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Arthur Delaney

How Tom Daschle Lobbies In Secret: Influence Laundering

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Transparency, Senate, Tom Daschle, Lobbying, Health Insurance Reform, Stealth Lobbying, Influence Laundering, Business News

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will soon move from one big lobbying firm to another even bigger lobbying firm. It's a career boost for a fi...

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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News
Han Shan

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

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Emily Miller: Jack Abramoff Scandal Still Hurts

The Washington Post | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Abramof, Lobbying, Jack Abramoff Scandal, Scanlon, Media News, Washington Post, Media, Emily Miller, Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff, Emily Miller Jack Abramoff, Media News

She claims to be well past the events that turned her into a pawn in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, but as she talks about each twist and turn, t...

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CFTC Gets Derivatives Advice From Industry Insiders

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cantwell, Goldman Sachs, Lobbyists, Cftc, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, JP Morgan, Obama, Citigroup Global Markets, Federal Advisory Committee Act, White House, Euronext Liffe, Maria Cantwell, Financial Crisis, Government Accountability Office, Jill Sommers, Cme, Lobbying, Derivatives, Richard Berliand, Financial Reform, Joanne Medero, Arthur Hahn, Goldman, Barclays, Jill E. Sommers, Barack Obama, Gao, Derivatives Trading, Robert Klein, Bonnie Litt, Citigroup, Politics News

Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...

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Chamber Of Commerce Solicits Money For Economist Who Will Give Bad Review Of Health Care Bill

Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Health Care Reform Bill, Public Option, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Chamber of Commerce, James P. Gelfand, Health Care, Joseph Cao, Politics News

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting funds to pay an economist $50,000 to study health care reform legislation and issue (what the lobby presume...

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NYT: 22 Republicans, 20 Democrats Used Lobbying Firm's Statements In House Health Care Speeches

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Statements, Roche, Health Care Reform Speeches, Ryan Mackinnon Vasapoli Berzok, Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Joe Wilson, Biotech, Democrats, House Speeches, Speeches, Michael Conaway, Outsourcing, Donald M. Payne, Yvette D. Clarke, Bill Pascrell, Genetech, Phil Are, Lee Terry, Lobbying Firms, Lynn Jenkins, Memos, Health Care Reform, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Robert A. Brady, Emails, Health Care, Republicans, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's la...

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Wall Street Bank Lobby Faces 'Live Ammo' As Lawmakers Ponder Breaking Up Big Banks

bloomberg.com | Alison Vekshin and Robert Schmidt | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Lobby, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wall Street, Lobbying, Financial Services Forum, Lobbyists, Paul Kanjorski, Glass-Steagall, Too Big to Fail. Financial Reform, Business News

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorski's staff that hi...

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Ryan Grim

Wall Street Banks Tricking Little Guys Into Lobbying for Them

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Senate, Lobbying, Derivatives, Banks, Lobbyblog, Derivatives Legislation, Chris Dodd, Wall Street, Transparency, Business News

Wall Street titans, recognizing that they have something of a credibility problem when it comes to opposing regulatory reform, are enlisting more symp...

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How The White House Is Shuffling The Lobbyist Pecking Order

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Business News

Politico reported Tuesday that the Obama administration has upset the traditional pecking order of trade associations and business groups, realigning ...

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My Electric Summer, When Washington Helped Resurrect the EV

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Bush Administration, Electric Vehicles, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Menlo Park, Washington, Green News, Zero Motorcycles, Stimulus Plan, Ev, Santa Cruz, Tesla, Evs, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

If this summer was the coming out party for the electric car, Washington was the host. They may seem unlikely bedfellows, but I'm convinced the EV companies have learned how to play politics.

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, Gop, Social Justice, Communion, Catholic Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Lobbyists, Obama, American Catholics, Bishops, John Kerry, White House, Universal Health Care, Vatican, Health Care, Abortion, Church, Poverty, Public Option, Lobbying, Catholic, Democrats, House, Catholics, Religion, Senate, Catholic Church, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Christianity, Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Republicans, Politics News

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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Proposals In House Would Curb 'Too Big To Fail' Banks, Firms

Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fed, Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Sec, Larry Summers, Too Big to Ail, Lobbying, Bank of America, Lobbyists, Chase, Paulson, Economy, Metlife, Regulation, JP Morgan, Obama, Democrats, Prudential, Recession, Barney Frank, House, Senate, House Financial Services Committee, Henry Paulson, White House, Treasury, Hank Paulson, Kanjorski, JP Morgan Chase, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...

