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Healthcare lobbying face to face

Posted on June 30th, 2009

A new NPR investigative series, Dollar Politics, opened with an introduction to the lobbyists positioning themselves in the national healthcare reform debate. The Web site for the stories asks NPR’s audience to help connect names to lobbyists shown in a panoramic photo from a recent senate committee meeting.

Posted in Broadcast, Government (federal/state/local), Politics
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