Obama Lobbyists

Obama Signed Off On Super PAC Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Details are beginning to emerge about the Monday night announcement that President Barack Obama's reelection campaign would lend its sup...

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Let's Get Money Out And Give America Its Government Back

Jimmy Williams | Posted 10.26.2011

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The Supreme Court continues to insist that corporations are people and that money is speech. I just don't agree. I don't think the Tea Party movement agrees. And I definitely don't think the Occupy Wall Street movement agrees that Exxon is a person.

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Was Publius Wrong? Money and Representative Government

Terry Newell | Posted 08.23.2011

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Madison did not believe in a world where a minority could tyrannize the majority through controlling the votes of representatives.

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Lobbying Group For Lobbyists Demands Obama Drop Executive Order On Contracting Donations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.01.2011

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WASHINGTON -- There are some occasions when a politician is better served facing opposition from a political entity than earning its endorsement. ...

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DNC Official: Obama Banning Special Interests From Contributing To 2012 Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In an attempt to keep a clean sheen on its 2012 convention, President Barack Obama's reelection campaign will refuse contributions from ...

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Report: Obama Didn't Make 'Significant Progress' In Curbing Big-Money Influence

The Hill | Kevin Bogardus | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration did not make "significant progress" cleaning up Washington in its first year, according to an independent report to be releas...

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Lobbyist Donation 'Bundling' Proves Difficult To Take On

Politico | Manu Raju | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye has long been a powerful booster of defense industry giants like Lockheed Martin, repeatedly helping out the $40 ...

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Critics Question Success Of Obama's War On Lobbyists

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is escalating his war on K Street, proposing a series of tough restrictions a year after he first issued policies aimed at tamping dow...

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An Escalating War On K Street

washingtonpost.com | Dan Eggen | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is escalating his war on K Street, proposing a series of tough restrictions a year after he first issued policies aimed at tamping dow...

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Lobbyists Mount Campaign To Sway Obama's State Of The Union Address

Roll Call | Kate Ackley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lobbyists and representatives for interest groups are engaging in last-minute conference calls and meetings with White House officials hoping to sway ...

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Lawyers, Guns and Money: A Coup Tests Obama's Will

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meet Lanny Davis, lobbyist and former legal counsel to Bill Clinton and campaigner for Hillary. He has been hired to represent the dictatorship that ousted President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras.

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Obama's Agenda: Hope, Change and Lobby-Centricity

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's self-imposed rule against lobbyists in his administration, and the method whereby he is now implementing his progressive agenda, hews toward a rather perverse irony, if not hypocrisy.

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Obama Manages To Skirt Lobbyists, Barely

New York Times | JEFF ZELENY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - When President Obama arrives at the Mandarin Oriental hotel for a Democratic fund-raising reception on Thursday night, the new White Hous...

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Lobbyists Fight Back: Accuse Obama Of Demonization, Suggest Lawsuit In The Offing

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A strange bedfellows coalition of non-governmental organizations is pushing back hard against one of the Obama administration's most stringent ethics ...

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Obama Imposes Strict New Rules For Stimulus Lobbyists

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says lobbyists pushing for projects in the stimulus package can't utter a word about them to administration ...

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Obama Versus "The Lobbyists"

Bara Vaida | Posted 05.25.2011

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While Obama has been railing against lobbyists, he has been hiring lobbyists too. 11 percent of Obama's 267 senior staff and nominees were registered lobbyists in the past five years.

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Obama To Lobbyists: I'm Ready To Fight (VIDEO)

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama challenged the nation's vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change heal...

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Daschle Chief Of Staff Violates New Lobbyist Rule

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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The new chief of staff to health reform czar Tom Daschle was a lobbyist through late last year and will have to recuse himself from issues he worked t...

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Another Lobbyist Headed Into Obama Administration

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite President Barack Obama's pledge to limit the influence of lobbyists in his administration, a recent lobbyist for investment banking giant Gold...

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Pentagon No. 2 Could Earn $500K Lobbying Pentagon

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The man nominated to be the Pentagon's second-in-command could make at least a half-million dollars next month with vested stock he...

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William Lynn: Watchdogs Upset Obama Broke His Own Lobbyist Rules

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration has waived its ethics rules to allow William Lynn to serve as the deputy secretary of Defense. Senate Armed Services Committ...

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Obama's Ethics Policy Upsets Would-Be Staffers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The decision by Barack Obama to restrict lobbyists from working on the same subject in his administration for two years was greeted with nearly unanim...

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Dozens Of Former Lobbyists Serving On Obama's Transition Team

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Barack Obama has imposed stricter conflict-of-interest restrictions on his White House transition team than any president before him. ...

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Obama Victory's Unintended Impact: Lobbying Boom

Washington Post | Matthew Mosk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama spent much of his presidential campaign decrying the influence of Washington lobbyists. In the 10 days since he was elected, he already h...

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New GOP Mail Goes After Obama On Lobbyists, Taxes, And Socialism

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The anti-Obama mail keeps piling up. A reader forwarded a set of pieces that go after the Illinois Democrat for not, really, being a thorn in the side...

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