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As the nation’s largest senior-advocacy organization, the AARP, is hauled up to the GOP-controlled Ways and Means committee for their role in supporting the Affordable Care Act, we’re left wondering why some other groups â€" say, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce â€" aren’t being investigated for their own roles. 

It was the Chamber, of course, that received a massive $86 million check from big insurance companies to kill reform in the name of protecting profits. (More on that below.) And it’s the Chamber, not the AARP or any other organization, that’s gotten in extremely hot water recently for a scheme by its lawyers to spy on and destroy its critics through illegal means, to unlawfully transfer millions of charitable dollars into their political coffers, and to allow Chamber President Tom Donohue to receive such excessive compensation, it may itself be illegal.

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