Copy-paste laws: How corporations are influencing your laws
State legislatures across the U.S. are adopting and signing into law bills that were written by corporations and special-interest group on a massive scale.
The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast · The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com
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Show Notes
Think your publicly elected leaders write the bills they sign into law? Not always. In fact, they often don't.
That's the conclusion of a two-year-long investigation by The Arizona Republic, USA TODAY and plus the Center for Public Integrity, which found that 10,000 bills across 50 state legislatures were in large part copied from "model" bills written by corporations and special-interest groups.
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