Lisa Gilbert
Lisa Gilbert is the director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.
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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 |