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MLive.com
March 14, 2010
... lawmakers are less inclined to exercise critical oversight over state agencies and are more inclined to take their policy directions from Lobbyists. ...
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
March 14, 2010
While state leaders and lobbyists have seen a 17-page list of proposed reductions, Henault laments that most Vermonters have yet to learn the specifics. ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
March 14, 2010
Welch wrote, "Pro-reform Lobbyists outspent anti-reform Lobbyists on advertising by a factor of 5 to 1. There's a three-letter word for blaming the defeat ...
Henderson Gleaner
March 14, 2010
After a push by Bauer, and by more than 20
Indiana newspapers, state lawmakers endorsed a sweeping overhaul of ethics rules regulating how
Lobbyists ...
CBS News
March 14, 2010
WLNS
March 13, 2010
... under term limits,
Michigan lawmakers say they spend less time monitoring state agencies and are more likely to turn to
Lobbyists as an information source.
Raw Story
March 13, 2010
"Until now, corporations only influenced politics with high-paid Lobbyists and backroom deals," the company's YouTube account declares. ...
NewsOK.com
March 13, 2010
Some have posted signs in their offices that they do not accept gifts, but Lobbyists still drop off gifts and legislators must report them if they're unable ...
The Virginian-Pilot
March 13, 2010
Between January and March, lobbyist Bob Matthias spends more time in Richmond than at home with his wife in Virginia Beach. ...
Daily Beast
March 12, 2010
Lobbyists who have devoted their professional lives to scoring no-bid contracts for their clients through federal
earmarks are panicking after House ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 12, 2010
But, when the outrage faded from the news, the bank Lobbyists were still on Capitol Hill and the Senate failed to take any action. ...
Politico (blog)
March 12, 2010
But while the Obama team has been defending, even celebrating, lawyers' advocacy for unsavory clients, when it comes to lobbyists the administration takes a ...
Huffington Post (blog)
March 12, 2010
"Several hospital
Lobbyists involved in
the White House deals said it was understood as a condition of their support that the final legislation would not ...
Center for Responsive Politics
March 12, 2010
Lobbyists SCRAMBLE TO FILL
earmark VOID: Faster than Rep. Eric Massa could resign his congressional seat, members of the House of Representatives are this ...
National Journal (blog)
March 12, 2010
NJ: How was the climate for Lobbyists during the late 19th century -- a time of expansion for the federal government -- similar to that of today? ...
Politics Daily (blog)
March 12, 2010
Now, it's being considered by the Senate -- where Big
finance Lobbyists and Republicans are trying to strangle this watchdog in the crib. On
Monday, Sen. ...
SolveClimate (blog)
March 12, 2010
The Sunlight Foundation took a look at Lobbyists with personal ties to the congresswoman and found that at least six of Lincoln's former staff members now ...
The Hill
March 12, 2010
firefighter and police
Lobbyists view this Congress as the best chance in years to expand collective bargaining ...
Capitol News Connection
March 12, 2010
The Virginian-Pilot
March 12, 2010
The chairs are moved out, the sandbox set aside and a battalion of smartly dressed Lobbyists armed with laptops and briefcases sets up a base of operations. ...
TheNewspaper.com
March 12, 2010
Primary red light camera industry advocate in
Florida fails to register as a lobbyist with the state. On
Tuesday, Melissa Wandall appeared at the Florida ...
TPMMuckraker (blog)
March 12, 2010
The same Washington lobbyist who led the sub-prime
mortgage industry's successful bid to shoot down government efforts to curtail risky lending is now ...
Eyewitness News Memphis
March 12, 2010
To get that
money, the hospital is paying four
Lobbyists almost $25000 a month. One of those
Lobbyists is Shelby County Mayor Joe Ford's brother, ...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 12, 2010
The notion that certain high-powered Lobbyists have access and influence with certain politicians is no secret in Sacramento; their whispered conversations ...
Detroit Free Press
March 12, 2010
Voters who enacted term limits to keep their legislators closer to home just drove them deeper into the arms of Lansing's Lobbyists. ...
Washington Post
March 12, 2010
European Voice
March 11, 2010
Some 60% of lobby groups in Brussels have still not entered their names on a voluntary register of Lobbyists introduced two years ago by the European ...
WHYY
March 11, 2010
Lobbyists are lining up to combat
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter's proposed soda
tax. But Philadelphia residents could soon get more information on those ...
The Guardian
March 11, 2010
A controversial amendment to the digital
economy bill that could block sites such as YouTube is copied almost word-for-word from a draft written by the BPI, ...
TPMMuckraker (blog)
March 11, 2010
The same Washington lobbyist who led the sub-prime
mortgage industry's successful bid to shoot down government efforts to curtail risky lending is now ...
Washington Post (blog)
March 11, 2010
Interest groups begin campaigns for legislation by launching "fan" pages, and Lobbyists and advocates have on more than one occasion this session touted a ...
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
March 11, 2010
Former Representative Chris Shays, a
Connecticut Republican, criticized Boehner's ties to
Lobbyists. ``The problem John faces is that he's so close to K ...
EUobserver.com
March 11, 2010
Frustrated with the various definitions of who is and who is not a lobbyist, Alter-
EU restricted themselves to investigating just those firms which are ...
The Hill (blog)
March 11, 2010
A giant inflatable pig was planted in front of the Dupont Circle offices of the National Association of Broadcasters ...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 11, 2010
Ideas being discussed include banning text messages from Lobbyists during meetings, though it would be virtually impossible to enforce; prohibiting the use ...
Arizona Republic
March 11, 2010
It seems that in
Arizona, our laws and policies are formed and written by
private Lobbyists and groups such as the Center for Arizona Policy, the Goldwater ...
Investor's Business Daily
March 11, 2010
The e-mails obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request show how, starting last April,
Lobbyists at the American
wind energy Association became ...
KYW1060.com
March 11, 2010
by KYW's David Madden
Lobbyists are hard at work in
New Jersey, but they're not spending much on the decision makers, according to a new state report. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 11, 2010
... goodwill from their reform efforts upon claiming the majority, including banning gifts from Lobbyists and more disclosure of lobbyist activity. ...
