Stories tagged "lobbying"

Freshman Democratic lawmakers who attend a reception next week in their honor at the Democratic National Convention will be in breach of the same tighter ethics and lobbying measures those freshmen helped enact, according to a campaign-finance watchdog.

Why chose lobbying over campaign contributions? Lobbying is more effective at crushing energy bills, as we have seen this year. It’s no coincidence that recently the Senate blocked the extension renewable energy tax credits.

IDEE Flessibili Precarie: Signore e signori, cari amici e lettori, ecco a voi Daniele Buzzurro!

So much for trimming the pork.

You know the saying “Sometimes, the apple doesn’t fall in your favor” or “That’s the way the cookie crumbles” and “Things don’t always go your way”… yes well, say that to the heap of US corporations who spend millions of dollars lobbyi

It must be Google week in Washington because representatives from the company were involved in at least three separate policy discussions. Fortunat

"Money, money, money. Everywhere you turn. If you look closely enough at the news — and only if you look very closely — you’ll find the trail of obligatory disclosures Microsoft reluctantly unleashes to give away clues about its lobbying activities"

A second high-profile aide to John McCain’s presidential campaign has resigned over Myanmar lobbying charges, FOX News confirmed on Sunday. Doug Davenport, McCain’s regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, reportedly founded the DCI Gro

Just as Al Gore did not invent the Internet, he did not invent global warming theory. Scientists invented it, and they continue to fuel the mass hysteria they created by making predictions about climate change and its dire consequences for our planet.

Senator Barack Obama laid much of the blame for the current financial difficulties on industry lobbyists and politicians.