How Tom Daschle Lobbies In Secret: Influence Laundering
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...
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...
Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
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."
The Washington Post | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
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...
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...
Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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...
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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...
bloomberg.com | Alison Vekshin and Robert Schmidt | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorski's staff that hi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Wall Street titans, recognizing that they have something of a credibility problem when it comes to opposing regulatory reform, are enlisting more symp...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Politico reported Tuesday that the Obama administration has upset the traditional pecking order of trade associations and business groups, realigning ...
Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
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.
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
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...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
The Associated Press reports that government aid for the unemployed will be a boon for the real estate, construction and mortgage industries. It's...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Several major banks are fending off legislation meant to regulate the lucrative derivatives market by hiring a high-powered financial lobbyist. The H...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
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...
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An energy lobbyist who was the subject of an investigation after a former California lawmaker was caught on tape bragging a...
The Yes Men | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
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.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Lobbyists this year terminated their registrations with the federal government in unusually high numbers, according to a study by the Center for Respo...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
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...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business