Nat'l Feder of Indep Business

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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is a lobbying group that calls itself "the voice of small business."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> However, the group has been shown to lobby on issues that favor large corporate interests and run counter to the interests of small businesses.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-opinion-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a> News reports have also found that NFIB, which claims to be non-partisan, engages in partisan politics, and receives millions in hidden contributions.

Small business owners run the gamut politically. For instance, 33 percent identify as Republicans, 32 percent as Democrats, and 29 percent as Independent.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> However, NFIB accepted a $3.7 million gift in 2010 from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Crossroads_GPS" title="Crossroads GPS" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Crossroads GPS</a>, a group affiliated with Republican political operative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Karl Rove</a> that overwhelmingly endorses and financially supports Republican candidates.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-eggen-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a> According to new data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), in 2010 the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm" title="NFIB's Legal Arm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB Small Business Legal Center</a> (SBLC) received $1.15 million from "conservative 501(c)(3) conduit group" Donors Trust, a major contributor to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" title="Koch brothers" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Koch brothers</a>' <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity_Foundation" title="Americans for Prosperity Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Americans for Prosperity Foundation</a>. Other contributions include the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a>, which gave to a wide range of conservative groups including the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a>

In June 2012, Congress launched an inquiry into NFIB’s hidden sources of funding, which include large individual donations of over $1 million. However, NFIB has refused to disclose its donors.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-eggen-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a>

A 2006 report quoted NFIB members who said the group was inflating its membership size of 650,000.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> NFIB now claims 350,000 members.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>

While the average small business owner makes slightly over $100,000,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> NFIB filings with the IRS show that CEO <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#NFIB_Leadership" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Danner</a>’s salary in 2011 was $743,676.

Entities associated with NFIB include the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm" title="NFIB's Legal Arm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">SBLC</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a> the Young Entrepreneur Foundation,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a> NFIB Research Foundation,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a> and the Political Action Committee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB_SAFE_Trust" title="NFIB SAFE Trust" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">SAFE Trust</a> (Save America's Free Enterprise Trust).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Affordable Care Act: NFIB was the chief litigant against the 2010 federal health care reform bill, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According to an IRS filing, NFIB spent $2.9 million in 2010 to litigate the Supreme Court lawsuit against the ACA.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-wsj-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a> The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the health care law 5-4 on June 28, 2012, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court’s four more liberal members.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[20]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Taxation: According to federal lobby disclosure reports, NFIB had a $3 million lobbying budget last year. The top issues it pursued with those funds included opposing higher individual tax rates, fighting the "death tax," and supporting "business tax reform." As Mother Jones reports: "Few among the legions of small business owners that it represents will benefit from its lobbying. Only 3 percent of small businesses net more than $250,000 a year, the lowest income that would be affected by Obama's tax plan. This is one reason why a variety of rival small business groups now accuse the NFIB of doing exactly what it was founded to prevent: selling out small business owners to benefit the rich and powerful."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[21]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paid Sick Leave: NFIB has spent an unknown, but significant, amount of money and institutional caché fighting common sense proposals to give workers the right to earn sick time. However, a recent small business survey by NFIB found that providing mandatory sick and family leave was not a critical concern of NFIB members. Mandatory sick leave did not fall into the top 10, top 20 or even the top 60 "critical concerns" of NFIB members. In fact, sick leave ranked 64th of 75 issues studied.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[22]</a> Please see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB_Opposition_to_Earned_Sick_Days" title="NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days</a> for more.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Stop The HIT Coalition: NFIB also organizes separately branded coalitions to advance specific lobbying agendas. Examples include the "Stop the HIT" coalition, which seeks to repeal a fee on health insurance companies that is part of the Affordable Care Act.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[23]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations: The Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations coalition opposes environmental protections such as lead paint rules and new power plant emission standards.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[24]</a></li>

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</li><li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Minimum Wage: In 2007, NFIB joined the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Restaurant_Association" title="National Restaurant Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Restaurant Association</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/McDonalds" title="McDonalds" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">McDonalds</a>', and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Outback_Steakhouse" title="Outback Steakhouse" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Outback Steakhouse</a> in an effort to turn back minimum wage campaigns in state legislatures.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[25]</a> The chairman of its New Jersey leadership council, Earl Hall, weighed in against family and medical leave in 2007, calling it "an inappropriate gift" and saying it would tempt employees "to find an excuse to be unproductive for one-fifth of the year by encouraging employees to reduce their availability for work,"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[26]</a> when in fact all evidence shows that workers do not abuse medical leave and that family leave promotes economic security, labor force attachment, and improved health outcomes.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paid Sick Leave: NFIB has fought the right of employees to earn paid sick leave in multiple states and municipalities including Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts (see below), Milwaukee (where it supported a lawsuit to overturn the law),<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[27]</a> Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Minnesota, Vermont, Washington state, and West Virginia. Please see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB_Opposition_to_Earned_Sick_Days" title="NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days</a> for more.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Collective Bargaining: In 2011, NFIB of Ohio joined with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Business Roundtable in supporting a multimillion dollar campaign to defend the state’s controversial proposed law to restrict collective bargaining rights in the state.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[28]</a> The bill was overturned in a state referendum.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[29]</a></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In March 2013, the Philadelphia City Council passed, by an 11 to 6 vote, a paid sick days bill that would have allowed employees without sick leave to earn up to four paid sick days per year.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-NBCP-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[31]</a> Over 180,000 workers in Philadelphia do not have access to paid sick days and would have benefited from this measure. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a> However, major opponents of the paid sick leave bill, special interest groups aligned with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>(ALEC), successfully lobbied Mayor Nutter to veto it<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a>. The bill died when the council was unable to sway enough nay votes to override the mayoral veto; they needed just one more.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-NBCP-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[31]</a> These groups, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Restaurant_Association" title="National Restaurant Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Restaurant Association</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a>, and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) are all tied to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a> The case of Philadelphia was unique in "the participation of telecommunications giant <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Comcast" title="Comcast" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Comcast</a>, Philadelphia's highest grossing company and an <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a> member."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a> The corporation spent over $108,000 on lobbying, most of which went towards opposition to the paid sick days bill.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a>

