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...
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
The Center for Media and Democracy has unveiled new icon to go with Wall Street's golden parachutes and golden handcuffs: The Golden Throne, an award ...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Producers of natural gas are readying a lobbying effort before a climate change bill goes before the Senate this fall, reports the Dallas Morning News...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
At noon Thursday, the House Committee on Agriculture was well into a hearing on the Obama administration's plan to regulate over-the-counter derivativ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Max Baucus was paid handsomely (in campaign contributions) by the health care industry to deliver a health care reform bill that only the health care ...
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
The Defense Department's request last week for congressional approval of the sale of $8 billion worth of PAC-3 missiles to Turkey was the latest victo...
Washington Post | Brady Dennis | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama will head to Wall Street on Monday to try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system, an undertaking...
Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
The marketing executive at the center of a controversial series of Washington Post-sponsored dinner "salons" has resigned from the newspaper some 10 w...
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Dave Levinthal at the Center for Responsive Politics reminds us this morning that nothing in Congress goes unlobbied. The Edward M. Kennedy Serve Amer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Now that Congress is back in session, its members are busy with two jobs: Making laws and raising campaign funds. Good government groups insist the tw...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A scandal involving a family-values legislator caught boasting about his sexual escapades with his lobbyist mistresses crea...
The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...
washingtonpost.com | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Overall spending on lobbying has leveled off for the first time in a decade, according to disclosure data filed with Congress. Lobbying revenue for ma...
Adam Clark Estes | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Earlier this summer, The Washington Post published an eye-catching analysis of the revolving door between Congress and the health industry. The newspaper estimated that at least 350 former staffers and members of Congress are now lobbying their former Capitol Hill colleagues on legislation to change the health care system.
Larry Flynt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
You hear it more and more, sometimes in code, sometimes spelled out. We have reached the tipping point. The enemy has been identified. It's not left versus right in America. It's democracy versus greed.
David Dayen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Private industry has begged off completely from limiting health care costs through any means other than denying coverage to their customers and rationing.
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
As the summer of the Democrats� discontent winds to a close, the head count for health care reform in the Senate begins in earnest. One of the key D...
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
LittleSis uncovers some quality dirt in the Senate Finance Committee: Senator Max Baucus's chief health adviser, Elizabeth Fowler, has been called the...
Wendy Block | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Milk. All special interest patrons of America's Big Money bordello. What are good progressives to do? Either we get lobotomies or we fix the way the country finances politics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
Lobbyists representing seven of Wall Street's top ten bailout beneficiaries and their trade associations made more than $6 million in campaign contrib...
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business