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• Lobbyists’ voices in healthcare debate

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Times reports on Genentech lobbyists’ role in the healthcare debate. In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole ...
  5 hours ago

• National Iranian American Council’s status questioned

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Washington Times examines the status of the National Iranian American Council in this article this morning. Mr. [Trita] Parsi defended his decision to organize NIAC as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and declare on tax forms that his group does not engage in lobbying – a status that enables donors to ...
  1 day ago

• Controversy brewing over Thurber’s pro-Bonner ad

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Hill reports on a controversy surrounding Professor James Thurber’s involvement in an advertisement supporting Jack Bonner.  Bonner’s firm has been accused of sending forged lobbying letters to Congress.  According to reports, a temporary employee who was later fired sent the letters.
  4 days ago

• Realtors’ lobbying and the $8,000 first time home buyers tax credit

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Times connects lobbying efforts and the $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers. Realtors mobilized their 1.2 million members across the country to write and call their representatives and senators to urge extension of the credit, warning that failure to do so could cause this year’s housing market ...
  1 week ago

• Akin Gump’s Jankowsky asks about the donors

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Akin Gump’s Joel Jankowsky wrote this piece in The WSJ on the Obama administraton’s treatment of lobbyists and donors. The White House has repeatedly claimed that it wants “to change the way business is done in Washington.” If the Obama administration is serious about this goal, it should apply the ...
  1 week ago

• Who knew what, when, in forged lobbyist letters case?

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Politico reports on developments in the controversy surrounding a coal industry’s lobbying efforts. A coal industry association waited until several weeks after a major House vote on climate legislation to let lawmakers know that letters sent to them opposing the bill were fraudulent, according to a ...
  1 week ago

• Political contributions and earmarks

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Post connects earmarks to political contributions to Sen. Daniel Inouye here . Since 1997, executives of Navatek and its parent firm, the privately owned Pacific Marine, have contributed more than $29,000 to Inouye’s campaign coffers, most of it since 2003. And now, the eight-term Hawaii Democrat is ...
  1 week ago

• 13,428 lobbyists and $849 million spent

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Third quarter lobbying reports are in and the numbers are here .
  2 weeks ago

• Frightful prospects of political contributions and lobbying of the dead

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  CQ Moneyline reports on contributions from individuals identified as deceased and lobbying undertaken by estates.
  2 weeks ago

• Report on forged letter hearing

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Times describes yesterday’s hearing into forged letters involving climate change legislation. Jack Bonner, chairman of Bonner & Associates, repeatedly told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that he took “full responsibility” for the forged letters and should have ...
  2 weeks ago

• A new report from U.S. PIRG links lobbying, contributions, and tax reform

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  A new U.S. Public Interest Research Group report links lobbying expenditures and corporate PAC contributions to opposition to certain tax reform proposals. Huffington Post’s relatively new Lobbyblog notes the report here .
  2 weeks ago

• Hearing on fraudulent lobbying letters tomorrow

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold its hearing into fraudulent lobbying letters tomorrow, according to a committee a press release . The Select Committee has now discovered more than a dozen fraudulent letters were sent to several members of Congress as part of a campaign run ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two health care lobbyists in the spotlight

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Times features a story on Billy Tauzin and Karen Ignagni. The story of these two lobbyists — a Republican who found favor with a Democratic White House and a Democrat on the outs — illustrates the complexities Mr. Obama faces in the health care endgame. The president had some early success in bringing ...
  2 weeks ago

• PMA Group “castaways” doing well

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Roll Call provides an update on former staff of PMA Group.
  2 weeks ago

• Lobbying activity not reported

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Times discusses the various ways lobbying must be accounted for on disclosure forms.  The LDA allows groups to estimate lobbying expenditures using definitions created by that law and a 2007 ethics reform law. In general, method A focuses on visits and calls to lawmakers, aides and the administration and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rep. Visclosky and lobbying firm marketing

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Post reports on several defense companies that incorporated in Skokie, Illinois, in Rep. Peter Visclosky’s Congressional district. In rapid succession, the three-employee technology firm, NanoSonix, filed its incorporation papers in Skokie, Ill., and hired a Washington lobbying firm, K&L Gates , which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earmarks and lobbyists’ business model

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Roll Call reports on recent lobbying firm revenue here . Lobbying firms that once specialized in securing earmarks for their clients appear to be weathering both the economic downturn and public outrage over the “Bridge to Nowhere” and other pet projects that have been cast as a misuse of federal tax dollars.
  2 weeks ago

• Lobbyist revolving door

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Roll Call reports on some lobbyists who leave firms to go to Capitol Hill. Last year, Jeff Connaughton made about $750,000 in salary and bonuses at the lobby shop Quinn Gillespie & Associates, according to his report to Congress. Connaughton is on pace to make roughly $125,000 this year as chief of staff to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google lobbying and net neutrality

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  The Post discusses Google’s Eric Schmidt’s view of net neutrality and how Washington works. As for Google’s relationship with Washington’s power structure, Schmidt said the tech industry is still not as strong as others in its lobbying representation on Capitol Hill, but that that’s fine with him. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Q3 lobbying spending and the health care debate

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 147
  Under the Influence features two articles on Q3 lobbying spending.  Patton Boggs is tops in lobbying income.  Here are the details on health care lobbying.  Some say the health care debate could mean a decade of comfortable income for industry lobbyists.
  3 weeks ago

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