congress erected to prevent another catastrophe. This war on regulation, documented in a recent report from the Coalition for... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 14, 2017 We the People Do Care About Trump's Taxes Despite pledging he would release his taxes as soon as his " routine audit " was completed, right after his inauguration President Donald Trump flip flopped. When prodded, his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, glibly said that Trump had changed his tune because " the people don't care " about his taxes... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 21, 2016 On Sixth Anniversary of Citizens United, Obama Still Has Chance to Act Two-thousand, one-hundred-and-ninety days. That is how long it has been since the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission by a vote of five to four. So far, we have heard quite a bit from President Obama about the problem of big money in politics. The power of the bully... Read more |