More than 40 percent of the work force in the United States cannot take sick days without losing wages or possibly their jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Major cities such as Washington DC, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, as well as the state of Connecticut, have put paid sick day laws on the books; New York City will soon follow suit.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a> The initiative is quickly moving to cities across the country "and in each case, the state and local branches of the National Restaurant Association, the NFIB, and the Chamber are actively opposing it" as they did in Philadelphia.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a>Philadelphia was not the first instance where these special interest groups came together to thwart this legislation. City of Milwaukee voters passed a paid sick days referendum with over 70 percent of the vote in 2008 but when <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_Walker" title="Scott Walker" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Scott Walker</a> became Wisconsin's governor in 2011, the state affiliate of the National Restaurant Association and the local Chamber lobbied Walker to back "a bill to overturn this expression of local democratic will and preempt any local paid sick day ordinance."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-BF-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a>NFIB Financing

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he year it launched the lawsuit against the health care law, NFIB received $3.7 million from Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (better known as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Crossroads_GPS" title="Crossroads GPS" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Crossroads GPS</a>), a nonprofit group affiliated with Republican strategist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Karl Rove</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[33]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-34" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[34]</a> The grant from Crossroads GPS was part of a $16 million grant program that served as a "trial run" for what Crossroads President Steven Law dubbed "funding the right."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-35" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[35]</a>

According to new data compiled by CRP, in 2010 the SBLC received $1.15 million from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Trust" title="Donors Trust" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Donors Trust</a>, a "conservative 501(c)(3) conduit group" and major donor to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" title="Koch brothers" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Koch brothers</a>' <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity_Foundation" title="Americans for Prosperity Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Americans for Prosperity Foundation</a> (donating $7.65 million to AFP Foundation in 2010).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-36" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[36]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-37" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[37]</a> This $1.15 million from Donors Trust accounted for more than half of the SBLC's revenue that year.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-AJS-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[38]</a>

NFIB failed to disclose the sources of these and other large donations amounting to over $10 million in undisclosed six-figure contributions from 2010 to 2011. These include donations of $2.04 million, $1.65 million, and $1.2 million, amounts unlikely to have been donated by small business owners who, as NFIB itself acknowledges, often run shoestring operations.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-AJS-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[38]</a>

The SBLC also received a $100,000 contribution from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2010, explicitly marked in the Bradley Foundation's IRS filings "to support health-care litigation efforts."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-39" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[39]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[40]</a> The Bradley Foundation gave to a range of conservative groups in 2010, including $500,000 to Americans for Prosperity Foundation and $95,000 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[41]</a>

In contrast, in 2009, before NFIB launched its health care lawsuit, the biggest contribution to NFIB from an outside source was $21,000, and the biggest to the SBLC was $7,500.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-AJS-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[38]</a> Please see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm" title="NFIB's Legal Arm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB's Legal Arm</a> for more.

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"Some in Washington call this message-laundering," wrote Businessweek. "Americans hold small business in higher regard than any institution other than the military. Groups with a small business pedigree make attractive mouthpieces for messages that lawmakers and the public would be skeptical about hearing from, say, big insurance companies." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-43" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[43]</a>

The donation "underscores how deeply the small business group has allied itself with the industry and special interest groups that seek to weaken the Affordable Care Act," the Huffington Post noted. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-44" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[44]</a>

The targeted healthcare provision would impose a tax on healthcare premiums as of 2014, costing the insurance industry approximately $100 billion over the next decade. The NFIB's opposition to the provision included lobbying legislators on the state and federal levels, and to push state legislators to pass resolutions opposing the tax.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-Nat_Journal_May_13-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[42]</a>

AHIP and the NFIB announced a collaboration in 2011 to fight the tax on healthcare premiums, stating they were "partnering to get out the facts about the impact the premium tax will have on the cost of coverage and to build bipartisan support to prevent it from going into effect in 2014."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-45" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[45]</a>

AHIP made a similar backdoor contribution to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> when President Obama's healthcare reform was being considered, The $100 million contribution "allowed insurers to publicly stake out a pro-reform position while privately funding the leading antireform lobbying group in Washington," The National Journal wrote.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-Nat_Journal_May_13-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[42]</a>

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In August of 2012, NFIB announced a $2 million ad campaign to aid eight Republican House candidates in tight congressional races. They ran an ad in Nevada thanking Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Joe Heck for "doing big things for small business", which you can listen to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nfib.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=uMsIH3eG8Ds%3d&tabid=1083" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">here</a>. They also ran similar ads in: IL-17 (Bobby Schilling); IA-03 (Tom Latham); NY-19 (Chris Gibson); CA-07 (Dan Lungren); NC-08 (attacking Larry Kissell to aid Richard Hudson); Maine-02 (attacking Mike Michaud to aid Kevin Raye); and OH-16 (Jim Renacci).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-47" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[47]</a>

In February 2012, Politico reported on NFIB's formation of "NFIB, The Voice of Free Enterprise, Inc," a new entity that "allows individuals and groups - who are not small businesses - to join its lobbying effort."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-48" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[48]</a> On October 8, 2012, NFIB's new Voice of Free Enterprise group disclosed spending $95,914 on mailings in 9 Senate races, including $10,453 for mailings opposing Claire McCaskill in the Missouri Senate race between McCaskill and Todd Akin. The other mailings were in Montana (supporting Denny Rehberg), Virginia (supporting George Allen), North Dakota (supporting Rick Berg), Connecticut (opposing Christopher S. Murphy), Wisconsin (opposing Tammy Baldwin), Ohio (supporting Josh Mandel), Florida (supporting Connie Mack), and Michigan (opposing Debbie Stabenow).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-49" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[49]</a>

