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Big Business Is Taking A Bite Out of Corporate Oversight

By Phil Mattera, Corporate Research Project. Posted December 16, 2006.


Will Democrats continue in the Republicans' tradition of slavish adherence to the desires of big business? An army of corporate lobbyists in Washington is on the offensive and making headway.

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Phil Mattera is research director of Good Jobs First and head of its Corporate Research Project.

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