Half of Hillary Clinton’s Speaking Fees Came From Groups Also Lobbying Congress

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Half of Hillary Clinton’s Speaking Fees Came From Groups Also Lobbying Congress

Philip Elliott @Philip_Elliott May 19, 2015

Groups with giant lobbying budgets gave Clinton big speaking fees ahead of 2016 presidential campaign

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The Democratic presidential candidate earned $10.2 million in 2014, her first full calendar year after leaving the State Department. Of that, $4.6 million came from groups that also spent on lobbying Congress that year, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

In all, the corporations and trade groups that Clinton spoke to in 2014 spent $72.5 million lobbying Congress that same year.

Asked Tuesday if there were conflicts of interest in speaking to these groups, Clinton was curt with reporters in Cedar Falls, Iowa. “No,” she said.

“Obviously, Bill and I have been blessed and we’re very grateful for the opportunities that we had but we’ve never forgotten where we’ve come from,” she added.


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Take the Pacific trade deal being negotiated by President Obama. In all, groups and corporations that are pushing for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be approved spent almost $3 million to hear from Clinton. The signatories to one pro-trade letter, dated March 2014, paid more than $1 million in speaking fees in 2014.

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http://time.com/3889577/hillary-clinton-paid-speeches-lobbyists-influence/

[Kittycat]

1. From another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7645557

Corporate rights trump us.

[Deny and Shred]

2. But she's still an outsider

and as a progressive, she takes a backseat to nobody. Pay no attention to the Millions she makes personally inside the beltway, she is a reformer.

You can believe she will turn on those leeches who are corrupting the system - she'll turn on them with venom. She owes them nothing, she'll expend all her political capital fighting against them for the middle class - you'll see. She's been playing 14th dimensional chess and has them right where she wants them. Boy are those donors naive.

[AzDar]

3. This is obscene. If she is the Nominee, we will be DEMOLISHED.

[Jefferson23]

4. I say...No, right back at ya, Hillary. n/t