In the 2012 election cycle overall, NFIB spent a total of $4,063,021 in outside spending, including $1,983,385 through its new "Voice of Free Enterprise" 501(c)(4) entity. Every dollar of its independent expenditures was spent either in support of Republican candidates ($2,583,943) or against Democratic candidates ($1,479,078).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-50" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[50]</a>

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Chart from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000000160&cycle=2012" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Open Secrets</a> showing NFIB's lopsided political spending.</div>

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In nine of the last ten election cycles, NFIB has given 90 percent or more of its political contributions to Republican candidates. In the 2012 election cycle, it gave $670,543 to Republican candidates and $11,000 to Democratic candidates, a 98 percent to 2 percent split.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-52" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[52]</a>

This skew toward the GOP is longstanding. On the CRP's "Heavy Hitters" list of top all-time political donors since 1989, NFIB ranked third in terms of the percentage of contributions given to Republican candidates.

Ninety-three percent of its contributions went to Republican candidates over this period. NFIB’s contributions are even more lopsided than the political spending of other well-known, well-funded lobbies, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Koch Industries</a> (91 percent to Republican candidates), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exxon_Mobil" title="Exxon Mobil" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Exxon Mobil</a> (86 percent to Republican candidates), and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Rifle Association</a> (82 percent to Republican candidates).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-53" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[53]</a>

Bloomberg reported that: "NFIB reported spending more than $1 million on ads to help elect Republicans in 2010, as well as another $1.5 million that it kept hidden and said was exempt from requirements that it disclose campaign spending."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-54" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[54]</a>

In a 2006 report by a newspaper in the group’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, NFIB members criticized the group for GOP partisanship.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-55" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[55]</a>

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As NFIB's top lobbyist, Danner has attended meetings with Republican leaders at least twice a month for 12 years, according to the Washington Post, and Danner was called "the go-to guy for the House Republican leadership" by a congressional staffer in 2005.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-Danner-56" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[56]</a>

According to NFIB’s IRS filings, Danner made $743,676 in 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-58" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[58]</a> Tax data show that 97 percent of small business owners earn less than $250,000 a year in take-home income<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-59" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[59]</a> or close to just a third of what Danner earns as NFIB’s President.

At the beginning of 2012, the group retained Mark Warren, former chief counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee, as a lobbyist.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[60]</a> The lobbying team does not appear to include a formerly Democratic lobbyist.

For more of Danner's right-wing ties, as well as those of its DC staff like Susan Eckerly, Stephen P. Woods, and Jean Card, please see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Right_Wing_Ties" title="NFIB's Right Wing Ties" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB's Right Wing Ties</a>.

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Congressman Raul Grijalva later sent a letter to the IRS asking them to investigate NFIB’s tax-exempt status.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-wp-61" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[61]</a> "Secrecy is not a small business value, nor is it in the interests of political integrity," Grijalva wrote. "If NFIB is determined not to say where its money comes from or who its members are, we must ask what the group is hiding."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-wp-61" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[61]</a>

NFIB has refused to disclose its hidden donors to Congress.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-62" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[62]</a>

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Today, NFIB claims 350,000 members.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-64" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[64]</a>

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<div style=" padding: 2px 5px; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a> is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In August 2011, NFIB's Massachusetts state director, William B. Vernon, received ALEC's "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Award_Winners" title="ALEC Award Winners" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Private Sector Member of the Year</a>" award.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-68" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[68]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The head of NFIB’s Alabama chapter, Rosemary Elebash, is also the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_State_Chairmen" title="ALEC State Chairmen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alabama private sector chair</a> for ALEC.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-69" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[69]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jean_Card" title="Jean Card" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jean Card</a>, NFIB's Vice President of Media and Communications, was a Task Force Director at ALEC from 1994 to 1996.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-70" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[70]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">When NFIB President Dan Danner was working for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George Mason University</a>, he was caught up in a controversy over funneling federal grant money to ALEC founder <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Weyrich" title="Paul Weyrich" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Paul Weyrich</a>’s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Congress_Research_and_Education_Foundation" title="Free Congress Research and Education Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Free Congress Research and Education Foundation</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-71" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[71]</a> Weyrich co-founded the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Heritage Foundation</a> in 1973.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ALEC</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Civil_Justice_Task_Force" title="Civil Justice Task Force" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Civil Justice Task Force</a> legal adviser, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Behrens" title="Mark Behrens" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mark Behrens</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,_Hardy_and_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy and Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Shook, Hardy and Bacon</a>, is also on the advisory board of the NFIB SBLC.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#cite_note-72" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[72]</a></li>

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<h2 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days</h2>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David M. Guernsey , Chair</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Timothy Clayton</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Maria Coakley David</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business#NFIB_Leadership" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan Danner</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nevin J. Groce</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">James M. Herr</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A. June Lennon</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Betty Neighbors</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Thomas Michael Nobis</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ruth Lopez Novodor</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">W. Bruce O'Donoghue</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeff Ready</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steve Schramm</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kurt E. Summers</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mary Blasinsky, Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Tammy Boehms. Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Casella, Senior Vice President, Sales</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Right_Wing_Ties#Susan_Eckerly" title="NFIB's Right Wing Ties" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Susan Eckerly</a>, Senior Vice President, Federal Public Policy</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mark Garzone, Senior Vice President, Marketing</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steve Woods, Senior Vice President, State Operations</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Janet Connor, Vice President, Human Resources</li>

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53 Century Blvd, Suite 250

Nashville, TN 37214

Toll-Free: (800) 634-2669

Direct: (615) 872-5800

Web Form: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nfib.com/contact-us" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://www.nfib.com/contact-us</a>

