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The Big Money Spending to Lobby for Libra Begins: Facebook adds Susan Zook to its team of lobbyists. Zook is a former aide to Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which held a hearing on #libracoin last month.

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Hughes, who left the social media giant in 2007 and cashed out his nearly $500 million worth of stock, has been making the rounds in the nation’s capital to press the case for breaking up the social network.

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