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*Advertising tactics turn some groups against Facebook. *Musk and David Sacks removed from donor list on website.
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*Advertising tactics turn some groups against Facebook. *Musk and David Sacks removed from donor list on website.
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Republicans denounce the IRS after it apologized for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election.
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NEW YORK, April 30- Closing arguments began on Tuesday in the fraud trial of two former fundraising associates of John Liu, a Democratic candidate in New York City's mayoral race, with prosecutors saying that he would have known the campaign routinely used illegal methods to solicit funds.
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The SEC is being pressed to require public corporations to disclose political donations, a move that could transform the growing world of secret campaign spending. The NYT reports.
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At this hour, President Obama is visiting victims of the Boston terror attack, reports CNBC's Scott Cohn.
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ATHERTON, Calif., April 4- President Barack Obama acknowledged on Thursday that getting big changes to gun laws through the U.S. Congress would be challenging, telling donors at a California fundraiser gun control was a tougher issue than immigration reform.
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WASHINGTON, March 12- A Senate oversight hearing of the Federal Communications Commission took an unexpected turn on Tuesday toward a hot political topic that telecommunications regulators rarely address: donor disclosure in political advertising.
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Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, warns that growth will go down and unemployment will go up as a result of these forced budget cuts.
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The very latest on fiscal cliff talks, with CNBC's John Harwood, Steve Liesman & Larry Kudlow.
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The House is expected to vote on Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" budget proposal tonight, reports CNBC's John Harwood.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 9- President Barack Obama's inauguration committee is accepting corporate donations to help fund the parade and other events associated with his Jan. 21 inauguration after tapped-out Democratic donors spent huge sums helping him get elected.
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Emboldened by gains in Congress, Democrats appear less willing to compromise in “fiscal cliff" talks on cuts to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, The New York Times reports.
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The impasse in Congress over the “fiscal cliff” could be the Grinch that steals Christmas if it isn’t resolved soon.
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With Congress returning from Thanksgiving, here’s the good news for those looking to avoid the “fiscal cliff”: Members of both parties do agree on one LARGE point — taxes for the wealthy should go up.
