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  Kyle Kyle  @JZuk Impressive work here, Jon!
JZuk JZuk  Roll Call releases 50 Richest Members of Congress list - John Kerry, Darrell Issa, and Jane Harman are the three richest members
JZuk JZuk  Senator Baucus is trying to change elements of the climate bill http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909...
JZuk JZuk  Robert Lloyd is widely seen as the successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/42452
JZuk JZuk  Too many czars? Ron Bloom is promoted from Czarevitch of Cars to Czar of Manufacturing. Perhaps if his tenure produces an actual increase in manufacturing employment, we can call him Ron the Great, Father of Industry, Emperor of All the Rust Belt.
  Aleinad Aleinad  @JZuk sigh. this is the state of our union: http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/...
JZuk JZuk  Van Jones resigned as green jobs czar last night following a right-wing smear campaign led by Glen Beck. A key focus of the campaign was Jones's connections to "extremist organizations". Let's build out his profile (and Beck's) to get a more comprehensive view of this affair.
JZuk JZuk  White House releases details of recent visits by health industry executives - http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/42329

Details President Obama's visits with Billy Tauzin, William Weldon, Karen Ignagni, and others.
  heaney heaney  health care analysts - this is a friendly reminder that our contest ends tomorrow night at midnight! we're at 355 and counting - anything you can contribute helps. prizes for everyone who hits 150 points! if you need direction, write me a note back @adamclarkestes @adrooshan @Aleinad @amyklo @bethb @ddwriter @donnag @gweezy @heaney @idearMan @JZuk @Karoli @kevin @Kyle @lermanzo @Matthew @MDMRO @mom792 @Priscilla @saraf @sundin @Zora
  heaney heaney  HCIU analysts - the list is looking amazing! we're at 252 and the list is growing by the minute. let's try to get to 300 by the end of the weekend. if you need access to the spreadsheet we're working from, just shoot me an email. and don't forget, we've got tees for everyone that reaches 150 points! @adamclarkestes @adrooshan @Aleinad @amyklo @bethb @ddwriter @donnag @gweezy @heaney @idearMan @JZuk @Karoli @kevin @Kyle @lermanzo @Matthew @MDMRO @mom792 @Priscilla @saraf @sundin @Zora
  heaney heaney  @adamclarkestes @adrooshan @Aleinad @amyklo @bethb @ddwriter @donnag @gweezy @heaney @idearMan @JZuk @Karoli @kevin @Kyle @lermanzo @Matthew @MDMRO @mom792 @Priscilla @saraf @sundin @Zora Health Care Analysts - wanted to make sure you saw all the attention we've gotten lately for all the great research you've done. Check out Ellen's blog post http://blog.littlesis.org/2009/08/12/litt...
Keep up the good work - just a few weeks left before Congress heads back!
JZuk JZuk  Paulson made 24 phone calls to Goldman Sachs's CEO Lloyd Blankfein during initial days of financial crisis - http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/08...
  kevin kevin  hey everyone,

Today marks the start of the Lobbyist Editing Challenge, introduced here by Erin / @heaney -- http://blog.littlesis.org/2009/08/04/lobb...


You can keep track of who is in the lead from the group page: http://littlesis.org/group/4

Prizes and props go to the top three analysts (if digging up dirt on healthcare lobbyists isn't already enough of a reward).

happy editing,
Kevin

(this message sent to all members of the HCIU group:

@adamclarkestes @adrooshan @Aleinad @amyklo @bethb @ddwriter @donnag @gweezy @heaney @idearMan @JZuk @Karoli @kevin @Kyle @lermanzo @Matthew @MDMRO @mom792 @Priscilla @sundin @Zora )
JZuk JZuk  Goldman Sachs Group PAC has contributed some big money to Friends of Hillary among others
  kevin kevin  big ups to @JZuk @elmar99 @mom792 @jgmass @sundin @mariec @TSBr -- new analysts making edits this past week, some of them for the new Health Care Investigative Unit.

join the group at http://littlesis.org/group/4 if you haven't already (and want to help track down those health care lobbyists).

also, special kudos to @WileECoyote, top analyst this week!
JZuk JZuk  @Aleinad - awesome czar list! Soon he'll have more czars than the Romanovs did.
  Aleinad Aleinad  @JZuk tell me about it! ;)
JZuk JZuk  @Kyle - it's all pretty intuitive... and quite addictive
  Kyle Kyle  @JZuk Thanks for signing up, Jon! Let me know if you need any help figuring out how to make edits here.