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Congressional Research Service Praises Lobbying Reforms Under Obama

politico.com | KENNETH P. VOGEL | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Crs, Melanie Sloan, Lobbying, Lobbyists, President Obama, Norm Eisen, Lobbying Reform, Congressional Research Service, Barack Obama, Politics News

Critics across the political spectrum have lambasted the Obama administration's restrictions on lobbying as everything from a loophole-ridden politica...

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FEC Reverses Lawmakers' Self-Restriction On Corporate Jets; Senate "Should Be Furious": NYT Editorial

The New York Times | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: FEC Loophole, Federal Election Commission, Senate Corporate Jet Rule, Lobbyists, Fec, Lawmakers Corporate Jets, Corporate Jets, Politics News

The Federal Election Commission -- the supposed referee of fair campaigning -- has just created an ethics loophole big enough for lobbyists to fly a c...

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The US Chamber of Commerce Is Killing the Copenhagen Climate Treaty

James Hoggan | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already done everything it can to kill the chances of a legally binding agreement emerging from the Copenhagen climate change summit.

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The Fight For Biogenerics

Hilary Kramer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anna Eshoo, Debra Barrett, Amgen, Biogenerics, Big Pharma, Biologics, Teva-Pharmaceuticals, Genentetech, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Special Interests, K Street, Health Care, Politics News

You know a health care bill isn't right for the American people when it carves out a legal monopoly for Big Pharma and Botox. Our Congressional leaders should be capable of more.

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Obama Pushes Lobbyists Off Federal Advisory Boards

Posted 11.27.2009 | Business

Read More: White House, Lobbyists, Obama Administration, Norm Eisen, Lobbyblog, Federal Advisory Boards, Barack Obama, Business News

In a little-noticed blog post published on the White House website in September, President Obama's special counsel for ethics and government reform No...

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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

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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Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

Carl Pope | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Co2, Kerry-Boxer, Lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute, John Kerry, Api, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News

Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.

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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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Michael Bennet, Jane Norton To Attend Lobbyist Fundraiser At Same DC Townhouse

The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jane Norton Fundraising, 2010, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbyists, Michael Bennet Fundraising, Colorado Senate Fundraising, Jane Norton, Michael Bennet, Fundraising, Denver News

Republican candidate Jane Norton was in town Monday for a big-money fundraiser at a Capitol Hill townhouse owned by partners of Williams & Jensen, a p...

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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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Obama's Magical Surrealism in Honduras

Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Lobbyists, Central America, Foreign Affairs, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, World News, World News

In light of the Honduran elections, Obama's representative decided that might be a good time to ridicule all the Latin American democracies.

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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

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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Can We Afford to Let Blanche Lincoln Stop Health Care Reform Dead in Its Tracks?

Howie Klein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Races, Health Care Reform, Arkansas, Filibuster, Cloture, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, K Street, Lobbyists, Politics News

Blue America has run TV spots against Lincoln all summer and fall and she's watched her re-elect numbers dwindle. This week Blue America has a brand new ad for Arkansas voters to look at.

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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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The World's Original "Banana Republic" Strong-Arms the World's "Last Remaining Superpower?"

Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Central America, Foreign Affairs, Lobbyists, Honduras, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

The deal to reinstate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya unraveled this week, leaving the U.S. as the only government in the western hemisphere willing to let the recent military coup there stand.

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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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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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VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Issue 2, Regulations, Lobbyists, Organic Food, Ohio, Factory Farms, Food, Agribusiness, Corporations, Green News

Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution to create a small regulatory panel to oversee all of Ohio's livestock. Corporate agribusinesses love the idea, but family farms will be crushed.

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Center For Responsive Politics Spotlights Lawmakers-Turned-Lobbyists

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Dick Armey, Lobbyblog, Mel Martinez, Lobbyists, Business News

The Center for Responsive Politics examines the all-too-common road from Capitol Hill to K Street -- of the 44 lawmakers to leave Congress midterm, 16...

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Rachel Maddow, Ed Markey Discuss Lobbyist Fraudsters

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ed Markey, Video, Accce, Rach Maddow, Bonner and Associates, Lobbyists, Waxman-Markey, Lobbyblog, Politics News

On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, she focused attention on two lobbying firms that have recently taken a turn in the baleful eye of the spotlight: s...

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