Category Archives: lobbying
“A New Recipe for Election Reform”
Bauer and Potter WaPo oped:
Four decades after the campaign finance reforms that followed Watergate, arguments over the role of money in politics seem increasingly tired and unproductive. We ought to build on the experience of recent years and… Continue reading
“Congress Members Sprint for Money to Lobby After Election”
Bloomberg: “Looking to expand its lobbying and government affairs practice, Covington & Burling LLP turned to those who know Congress best: elected officials just finishing their terms on Capitol Hill.”
“In D.C. Circuit, Lobbyists Fight Obama Lobbying Ban”
“The Reverse Revolving Door: How Corporate Insiders Are Rewarded Upon Leaving Firms For Congress”
“Lobbyists Keep Freshmen Coming Back for More Checks”
“Wonkbook: The hopey-changey thing isn’t working out so well”
Ezra Klein: “Under Obama, today’s Democratic Party is not the party of campaign-finance reform in any serious way. They favor it abstractly, but with the exception of relatively modest laws meant to roll back the effects of Citizens United … Continue reading
“Obama’s campaign finance reform plans have faded”
WaPo:
President Obama’s once-broad ambitions to clamp down on the influence of special interests have been largely abandoned since his reelection, dismaying longtime allies in the campaign-finance reform movement….
Reformers of both parties describe the president’s campaign finance record… Continue reading
“Just How Many Newt Gingrich’s Are There on K Street? Estimating the True Size and Shape of Washington’s Revolving Door”
Timothy LaPira and Herschel F. Thomas III have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s choice not to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) for his “historical advice” to Freddie Mac was a… Continue reading
“Graham’s campaign collects bundle from lobbyists”
OFA, Which Won’t Take Lobbyist Money, Registers as Lobbyist
Free Beacon reports (via Eric Brown).
“Conservative Group Helping Industry Fight Federal Cuts”
NYT: “As one of the country’s largest and oldest conservative advocacy groups, the American Conservative Union has long fought to rein in federal spending and limit the size of government. But behind the scenes, the group has formed a… Continue reading
“Tax Lobby Builds Ties to Chairman of Finance Panel”
Must-read NYT:
To make their case as Congress prepares to debate a rewrite of the nation’s tax code, this diverse set of businesses has at least one strategy in common: they have retained firms that employ lobbyists who are… Continue reading
“Recommendations for Improving the Regulation of Federal Lobbyists”
New position paper from the American League of Lobbyists which punts on the issue of campaign finance regulation.