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nfib.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">http://www.nfib.com/</a>

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<h3 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Related SourceWatch Articles</h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Right_Wing_Ties" title="NFIB's Right Wing Ties" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB's Right Wing Ties</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm" title="NFIB's Legal Arm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB's Legal Arm</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB_Opposition_to_Earned_Sick_Days" title="NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NFIB Opposition to Earned Sick Days</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donors_Trust" title="Donors Trust" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Donors Trust</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11810/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NFIB's "I Built My Business" Astroturf Bus Tour Gets Rolling in Wisconsin</a>, Harriet Rowan, October 23, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11804/nfib-conference-call-romney-urges-employers-tell-employees-how-vote-just-kochs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">On NFIB Conference Call, Romney Urges Employers to Tell Employees How to Vote, Just Like the Kochs</a>, Brendan Fischer, October 18, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://prwatch.org/node/11626/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NPR, NBC Use One Guy for Small Biz Opposition to ACA and Fail to Disclose his NFIB Ties</a>, Emily Osborne, July 6, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11614/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Who is Bankrolling the Fight Against "Obamacare?"</a>, Brendan Fischer, June 27, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/11/11122/insurers-are-recycling-front-group-cheat-us-out-benefits" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Insurers are Recycling a Front Group to Cheat Us Out of Benefits</a>, Wendell Potter, November 10, 2011.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">CNN, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/21/politics/small-business-big-donor/index.html?iref=allsearch" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Koch Bros.-backed group gave millions to small business lobby</a>, Chris Frates, November 21, 2013.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Businessweek, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-14/a-small-business-group-message-laundering-for-the-insurance-industry" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">How the Insurance Industry Funded Small Business's Anti-Obamacare Message</a>, John Tozzi, May 14, 2013.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Associated Press, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Business-making-an-anti-regulation-pitch-to-voters-3873013.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Business Making an Anti-Regulation Pitch to Voters</a>, Larry Margasak, September 18, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Huffington Post, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/small-businesses_b_1707706.html?view=screen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Who Really Represents the Interests of Small Biz?</a>, Jared Bernstein, July 26, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mother Jones, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/national-federation-independent-businesses" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Meet the Front Group Leading the Fight Against Taxing the Rich</a>, Josh Harkinson, July 23, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Hill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/238933-secrecy-is-not-a-small-business-value-transparency-is" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Secrecy is Not a Small Business Value. Transparency Is</a>, David Borris, July 19, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Hill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/235665-big-money-behind-misinformation-on-healthcare-law" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Big money behind misinformation on healthcare law</a>, Frank Knapp, Jr., June 29, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Huffington Post, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/nfib-supreme-court-obamacare-donors_n_1632554.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NFIB, Plaintiff In Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Obamacare, Refuses To Disclose Donors</a>, Greg Rosalsky, June 27, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Journal, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/the-secret-money-behind-the-he.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The Secret Money Behind the Health Care Challenge</a>, Elahe Izadi, June 26, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Salon.com, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/2012/06/25/nfib_the_group_trying_to_kill_obamacare/singleton/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The Group Trying to Kill Obamacare</a>, Alex Seitz-Wald, June 25, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Inc., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inc.com/john-mcdermott/small-business-group-under-fire-on-funding.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Small Business Group Under Fire on Funding</a>, John McDermott, June 25, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Washington Post, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clash-over-financial-disclosure-escalates-spilling-into-presidential-race/2012/06/23/gJQAu3NEyV_story.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Clash Over Financial Disclosure Escalates, Spilling into Presidential Race</a>, Dan Eggen, June 23, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Washington Post, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/small-business-groups-political-motives-come-under-question-in-battle-against-health-care-law/2012/06/14/gJQAMuurbV_story.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Small Business Group’s Political Motives Come Under Question in Battle Against Health Care Law</a>, J.D. Harrison, June 14, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Wall Street Journal, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303822204577466370544773122.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Lawmakers Question Small-Business Group's Funding</a>, Angus Loten, June 14, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Hill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/232521-house-liberals-want-plaintiff-in-healthcare-reform-suit-to-reveal-donors" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">House Liberals Want Group that Filed Suit Against Healthcare Law to Reveal Donors</a>. Mike Lillis, June 13, 2012.</li>

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legal arm:

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business" title="National Federation of Independent Business" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Federation of Independent Business</a> (NFIB) is a lobbying group that calls itself "the voice of small business."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> However, the group has been shown to lobby on issues that favor large corporate interests and run counter to the interests of small businesses.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-opinion-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a> NFIB is best known for its legal attack on the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") and for spearheading the opposition to President Clinton's health care reform package in 1993.

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NFIB has a legal arm called the NFIB Small Business Legal Center (SBLC). The SBLC spearheads the NFIB's legal assault on the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). It is one of its three 501(c)(3) foundation arms.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> Formed in January 1994 as the NFIB Legal Foundation, the litigation arm took years to get off the ground, possibly because of funding and turf issues. (The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a well-funded litigation arm, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce#Legal_reform" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Institute for Legal Reform</a>, which had a budget of $42.5 million in 2010; and the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Washington_Legal_Foundation" title="Washington Legal Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington Legal Foundation</a>, with a 2009 budget of $2.7 million, has played a leading role in antiregulatory strategic litigation for years).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a>

When it finally was launched in 2000 with an initial budget of $300,000, the NFIB Legal Foundation was able to attract two legal heavy-hitters to its advisory board: former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wendy_Lee_Gramm" title="Wendy Lee Gramm" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wendy Lee Gramm</a> (who founded the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, funded by the Koch brothers); and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/C._Boyden_Gray" title="C. Boyden Gray" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">C. Boyden Gray</a>, the former White House Counselor for the George H.W. Bush administration and an important architect of the right wing's principal legal networking organization, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Federalist Society</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a> C. Boyden Gray remains on the board of directors of the Federalist Society.

