Romney: Human Rights Before Trade

Obama camp prefers 'clean' bill stripped of human rights language
Mitt Romney / AP

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said that he would only back a Russian trade bill if it came with new guarantees of human rights and blasted President Obama for refusing to do the same.

The One Percent Gets Its Turn

Green Energy Millionaire and Billionaire Set to Take the Stage
Steyer, Westly

CHARLOTTE — Democratic National Convention (DNC) attendees on Wednesday will hear from two speakers who Republicans and conservatives say epitomize the cronyism and hypocrisy that have plagued the Obama administration over the past several years.

Goldman’s Magnitsky ‘Monitors’

Wall Street Giant Disputes Report it Lobbied Against Human Rights Legislation
Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein / AP

The news that Wall Street megabank Goldman Sachs may have tried to torpedo a human rights bill pertaining to Russia provoked a reaction from the financial giant, which maintains it never paid a prominent D.C. lobbying firm $100,000 to rally opposition to the legislation.

BANK OF PUTIN

Goldman Sachs lobbying against human rights legislation
AP

Goldman Sachs bank appears to have paid a prominent D.C. lobbying firm $100,000 to torpedo a human rights bill that would deny U.S. visas to, and freeze the assets of, Russian citizens involved in human rights abuses, according to lobbying disclosure forms.