Joe Manchin's Deep Corporate Ties

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Other widely adopted ALEC bills involved reducing benefits for welfare recipients and allowing companies to self-audit their compliance with environmental laws and then seal those records from the public. "
52% : Since its founding in 1973, the organization's work has laid the foundation for thousands of laws passed by state legislatures that have weakened labor unions, redirected public-school funding to private schools, hobbled the welfare state, restricted voting rights, and blocked or reshaped environmental regulations in favor of business interests. "
42% : Welfare is Methuselized poverty, and it replaces family with dependence on government.
36% : McCoy added that their conversations were aimed at ridding legislation of "negative stuff" -- emissions reductions, taxes on fossil-fuel companies.
33% : Manchin also sued the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers over new rules that limited mountaintop-removal mining, accusing the Obama Administration of attempting "to destroy our coal industry."

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