NFIB Legal Foundation's first executive director was Thomas M. Sullivan, who had been NFIB's regulatory counsel since 1998. Three years later Sullivan was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as chief counsel for advocacy at the Small Business Administration.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a> After assuming his new post, he gave an NFIB gathering this description of the nations capital: "[I]n Washington, it's all about power brokers, lobbyists and trade associations and members of Congress."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business" title="National Federation of Independent Business" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Click here for the SourceWatch main page on the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)</a>.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#NFIB_Battles_Legal_Protections_for_Workers.2C_Women.2C_and_the_Environment" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 NFIB Battles Legal Protections for Workers, Women, and the Environment</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#Leadership" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Leadership</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#Funding" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Funding</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#The_Advisory_Board" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 The Advisory Board</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#Essential_Resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 Essential Resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#Related_SourceWatch_Articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.1 Related SourceWatch Articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#PRWatch_Articles_on_NFIB" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.2 PRWatch Articles on NFIB</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.4 References</a></li>

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The first president of the NFIB Legal Foundation, Jack Faris, laid out the group's key initial targets -- not concerns about anti-trust issues and big business concentration, NFIB's original focus, but "inequities in the Americans with Disabilities Act regulations, Environmental Protection Agency clean air rules, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a> Its first case in 2000 was an effort to block a Clean Water Act rule issued by the Army Corps of Engineers.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a>

Later in 2000 the NFIB Legal Foundation joined a lawsuit challenging a regulation issued by OSHA designed to reduce repetitive-motion stress injuries.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> The case became moot in 2001 when Congress passed legislation repealing the OSHA ergonomics rule. The NFIB Legal Foundation claimed credit for having forced the repeal.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sexual Harassment: In 2006, the NFIB Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court challenging a federal appeals court's ruling on what constitutes actionable retaliation in a sexual harassment case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The brief claimed that the court's ruling upholding the retaliation claim jeopardized legitimate employer practices.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> NFIB Legal Foundation filed the amicus brief jointly with Proskauer Rose.</li><li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lily Ledbetter: The following year the NFIB Legal Foundation applauded the Supreme Court's decision denying Lily Ledbetter the right to sue Goodyear for pay discrimination because her case was not filed within 180 days after the first discriminatory paycheck, even though she had no way of knowing then that she was paid less than her male counterparts.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a></li></ul>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Americans with Disabilities Act: In 2007 the NFIB Legal Foundation's senior executive counsel, Elizabeth Gaudio denounced what she called "predatory plaintiffs using the [Americans with Disabilities Act] to extort small businesses in 'drive-by' lawsuits."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a> Gaudio and NFIB Legal Foundation executive director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#Leadership" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Karen Harned</a> also wrote an article for the journal of the Federalist Society's practice group offering court-based strategies for restricting litigation under the ADA.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Wal-Mart Law: Gaudio also praised a federal court's overturning of Maryland's so-called Wal-Mart Law, which sought to make large employers in the state pay a fair share of their low-wage workers' state-funded medical costs.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Right to Work: That year the NFIB Legal Foundation also submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in a major Washington state case filed by the National Right to Work Foundation challenging the ability of unions to use non-member dues for political purposes without first obtaining their consent. The amicus brief was prepared for NFIBLF by James Bopp, Jr., who two months later filed a landmark case for Citizens United that overturned a century of precedent in election finance law.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a></li>

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Karen Harned</div>

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In 2007, the NFIB Legal Foundation changed its name to the NFIB Small Business Legal Center (SBLC). Its executive director since April 2002 has been Karen R. Harned, who previously was an attorney for Olsson Frank Weeda, where she lobbied on food and drug issues. Senior executive counsel is Beth Milito, a former Veterans Administration attorney. In 2009 Milito claimed that legislation overturning the Lily Ledbetter Supreme Court decision would place "more burdens on employers in terms of in-house costs, keeping more records and outside legal fees. It's going to be costly for businesses."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a>

Executive Director Harned also serves as advisor on small business issues to the Litigation Practice Group of the Federalist Society. The practice group's tort and liabilities subcommittee's co-chair, Mark A. Behrens of Shook, Hardy and Bacon, sits on the advisory board of NFIB Small Business Legal Center. The group's immediate past chair is Marsha Rabiteau, associate general counsel for legal reform at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Koch Industries</a>, Inc.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[20]</a>

Charles G. Koch</div>

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From 2003-2004, NFIB's Small Business Legal Center received $88,000 in funding from the Koch-controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[21]</a> SBLC also received $100,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the leading foundation funder of the right-wing think tank infrastructure. The donation came in the run-up to the fall 2010 congressional elections and just as SBLC's healthcare litigation was ramping up.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[22]</a>

The budget for SBLC has grown from $200,000 in 2000<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[23]</a> to over $2.2 million in 2010.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-2010_990-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[24]</a> It more than doubled between 2009, when it was $967,803,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-2009_990-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[25]</a> and 2010, when it surged to $2,202,992.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-2010_990-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[24]</a> A major increase in the group's expenditures consisted of legal fees of $1,073,242 paid to Baker Hostetler in 2010;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[26]</a> that firm represented NFIB and 26 states in their federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

On its 2010 tax return, SBLC reported receiving $282,548 from a related organization (presumably NFIB Inc.) and $1,875,892 in contributions, gifts and grants.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[27]</a> The previous year's grants total was $559,573.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-2009_990-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[25]</a> The additional amount in 2010 more than covers SBLC's legal fees that year to Baker Hostetler. It is not clear who provided the extra funding to support the group's legal expenses in its challenge to the healthcare law up through the Appeals court and Supreme Court, and to pay for the legal work being done by Jones Day attorneys Michael A. Carvin and Gregory Katsas as they prepared for and argued the case before the Supreme Court in March 2012.

President Dan Danner told the Wall Street Journal that the healthcare litigation cost NFIB $2.9 million in 2010 alone, with about $1.6 million coming from "'contributed services,' referring to an agreement with an outside law firm to handle the case."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[28]</a>

As a 501(c)(3), SBLC is not required to disclose the source of its funding. The group has so far refused to disclose the source(s) of the additional funding for the healthcare litigation.

Questions have also arisen about the propriety of SBLC's paying the lion's share for litigation involving 26 states. "My concern is if it's a lawsuit on behalf of the people of Florida, then I would believe it should be the people of Florida footing the bill," state Rep. Mark Pafford, D-West Palm Beach, told the Palm Beach Post. "When you have an outside party paying, then every aspect of the AG's office might be up for sale. This type of thing raises all kind of red flags."

"I'm not sure most voters understand that a lawsuit by their states is being funded by an ideological organization with an issue ax to grind," Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, told the newspaper. "In this case there appears to a serious perversion of the process."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[29]</a>

SBLC has a 14-member advisory board<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[30]</a> consisting of some of the nation's top corporate-side experts in workplace litigation and opponents of regulation. NFIB's chief lobbyist Susan Eckerly and Nelson Mullins attorney <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Right_Wing_Ties" title="NFIB's Right Wing Ties" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Thomas Sullivan</a> are also on the advisory board. Selected members include:

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Melissa A. Bailey: Bailey is the managing shareholder of the DC office of Ogletree Deakins, one of the most prominent anti-union law firms in the country. She boasts of her extensive success in turning back OSHA lawsuits for corporate clients.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[31]</a>

Her colleague, Harold Coxson, also based in DC, chairs Ogletree's government relations practice and is executive director of the Tuesday Group, an "informal organization" of 35 national trade associations "involved in workplace issues."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a> He has lobbied on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce on the Employee Free Choice Act and on NLRB confirmations.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[33]</a>

Ogletree advertises its ability to help companies in "maintaining union free status," and boasts of its "extensive experience representing management in union representation campaigns." Most of its clients "go year after year without experiencing a union election." Ogletree says that its services extend "from union card signing activity and traditional union campaigns involving NLRB elections, to campaigns involving various levels of neutrality, to multistate and even global attacks." Their experience, they say, "has familiarized us with the broad spectrum of union organizing tactics."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-34" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[34]</a>

Maurice Baskin: Baskin is the chair of Venable's Labor and Employment Law Practice Group. He spearheaded a key 2002 Supreme Court case, BE&K v. NLRB, that reversed an NLRB ruling that a company had interfered with a union's organizing drive. Baskin has served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's labor relations committee, and represented the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) in employment-related matters.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-35" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[35]</a>

Mark A. Behrens: As noted above, Behrens, of Shook, Hardy and Bacon, co-chairs the tort and liabilities subcommittee of the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group, whose immediate past chair is Marsha Rabiteau, associate general counsel for legal reform at Koch Industries, Inc. Behrens is an advisor to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Civil_Justice_Task_Force" title="Civil Justice Task Force" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Civil Justice Task Force</a>, and serves on the Washington Legal Foundation's Legal Policy Advisory Board.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-36" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[36]</a> Behrens authored an amicus brief on behalf of NFIB and other organizations in the Paz v. Brush Engineered Materials case, challenging medical monitoring for toxic substances in the workplace.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-37" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[37]</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Susan_E._Dudley" title="Susan E. Dudley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Susan E. Dudley</a>: A former head of the Regulatory Studies Program at George Mason University's Koch-funded <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercatus_Center" title="Mercatus Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mercatus Center</a>, Dudley now directs the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Before going to GWU, she was appointed head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs by President George W. Bush. According to the Los Angeles Times, Dudley was one of three people previously blocked by Congress from holding environment-related positions "because of their pro-industry views."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[38]</a>

Leonard Leo: Leo is head of the lawyers division and executive vice president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federalist_Society_for_Law_and_Public_Policy_Studies" title="Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Federalist Society</a>, the right wing's principal legal networking organization. He played a key role in the George W. Bush administration in vetting nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tammy McCutchen: McCutchen, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, was administrator of the wage and hour division at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she radically expanded the number of occupations and positions that were exempt from wage and hour rules and weakened overtime pay rules. McCutchen is the former chair and now a special adviser to the Federalist Society's Labor & Employment Practice Group (now chaired by Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, member of the executive committee and chair of the labor employment group at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-39" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[39]</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edwin_Meese_III" title="Edwin Meese III" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Edwin Meese III</a>: Meese, the former attorney general under President Reagan, has spent the past two decades as chair of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Heritage Foundation</a>. The Heritage Foundation, which lined up with NFIB to fight the Clinton healthcare plan in the 1990's and is again fighting the Affordable Care Act,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[40]</a> has waged a sustained battle against guaranteed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NFIB_Opposition_to_Paid_Sick_Days&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="NFIB Opposition to Paid Sick Days (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">paid sick days</a>, federal parental leave, federal employee pay levels and labor organizing rights.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[41]</a> Heritage's director of editorial services, James Weidman, is a former deputy director of regional media communications for NFIB.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[42]</a>

