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How Lobbyists & Lawmakers Work to Make Laws

Watch a DVD about how companies partner with state legislators to create self-serving laws that favor corporations. In the past, these corporations partnered to pass laws on raising credit card limits, privatizing schools and prisons, and modifying the Clean Water Act.  The widespread influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is featured in the DVD, which also covers what is being done to restrict ALEC from growing stronger.

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