Many of the task force legislative members will be attending ALEC’s Life Sciences Academy this week with undisclosed drug industry representatives.
Revealed: ALEC’s Health and Human Services Task Force Legislative Members
By David Armiak | at
Featured Investigations
Pay-to-Play Group Garnered Sackler’s Access to Attorneys General Deciding their Fate
By Scott Zimmerman | at
The makers of an opioid tied to 400,000 deaths had special access to the attorneys general that chose to take their “sweetheart deal” — saving the owners of the company from admitting wrongdoing — thanks to a pay-for-play group called the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Massachusetts Law Could Blunt the Effect of Janus’s Attack on Unions
By Don Wiener | at
On September 19, the Massachusetts legislature overrode Republican Governor Charlie Baker’s veto of a bill that would help public employee unions maintain dues-paying members.
I Want My Climate Back: The Promise of Climate Restoration
By Alex Carlin | at
Emissions reductions alone cannot avert climate ruin, so it’s good news that C02 removal is feasible and affordable.
Wisconsin Legislators Seek to Criminalize Climate, Environmental Protests with Latest Bill
By David Armiak | at
The Wisconsin bill echoes similar “critical infrastructure protection” model bills pushed out by the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Council of State Governments over the last two years.
Convention of States Fires Up Base for Push to Rewrite U.S. Constitution
By David Armiak | at
Right-wing group holds its first “Leadership Summit” in Colonial Williamsburg as part of drive to radically curtail the federal government’s ability to safeguard civil rights, protect the environment, and regulate big business.
Election Manipulators Use ALEC To Push Their Partisan Power Grabs Against Voters
By Jay Riestenberg | at
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is up to it again: promoting new ways to restrict political representation and under one of the central foundations of American democracy.
Workers Lose in Koch’s Georgia-Pacific Restructuring
By Don Wiener | at
Koch Industries’ paper subsidiary cuts more than 2,100 jobs in the past two years, with taxpayers left holding the bill.
ALEC Fails to Denounce Dangerous and Racist Views of Its Leaders and Members
By Scott Zimmerman | at
White nationalist statements and ties draw fire from many within GOP, but not ALEC.
ALEC Doubles Down on Trump, Corporate Agenda at Annual Meeting in Texas
By David Armiak | at
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meets this week in Austin, the capital of the Lone Star State, for its 46th Annual Meeting at the posh JW Marriott hotel.