The Hill reports that several major federal agencies are poised to fully ban lobbyists from serving. Norm Eisen, White House ethics adviser, sent out...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
The New York Times reports that hospital lobbyists claim Sen. Max Baucus hasn't yet delivered on the deal the two parties reached on the Senate Financ...
Steve Hildebrand | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
We need Congress to lead, so what do we do? Should we throw them out? Do we shut down the national political party committees, outlaw high-priced professional lobbying and ban PACs once and for all?
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
The National Journal's Under the Influence blog has published a comprehensivelist of the top 25 spenders -- and lobbying groups -- in the movement to ...
The Associated Press | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Amer...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt has come under fire from the Center for Public Integrity for engaging in a controversial pattern of providing earmarks to a fo...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The Sunlight Foundation released a video on Thursday highlighting its investigation of lobbyist bundlers with OpenSecrets.org. The investigation, whi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Members of Congress crammed more than 20 fundraisers into the last day of the quarter on Wednesday, according to invitations obtained by the nonpartis...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE: The Lobbyist Sunshine Initiative passed the finance committee unanimously on Thursday. It goes to a full vote at the Board's Oct. 6 meeting. ...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York
In light of all of Mayor Bloomberg's recent health initiatives, the non-profit Center for Consumer Freedom is asking, "When did the Big Apple become B...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
In today's Wall Street Journal, columnist Thomas Frank calls out the Washington Post at length for its fawning, frolicsome coverage of the way lobbyists infect every single corner of Capitol Hill like a lycanthropic plague.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
The Wall Street Journal reports that lobbyists have donated twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this year -- a direct result of Democratic contr...
HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
The Wall Street Journal reports that small mortgage banks are banding together to lobby their interests in Congress. A group of independent lenders h...
HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
The Christian Science Monitor examines the history of lobbyists wielding influence over policy in Washington. The report, which is part of a series...
HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
After the White House's announcement that federal agencies should avoid appointing lobbyists to federal advisory boards, more lobbyists are expected t...
The Washington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
The White House aspires to keep registered lobbyists from sitting on agency advisory boards and commissions but will not place a full ban on their app...
Peter Dreier | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Natalin Sarkisyan was a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., who had leukemia and needed a liver transplant. Cigna said the procedure was "too risky." In December 2007, Sarkisyan died.
HuffingtonPost.com | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing Wednesday on the plight of minorities in the current economic crisis. The hearin...
Under the Influence | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Federal lobbyists are decidedly uninvited to the Democratic Governors Association's $5,000-a-plate October fundraiser, according to the National Journ...
Jenna Staul | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Former Sen. Mel Martinez has joined the lobbying shop of major law firm DLA Piper -- just two weeks after resigning from the Senate. Martinez has joi...
Jenna Staul | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Political campaigns aren't filing too many bundler reports to the Federal Election Commission, reports The Hill. Politicians are required to report ...
Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
The Washington Post takes a look at the relationship between Rep. John Murtha and the Pennsylvania homeland security institute that bears his name. T...
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
On Monday, LobbyBlog asked readers to submit new nicknames for the lobbying industry after the Washington Post declared that "K Street" is "soooo Clin...
Jenna Staul | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
USA Today reports that leftover campaign funds are being put to use for lobbying firms. Ex-lawmakers who now work as lobbyists or advisers to lobbyi...
Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Larry Summers, the top White House economic adviser, on Friday accused financial lobby groups of using "death panel" type scare tactics to try to bloc...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics