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Ethics Unraveling: On Compliance and Complacency 22 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
LAST WEEK, this blogger wrote on how the government is cracking down on illegal foreign lobbying. In July, the feds came down on Biassi Business Services, Inc. for failing to disclose domestic lobbyin...
Congressman Mixes Million with Billion 21 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
IN AN APRIL report by the Government Accountability Office, a quarter of registered lobbyists were cited as having failed to disclose their income and expenditures to the nearest $10,000. Last week, ...
Who are the Preeminent Association Lobbyists? You Tell Us. 21 Aug 2013 | 01:03 am
ASSOCIATION TRENDS, another division of Columbia Books, is now accepting nominations for the TRENDS 2013 Leading Association Lobbyists. This distinction is meant for an on-staff lobbyist of an associa...
Feds Enforce Rules on Foreign Lobbying 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is again cracking down on illegal foreign lobbying. Covington & Burling’s Brian D. Smith writes that federal prosecutors in Chicago have filed a criminal complaint against two ...
(More) Women in Congress 13 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE has a significance beyond Cruella de Vil and her evil trade–it’s the number of women in the 113th Congress. Eighty one currently serve in the House (including three delegates), and...
Summer is No Vacation for Members of Congress 8 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
ACCORDING TO The Washington Times, this year’s Congress is set to be one of the least productive in history. But that doesn’t mean it’s set to be the least active. Far from it, argue Roll Call’s Mere...
“The Capital’s Oldest Profession” 7 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
The following excerpt is from Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer’s Washington Confidential (Crown Publishers, 1951), published in Sunday’s New York Magazine. Lobbying is as old as Magna Charta, which first g...
Congressmen Put Their Feet Up 6 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
CONGRESS IS BACK home, yes, but that doesn’t mean they’re hiding. Loads of Twitpics are being posted by Washington lawmakers in their moments of leisure. There’s Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) with his ...
Pot Lobby Divided 2 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
THE MARIJUANA INDUSTRY is again converging on Capitol Hill, and not just to celebrate the grand opening of the District’s first medical marijuana dispensary. According to POLITICO, pot legalization ...
Lobbying Moves to the Stables 31 Jul 2013 | 08:04 pm
THE TENNESSEE WALKING horse, famous for its elegant gait (“Big Lick“), is at the center of a lobby battle between animal rights groups and horse owners. The issue being debated is a practice known as ...
