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Soros Group Ramps Up Lobbying Efforts in 2017
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | Aug 14, 2017 | Joe Schoffstall

Posted on 08/16/2017 10:56:00 AM PDT by Oatka

Soros pushed resources to counter laws described as direct attack on the liberal billionaire.

Liberal billionaire George Soros's advocacy arm is ramping up its lobbying efforts this year, disclosure forms show.

The deep-pocketed Democratic financier increased lobbying expenditures on a range of foreign issues, including efforts to oppose laws described as a direct attack on his funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in his native country of Hungary.

The Open Society Policy Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit that focuses on advocacy efforts and is a separate entity from the Soros grant making Open Society Foundations, has spent nearly as much on lobbying in the first half of 2017 as the group did in the entirety of 2016.

The Open Society Policy Center reported spending $4.6 million in the first and second quarters, which runs from Jan. 1 to June 30, according its disclosure forms filed to the House of Representatives and the Senate. The group has three in-house lobbyists who lobby the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State.

Soros drastically extended the policy scope of his lobbying efforts as the year progressed, including to issues that have been seen as a direct strike against the Hungarian-born billionaire.

From January to March, Soros's group lobbied on three issues. From April to June, the group lobbied 17 different issues, including the Bill on Foreign Funded Organizations in Hungary (LexNGo), Hungary's crack down on foreign-funded organizations in the country.

Hungary's parliament approved the law that targets foreign-funded organizations in June, which they have said "can threaten the country's political and economic interests and interfere with the functioning of its institutions," according to text of the law.

Although the law does not mention Soros by name, politicians in Hungary previously said they wanted to "sweep out" organizations tied to Soros.

Soros's Open Society Foundations has given money to a number of prominent NGOs in Hungary. The group has said that the country's bill "seeks to suppress democratic voices in Hungary."

The lobbyists also worked on issues such as the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017 and the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018, among others.

Soros's lobbying efforts have quietly skyrocketed in recent years.

The policy center reported spending $19,120,000 on lobbying for policy and legislative efforts with Congress and government agencies between 2002 and 2012, which averages out to $1.9 million per year.

The amount Soros spent on lobbying shot up to $11 million in 2013, a drastic increase from the $3.4 million the group had spent in 2012. The uptick could be attributed to the group's push for "comprehensive immigration reform" during this time.

The center upped its lobbying expenditures to $12.4 million in 2012. In 2015, the group spent $8.5 million. The amount spent on special interests dipped to $5.6 million in 2016.

Now the group's lobbying expenditures are trending upwards again. The center is on pace to spend $9.2 million this year.

"OSPC engages on a range of issues in Congress, which have been fairly consistent over time," a spokesman for the policy center previously told the Washington Free Beacon in an email statement. "The level of spending on those issues tends to rise and fall depending on their state of play in Congress."

The amount the group has spent over the last four and a half years on its lobbying efforts ($41.6 million) is more than double what they had spent during the ten-year period from 2002 to 2012 ($19.1 million).

The Open Society Policy Center did not respond to inquiries on its lobbying activities this year.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billionaires; corruption; fundingtheleft; lobbying; opensociety; politics; soros; sorosoutofcontrol
We have the finest politicians money can buy.

There ought to be an arrest warrant outstanding for sedition on this evil man - or at least go the route of Hungary on this kind of inteference.

1 posted on 08/16/2017 10:56:00 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Oatka

At this point I think either Trump finally does something about Soros or Soros will destroy him.


2 posted on 08/16/2017 11:00:54 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oatka

Some country’s intelligence service needs to deal with Soros as well as his sons. They are an imminent threat to to many Western societies.


3 posted on 08/16/2017 11:07:33 AM PDT by Truth29
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George Soros and his sons, all need to be “terminated with extreme prejudice.”


4 posted on 08/16/2017 11:07:44 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: Oatka

With all the hate for democracy that this freedom-hating reprobate has PURCHASED worldwide, you would think he would be keeping a very low profile driven by survival instincts.


5 posted on 08/16/2017 11:12:22 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Oatka

We’re ALL AMERICANS!
REALLY??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8cRBUo0bE


6 posted on 08/16/2017 11:13:15 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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Whoever kills George Soros will be regarded as a HERO in many countries throughout the world.

No man in modern history has stealthily caused so much damage and death WHILE HIDING LIKE A COWARD BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

GEORGE SOROS PAYS OTHERS TO DO HIS EVIL DIRTY WORK, THE F'ING COWARD THAT HE IS.

GEORGE SOROS IS A COWARD. SHOW YOUR FACE YOU EFFING COWARD SOROS.

7 posted on 08/16/2017 11:15:55 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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Which name hasn’t Trump had the guts yet to name?

Soros.

I am longing for that day.


8 posted on 08/16/2017 11:16:21 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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If the shoe was on the other political foot, Soros would have been taken out by the IRS, FBI, DOJ and the Demonrat machine decades ago.

Meanwhile, we just let these criminals carry on.

Good grief....


9 posted on 08/16/2017 11:17:11 AM PDT by Professional
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To: JME_FAN

Killing George Soros wouldn’t stop his chaos, but FREEZING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS MIGHT.


10 posted on 08/16/2017 11:17:22 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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DJT finally Drains the SorozNazi swamp...or it will destroy DJT’s presidency.... its really this simple


11 posted on 08/16/2017 11:17:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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12 posted on 08/16/2017 11:18:56 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
From the wayback machine:


13 posted on 08/16/2017 11:20:44 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: Truth29

Mossad needs some field exercises........................


14 posted on 08/16/2017 11:31:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: gibsonguy

This is REAL colluding to overthrow one party who is against the other. George Soros’s political repression is a crime against the nation. Muller of course is on Soro’s side. America is becoming a lawless Marxist nation....Socialism was thrown out the window with the end of the Obama administration....however, the damage was done that has opened the door to Communism.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 11:39:06 AM PDT by yoe
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If President Trump doesn’t fight the Soros/Obama/Clinton dragon,he will be finished. I am afraid to say political party means nothing in DC. Our President is all alone. The left and #NeverTrump scum are building the impeachment pyre.


16 posted on 08/16/2017 11:46:37 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Oatka

Maybe some CIA spooks can pay a couple of Putin’s ex-KGB cohorts to do a snatch-and-grab on the f***ing pig-then drop his remains off somewhere in the remote Siberian tundra...


17 posted on 08/16/2017 11:49:07 AM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Oatka

Soros bump for later.....


18 posted on 08/16/2017 11:55:43 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: Oatka

Audit all those tax returns while posting them online

Let’s see the $$$ and who “donates” Who’s connected to who


19 posted on 08/16/2017 12:05:07 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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I just read an article that Soros is working to turn Ireland into a pro-abortion country.

Is there anything this guy is not working on to destroy the world?

20 posted on 08/16/2017 12:09:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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