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> # On September 20, 2001, the New York Times reported that a single senator had blocked legislation that would have helped U.S. investigators track Osama bin Laden's financial network before 9/11. It was Phil Gramm, who still defended these tax havens after 9/11, whose bank was still lobbying Congress on behalf of tax havens as recently as last year.

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## More from John McCain

1. > We have now learned that the other \[the one not yet purged for lobbying ties\] general co-chair, Phil Gramm, was working as a lobbyist for a foreign bank here i…

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2. > It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time \[62\] \[63\], as he did in the Senate last year.

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3. > ... The four dozen lobbyists still in his campaign might be a bit of glaring hypocrisy from a man who purports to be a maverick.... Today, federal disclosure f…

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