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Public Citizen’s Submitted Ethics Complaint Regarding COVID-19 Lobbying
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How Corporate Lobbyists Use the Executive Branch to Halt Progress

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors
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Every day, big banks, big polluters and big tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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Poll: 71% of Voters Support Strong Regulation to Protect the Public

Amazon’s Pandemic Price Gouging Shows Need for New Federal Law
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Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

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Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Government Should End Monopoly Control of Remdesivir

NIH Agrees With Public Citizen, Will Conduct Preclinical Trials of the Potential COVID-19 Treatment GS-441524
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Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives. Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely. For decades, we have fought for progressive alternatives that benefit people and the planet.

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The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Trump Administration Continues Assault on Climate, Americans’ Health With Obama-Era Methane Rule Rollback

On Climate, House Democrats Move in the Right Direction
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Exposing unethical clinical trials, protecting human research subjects

NIH Agrees With Public Citizen, Will Conduct Preclinical Trials of the Potential COVID-19 Treatment GS-441524

Letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, FDA Commissioner and NIH Director Regarding Coronavirus Human Challenge Studies

The FDA’s Reckless Oversight of Implanted Spinal Cord Stimulators for Pain Relief Has Seriously Endangered Patients

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The Fight to Save The USPS Has Only Just Begun

Public Citizen’s Submitted Ethics Complaint Regarding COVID-19 Lobbying

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

How Corporate Lobbyists Use the Executive Branch to Halt Progress

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Poll: 71% of Voters Support Strong Regulation to Protect the Public

Amazon’s Pandemic Price Gouging Shows Need for New Federal Law

Fight Pharma Greed

Win Medicare for All

Government Should End Monopoly Control of Remdesivir

NIH Agrees With Public Citizen, Will Conduct Preclinical Trials of the Potential COVID-19 Treatment GS-441524

Fight for Strong Worker Rights Enforcement!

Tell TV Networks to Call Climate Change a Crisis

Trump Administration Continues Assault on Climate, Americans’ Health With Obama-Era Methane Rule Rollback

On Climate, House Democrats Move in the Right Direction

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Exposing unethical clinical trials, protecting human research subjects

NIH Agrees With Public Citizen, Will Conduct Preclinical Trials of the Potential COVID-19 Treatment GS-441524

Letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, FDA Commissioner and NIH Director Regarding Coronavirus Human Challenge Studies

The FDA’s Reckless Oversight of Implanted Spinal Cord Stimulators for Pain Relief Has Seriously Endangered Patients

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