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# Dave Camp Cashes in on Super Committee Assignment

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Aug 10, 2011 6:13 PM UTC

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Aug 10, 2011 6:13 PM UTC

Tax reform, you will soon hear, can be good for everybody. But few will benefit more than those who write the legislation. On the same day that House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., got picked to join the 12-member Congressional super-committee that is charged with deciding the country’s spending and taxation fate, his political action committee sent out this invite:

HBO said it would renew the popular fantasy drama for a fifth and sixth season, after the fourth season premiere drew in the show’s biggest audience thus far of 6.6 million viewers HBO announced that its fan favorite Game of Thrones has been renewed for fifth and sixth seasons Tuesday. Considering the fantasy drama's extreme popularity, this decision is a no-brainer for studio execs. Sunday's premiere not only knocked out HBO Go, but it drew in the show's biggest audience thus far of 6.6 million viewers. That makes it the most watched show on HBO since The Sopranos 2007 finale. “Game Of Thrones is a phenomenon like no other,” HBO programming president Michael Lombardo said in a statement. "\[Creators\] David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with their talented collaborators, continue to surpass themselves, and we look forward to more of their dazzling storytelling." Now we only have to hope that the television series doesn't catch up with creator George R. R. Martin's books. He's at five and the series has currently covered just over two and a half volumes. Get writing, George!

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Just think, for $2,500, you too can have “fun” as Camp’s PAC refills your wine glass over chats about mortgage interest deductions, profit repatriation and S-Corporation pass through rates.

We need no longer guess whether Pfizer will have a chance to play a role in the upcoming negotiations, thanks to the Pfizer PAC host duties.

As for the other members of the host committee: Susan Hirschmann is a lobbyist for Williams and Jensen, whose clients also include Pfizer, along with just about everyone else: PhRma, Visa, Brooks Brothers, American Bankers Association, Sunoco, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AARP, General Electric, etc. She is a former chief of staff to former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay. Sam Lancaster, a former aide to Speaker Denny Hastert, now works for Comcast. Royal Roth works for UPS. Jim Rowland lobbies, appropriately enough, for the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America. Sally Vastola is the former chief of staff for former Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y. She now lobbies at Nixon Peabody, where Reynolds works as a “senior strategic policy advisor.” Consider this blog post an advertisement for their services.

And let us all raise a toast to Italy, a wonderful country, where politics, if you can believe it, is in an [even more tawdry](http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043352,00.html) state of affairs.

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