Howard M. Radzely: Radzely was Deputy Secretary of Labor from December 2007 to February 2009, and before that solicitor in the Labor Department, where he was supervised by Eugene Scalia. He is now at Morgan Lewis. The Government Accountability Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) opposed his nomination to be labor solicitor, citing his "hostility to whistleblowers" and "abdication of responsibility for labor law violations against state employees."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_note-43" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[43]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business" title="National Federation of Independent Business" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Federation of Independent Business</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11804/nfib-conference-call-romney-urges-employers-tell-employees-how-vote-just-kochs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">On NFIB Conference Call, Romney Urges Employers to Tell Employees How to Vote, Just Like the Kochs</a>, Brendan Fischer, October 18, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11614/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Who is Bankrolling the Fight Against "Obamacare?"</a>, Brendan Fischer, June 27, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">PRWatch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/11/11122/insurers-are-recycling-front-group-cheat-us-out-benefits" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Insurers are Recycling a Front Group to Cheat Us Out of Benefits</a>, Wendell Potter, November 10, 2011.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Hill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/235665-big-money-behind-misinformation-on-healthcare-law" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Big money behind misinformation on healthcare law</a>, Frank Knapp, Jr., June 29, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Huffington Post, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/nfib-supreme-court-obamacare-donors_n_1632554.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NFIB, Plaintiff In Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Obamacare, Refuses To Disclose Donors</a>, Greg Rosalsky, June 27, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Washington Post, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/small-business-groups-political-motives-come-under-question-in-battle-against-health-care-law/2012/06/14/gJQAMuurbV_story.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Small Business Group’s Political Motives Come Under Question in Battle Against Health Care Law</a>, J.D. Harrison, June 14, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Hill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/232521-house-liberals-want-plaintiff-in-healthcare-reform-suit-to-reveal-donors" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">House Liberals Want Group that Filed Suit Against Healthcare Law to Reveal Donors</a>. Mike Lillis, June 13, 2012.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nfib.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NFIB</a>, organizational website, accessed September 20, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64725-2005Feb4.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">A Quiet Revolution in Business Lobbying</a>, The Washington Post, February 5, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-opinion-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-opinion_3-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance, and Small Business Majority, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mainstreetalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/report-small-business-regulations-economy-Feb-1-2012.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Opinion Survey: Small Business Owners’ Opinions on Regulations and Job Creation</a>, February 1, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Form 990 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/0/0c/NFIB_Small_Business_Legal_Center_990_2010_part_1.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Part 1</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/9/98/NFIB_Small_Business_Legal_Center_990_2010_part_2.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Part 2</a>), organizational IRS filing, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/522/522109035/522109035_201012_990O.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2010 IRS Form 990</a>, p. 1; Washington Legal Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/521/521071570/521071570_200912_990.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2009 IRS Form 990</a>, p. 1.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Louis Jacobson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2000/03/small-business-group-to-bring-lawsuits-against-agencies/2033/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Small Business Group to Bring Lawsuits Against Agencies</a>," Government Executive, March 17, 2000.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Sullivan's law firm still has NFIB as a client and he is on the NFIB Small Business Legal Center's advisory board. He also recently <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=74f0f237-3cdd-4a22-8b6e-f47c0fc513b5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">registered as a lobbyist for his law firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.</a> Sullivan is now of counsel at Nelson Mullins and heads the Small Business Coalition for Regulatory Relief.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> David Milstead, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-102787834.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">SBA Official Urges Contacts</a>," Rocky Mountain News, June 4, 2003, available from Highbeam.com via subscription, accessed September 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Jack Faris, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://w3.nexis.com/new/docview/getDocForCuiReq?lni=408Y-R2G0-00HS-010V&csi=170834&oc=00240&perma=true" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Small Business Gets A Lawyer</a>," Treasure Coast Business Journal, May 1, 2000, accessible by subscription via Nexis.com, accessed September 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/c/cc/Senator_Bond_Applauds_NFIB_Legal_Foundation%27.PDF" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Senator Bond Applauds NFIB Legal Foundation's First Lawsuit</a>," U.S. Newswire, June 29, 2000.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Jonathan Riskind, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-67940357.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Brown to Fight Mexican Truck Ruling</a>," Crain's Cleveland Business, December 11, 2000, accessible by subscription via Highbeam.com, accessed September 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nfib.com/legal-center/case-index/case-index-item/cmsid/18631" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NFIB v. OSHA-NFIB Forces Repeal of Costly Ergonomics Rule</a>," organizational website, accessed September 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/b/b0/Proskauer_Rose_Files_Amicus_Brief_in_Major_E.PDF" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Proskauer Rose Files Amicus Brief in Major Employment Discrimination Case Now before the U.S. Supreme Court</a>," Business Wire, February 14, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Miles Moore, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-164583421.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">High Court Favors Goodyear in Pay Discrimination Suit</a>," Tire Business, June 4, 2007, accessible by subscription via Highbeam.com, accessed September 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Elizabeth Gaudio, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.magic-city-news.com/NFIB_27/ADA_Tax_Breaks_Help_Small_Businesses_Stay_Accessible_printer8066.shtml" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">ADA Tax Breaks Help Small Businesses Stay Accessible</a>," Magic City Morning Star, May 24, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Karen R. Harned and Elizabeth A. Gaudio, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fed-soc.org/doclib/20080313_CivRightHarned.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The ADA Opening Doors for the Plaintiff's Bar: How Ambiguities in Title III Inhibit Access, Increase Litigation, and Hurt Business</a>," Engage (Federalist Society), Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nfib.com/advocacy/item/cmsid/32196" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Victory for Small Business: Court Rejects Maryland 'Wal-Mart' Law</a>," organizational website, accessed September 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.clcblog.org/assets/attachments/Amicus_Merits_Brief_NFIDLF__Bopp.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">NFIBLF's amicus brief</a> in Davenport v. Washington Education Association, November 8, 2006. The American Legislative Exchange Council <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.appellate.net/briefs/Davenport_Amicus_brief.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">also submitted an amicus brief in the case</a>. On Bopp see Stephanie Mencimer, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/james-bopp-citizens-united" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The Man Behind Citizens United Is Just Getting Started: Meet The Lawyer Who Could Turn Our Elections Upside Down</a>," Mother Jones, May/June 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Eliot Caroom, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2009/02/ledbetter.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Ledbetter Law Will Increase Suits</a>," Inc. magazine, February 23, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Federalist Society, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/page/litigation-practice-group-executive-committee-contact-information" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Litigation Practice Group Executive Committee,"</a> Accessed March 19, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Claude R. Lambe Foundation, IRS Forms 990 for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2003/480/935/2003-480935563-1-F.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2003</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2003/480/935/2003-480935563-1-F.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2004</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/396/396037928/396037928_201012_990PF.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">IRS Form 990, 2010</a>, pp. 72-73.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2000/621/570/2000-621570449-1-9.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Form 990</a>, organizational IRS filing, 2000</li>

