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U.S. Chamber Works Behind the Scenes to Gut Whistleblower Protections Efforts to gut the federal False Claims Act backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce got a hearing on Capitol Hill. The federal push builds on previous back-door Chamber efforts through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to discourage states from pursuing fraud claims. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Spring Task Force Summit Agenda in Pittsburgh 2016 Ironies abound in the 2016 agenda for the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which brings together corporate lobbyists and state legislators at luxury hotels to vote side-by-side on "model bills" that then pop up in states across the country. This spring's Task Force Summit, held in the glittering Omni William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, featured a discussion on "Taxpayer Funded Lobbying Disclosure." Read the rest of this item here. DCI Group Subpoenaed in Expanding Exxon Climate Denial Investigation DCI Group, a Washington DC public relations and lobbying firm, is the latest group subpoenaed in an expanding investigation by state attorneys general into the funding of climate change denial by ExxonMobil, according to court filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). Read the rest of this item here. CMD Exclusive: Why I Chose to Get Arrested in Defense of Our Democracy On April 18, I joined hundreds of fellow citizens who were arrested as part of a non-violent act of civil disobedience on the steps of our U.S. Capitol. I stood with people of all ages and all walks of life. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC "Right to Work" Law Tossed Out in Wisconsin Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Faust struck down the state's private-sector "right-to-work" law late today. In February 2015, Governor Walker and the Wisconsin legislature pushed through a private-sector right-to-work bill over the objections of thousands of workers and 450 Wisconsin construction firms who rallied against the bill. Workers in right to work states have significantly lower wages and fewer benefits. Read the rest of this item here.