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Arthur Delaney

Tony Podesta: Turning Change Into Dollars

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Transparency, Change, Lobbying, Obama, Tony Podesta, Business News

Tony and Heather Podesta basked in the praise when they donated the iconic, five-foot tall "Hope" portrait of Barack Obama to the National Portrait Ga...

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Housing Industry Lobbying Pays Off With Aid Extension

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Joblessness, Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Housing Crisis, Business News

The Associated Press reports that government aid for the unemployed will be a boon for the real estate, construction and mortgage industries. It's...

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Banks Hire Derivatives Expert To Fight Financial Reform

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Meltdown, Lobbying, Derivatives, Lobbyblog, Banking Industry, Financial Regulatory Overhaul, Edward Rosen, Business News

Several major banks are fending off legislation meant to regulate the lucrative derivatives market by hiring a high-powered financial lobbyist. The H...

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Jason Linkins

Bank Lobby Bloodied But Unbowed In Fight Against Consumer Protection

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Banking Lobby, Consumer Protection, Wall Street, Lobbyists, Consumer Financial Protection Act, Business News

Bloomberg's Yalman Onaran takes a glance at the state of play on the consumer protection front, and sizes up the influence that the banking lobby has ...

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Jason Linkins

Lobbyists Dodge Regulations Through Reinvention

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lobbyist Deregistrations, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Business News, Lobbyblog, Politics News

So, if you happen to have read a recent study by the Center for Responsive Politics and OMB Watch entitled "Lobbyists Terminating Their Federal Regis...

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Heidi DeJong Barsuglia Denies Mike Duvall Affair: Energy Lobbyist Reinstated After Recorded Sex Talk

AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: California, Mike Duvall Affair, On Tape, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Audio, Mike Duvall, Recorded, Duvall, Barsuglia, Lobbyist, Sex Chat, Microphone, Video, Sex Talk, Sex Conversation, Sempra Energy, Yorba Linda, Gop, Heidi Dejong Barsuglia, Politics News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An energy lobbyist who was the subject of an investigation after a former California lawmaker was caught on tape bragging a...

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Chamber of Commerce M.I.A.! Chevron Takes the Heat!

The Yes Men | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Chamber of Commerce, Pollution, Activism, Lobbying, Oil Companies, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Green News
The Yes Men

Chevron is a target of citizen protests in California, across the United States and around the world because of Chevron's role in climate destruction, public health abuse, and wars for oil.

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Lobbyist De-Registrations On The Rise

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Ethics, Lobbyist Deregistrations, Business News

Lobbyists this year terminated their registrations with the federal government in unusually high numbers, according to a study by the Center for Respo...

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New Sports Fans Lobby Entering Telecom Wars

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Verizon, Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Telecom, Business News

Verizon is among several telecom giants launching a new advocacy group purported to be a lobby for sports fans -- pressing lawmakers on issues such as...

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Arthur Delaney

Bernanke's Conferences At Luxury Resorts: Do Lobbyists Show Up?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Fed, Federal Reserve, Bernanke Resort, Fed Resort, Bernanke Bacara, Business News

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been spending some time at fancy places. Last week, Bernanke spoke at a Fed conference at a luxurious resort...

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White House Fawns Over Big Donors

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Lobbying, President Obama, Donors, Business News

Being a top Democratic donor can have its perks, reports the Washington Times.. At least 39 Democratic donors attended a White House fete on St. Pat...

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Jason Linkins

Lieberman's Filibuster Announcement A Boon To Insurance Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Joe Lieberman, Public Option, Lobbyblog, Lobbying, Politics News

One of the ironies that should be noted in the wake of Senator Joe Lieberman's (I-Conn.) decision to embark on another journey of pointless intransige...

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