<li id="cite_note-2010_990-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-2010_990_24-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:24.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-2010_990_24-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">24.1</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/0/0c/NFIB_Small_Business_Legal_Center_990_2010_part_1.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Form 990, Part 1</a>, organizational IRS filing, 2010, p 1</li>

<li id="cite_note-2009_990-25" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-2009_990_25-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:25.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-2009_990_25-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">25.1</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/9/95/NFIB_Small_Business_Legal_Center_990_2009.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Form 990</a>, organizational IRS filing, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-26" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/9/98/NFIB_Small_Business_Legal_Center_990_2010_part_2.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2010 IRS Form 990, part 2</a>, p. 32.</li>

<li id="cite_note-27" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/0/0c/NFIB_Small_Business_Legal_Center_990_2010_part_1.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Form 990, Part 1</a>, organizational IRS filing, 2010, p. 9.</li>

<li id="cite_note-28" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Sarah E. Needleman and Angus Loten, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303404704577306050360176744.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"A Small-Business Lobby's Million-Dollar Legal Assault,"</a> Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-29" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Charles Elmore, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/lobbying-group-picks-up-costs-of-floridas-health-c/nLqFx/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Lobbying Group Picks Up Costs Of Florida's Health-Care Legal Challenge,"</a> Palm Beach Post, February 19, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-30" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nfib.com/legal-center/about-the-legal-center/small-business-advisory-board" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Small Business Advisory Board,"</a> accessed March 8, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-31" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Ogletree Deakins, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/attorneys/melissa-a-bailey" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Attorney Bio-Melissa A. Bailey,"</a> accessed March 13, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-32" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Ogletree Deakins, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/attorneys/harold-p-coxson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Attorney Bio--Harold P. Coxson, Jr.,"</a> accessed March 13, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-33" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Congressional Lobbying Report, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=300306424" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Ogletree Government Affairs, Inc., 2nd Quarter, 2010.</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-34" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-34" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Ogletree Deakins, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ogletreedeakins.com/practice-areas/traditional-labor-relations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group,"</a> brochure, accessed March 13, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-35" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-35" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> NFIB Small Business Legal Center, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nfib.com/legal-center/about-the-legal-center/small-business-advisory-board" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Small Business Advisory Board,"</a> accessed March 8, 2012; Venable, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.venable.com/maurice-baskin/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Maurice Baskin."</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-36" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-36" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Federalist Society, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/page/litigation-practice-group-executive-committee-contact-information" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Litigation Practice Group Executive Committee,"</a> Accessed March 19, 2012; Shook, Hardy and Bacon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shb.com/attorney_detail.aspx?id=13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Mark A. Behrens,"</a> accessed March 13, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-37" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-37" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Behrens discussed the case in an article in a Federalist Society publication: Mark A. Behrens, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fed-soc.org/doclib/20080314_LitBehrens.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Fifth Consecutive State High Court Rejects Medical Monitoring</a>," Engage, Volume 8, Issue 1 (2007).</li>

<li id="cite_note-38" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Judy Pasternak, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/01/nation/na-enviro1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Bush Backs Shunned Nominees: His Three Choices for Jobs Dealing with the Environment Were Previously Blocked as Pro-Industry,"</a> Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2007; see also Public Citizen and OMB Watch's extensive report, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/dudleyreport.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Cost Is Too High: How Susan Dudley Threatens Public Protections."</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-39" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-39" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Federalist Society, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/page/labor-employment-practice-group-executive-committee-contact-information" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Labor & Employment Practice Group Executive Committee,"</a> accessed March 19, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-40" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Heritage is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/heritagefoundation/app_172930526142342" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAdUlEQVQYV2P4//8/Awxv3LThf0dXKxyD+DA5DEUg+tWrV2AaWTFcIboJyJrhCtGtRMcgebhpL2/4/v//Lvn//x+7IRjIfn8v+P/t055gxZgKPzaC8Y/nMYQVLpnM8f/zo3AqKfzyOOL/h/sh/59c9sBUSIyvAeRdJWjk4E//AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">running a Facebook petition drive against the healthcare law</a>, and hosted NFIB Legal Center executive director Karen Harned for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/24/scribecast-nfibs-karen-harned-on-obamacare-at-the-supreme-court/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">an interview in its "Scribecast" podcast series</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-41" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> See, e.g., James Sherk, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/01/mandatory-paid-sick-leave-the-heritage-foundation-2010-labor-boot-camp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Mandatory Paid Sick Leave: The Heritage Foundation 2010 Labor Boot Camp,"</a> January 14, 2010; James Sherk, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/05/congress-should-consider-alternatives-to-mandatory-paid-sick-leave" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Congress Should Consider Alternatives to Mandatory Paid Sick Leave,"</a> May 15, 2007; and James Sherk, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.heritage.org/2008/06/18/female-workers-will-pay-price-for-federal-parental-leave-act/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Female Workers Will Pay Price for Federal Parental Leave Act,"</a> June 18, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-42" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Heritage Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/w/james-weidman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"James Weidman: Director, Editorial Services,"</a> accessed March 19, 2012.</li>

<li id="cite_note-43" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB%27s_Legal_Arm#cite_ref-43" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peer.org/assets/docs/dol/Radzely_Opposition_Letter.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Joint Opposition Letter by the Government Accountability Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility,"</a> July 25, 2003.</li>

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