Bill Allison for Foreign Policy: The advocacy organization’s annual budget averaged about $66 million between 2009 and 2013, according to federal tax records, but it told Congress it never spent more than $3 million per year lobbying the federal… Continue reading

NYT: Corporations have poured money into universities to fund research for decades, but now, the debate over bioengineered foods has escalated into a billion-dollar food industry war. Companies like Monsanto are squaring off against major organic firms like Stonyfield… Continue reading

WaPo: The week before Labor Day may be a quiet one in Washington. But in the nation’s capital and across the country, legions of lawyers and lobbyists are scrambling to weigh in one of the most consequential regulations of… Continue reading

The Washington Examiner reports.

Politico reports.

Star Tribune: Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman has painstakingly maneuvered to stay in the game here. Long a fixture on the Minnesota political scene until he lost his bid for a second term, Coleman’s day job now includes representing… Continue reading

Politico reports.

Release: The Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) is broken and it is time for Congress to fix it.  The LDA is falling woefully short of its stated goal of “ensuring public awareness of the efforts of paid lobbyists to influence… Continue reading

Russ Choma for Mother Jones: The issue is that the six-year ban would only prevent former members of Congress from taking part in “official” lobbying—a very specifically defined set of activities. Avoid those activities—or earn less than 20 percent of… Continue reading

Wapo reports.