A rule proposed by the Obama Administration to limit the types of gifts federal employees can receive from lobbyists — including free trade show admittance and paid travel and hotel expenses — has had its review-period extended for 30 additional days.
Former lobbyists now working as congressional staffers by far outnumber elected members of Congress, according to a new analysis by the research group LegiStorm.
Lobbyists have been busy courting top GOP House members slated to take over the chairmanships on important committees should Republicans win the House, but it’s important to note that not every GOP committee leadership position has been decided. Some top Republicans are seeking waivers to preserve their ranking status More…
Watchdog groups tend to cry foul when lobbyists solicit earmarks for their corporate clients from legislators. Lobbyists, in turn, often blame the groups for conjuring up images of corruption when congressmen are merely responding to their constituents’ needs. Yesterday, however, members of both tribes got together and presented a More…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost the Alaska Republican Senate primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller last month, is calling on the oil industry for help in organizing the write-in campaign to win back her Senate seat.
Following up on President Obama’s speech on the economy in Ohio last week, in which Obama decided to make things personal and call out House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) eights times in 45 minutes for having “no new ideas,” the Democratic National Committee has launched a new website: More…
President Obama’s “ethics czar,” is going to Europe as an ambassador — and it’s causing anxiety among government watchdog groups who admire the work accomplished under his watch. Norman Eisen, who founded a government oversight group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington before joining the administration, instituted More…
The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein tallied lobbying disclosures yesterday to find BP snapping up more than two dozen new lobbying hires with previous congressional or White House experience — an eye-popping total even for a corporation that has quickly become the nation’s most infamous.
But considering the flood More…
This week, Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill moved to the floor of the Senate. And with that bill close to passage, Wall Street and lobbyists turned their attention to Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and the Senate Agriculture Committee’s proposal to regulate More…
It’s been obvious for some time that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) was unlikely to support comprehensive climate legislation. What wasn’t clear was the extent of her influence, which, according to a new report by the Sunlight Foundation, goes well beyond her single vote in the Senate:
Six of Lincoln’s
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