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By Karen Tumulty | February 25, 2010 | +

The Sunlight Foundation is streaming this health care summit. Every time someone speaks, Sunlight shows their top donors. Check it out here.

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  • http://firstfarmandweatherreport.blogspot.com/ maxwelldog

    I’m only getting partial statements and tyhen freeze.
    I like the extras being broadcast from Sunlight, but, I’m just an individual with DSL…
    Wonder if it’s up anywhere else….

  • Ivy_B

    maxwelldog, I also have DSL. Am listening to the CBS feed.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1n

  • http://firstfarmandweatherreport.blogspot.com/ maxwelldog

    yes…still old me learning to ‘look around’ as it were. Found msnbc, same thing, but, thanx!
    (I still call it a computer contraption, too)

  • jackmurphy131

    A divided Supreme Court on Jan 21st swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as much as they want to support or oppose individual candidates.
    The decision shakes the foundation of corporate limitations on federal and state elections that stretch back a century, and prompted sharp partisan reaction. Republican leaders, still celebrating Tuesday’s Senate upset in Massachusetts, cheered the ruling as a victory for free speech and predicted a surge in corporate support for GOP candidates in November’s midterm elections. As tere been a coup? http://www.murphybookcompany.com

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