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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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 Lobbyists 
 Lard Up 
 Senate 
 Stimulus 

Tax benefits for ag, pharmaceuticals inserted into bill

Feb 3, 09 10:28 AM CST
(Newser) - With the Senate debate on its stimulus bill cranking up today, interest groups are scrambling to extract their pound of flesh. The Wall Street Journal reports that lobbyists have already helped swell the total to $885 billion, in many cases with small changes in wording and technical definitions. For example,... More »

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Congress • Senate • lobbyists • economic stimulus package

OPINION

 Times to 
 Daschle: 
 Go Home 

Tax, conflict-of-interest issues should disqualify ex-Senate leader

Feb 3, 09 9:38 AM CST
(Newser) - In the wake of revelations about his tax oversights and industry ties, the New York Times is calling on Tom Daschle to step aside and let Barack Obama pick a “less-blemished” Health and Human Services secretary. Daschle’s $128,000 tax lapse dwarfs even Tim Geithner’s. “... More »

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Health and Human Services • tax evasion • lobbyists • health care reform • UnitedHealth • Tom Daschle • Obama administration • Obama Cabinet

(Newser) - Timothy Geithner announced new rules cracking down on lobbyist influence over government bailout funds today, the Wall Street Journal reports. “American taxpayers deserve to know that their money is spent in the most effective way to stabilize the financial system,” the newly-minted Treasury secretary said. Contact with... More »

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lobbying • lobbyists • bailout • Troubled Asset Relief Program • financial crisis • Timothy Geithner • TARP

ANALYSIS

Dem Lobbyists Leave K Street For Capitol

Obama's new rules have some seeking 'cleanse' on Hill first

Jan 26, 09 2:37 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s tough anti-lobbying policies have Democrats headed for Capitol Hill, Politico reports. “Any Democrat worth their salt in this town wants to go work for the administration,” one lobbyist says. “But they’re just not talking to us.” Because Obama has strict policies against... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrat • lobbyist • lobbyists • Obama administration

 Bailout Bucks Go to Lobbyists 

Bailed-out firms' spending on lobbying threatens to spark government backlash

Jan 24, 09 6:59 AM CST
(Newser) - A surprising number of firms that reaped billions in bailout funds from the government have been spending big to lobby the government for more, the New York Times reports. Citigroup, General Motors, and at least seven others have paid lobbyists millions since October. Some recipients actually increased the amount they... More »

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lobbying • lobbyists • bailout • Washington lobbyists • Troubled Asset Relief Program • financial crisis • TARP

 Republicans Flee DC 
 Ahead of Inauguration 

Depressed and out of a job, it's time to go to Switzerland

Jan 2, 09 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The Obama inauguration is looking like a good time for Republicans to abandon DC, reports Politico. Depressed by the reminder of their defeat, and often newly unemployed, they're renting their houses to visiting Democrats and heading to Vegas or Europe. Says a former John McCain flack, “I will also... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican Party • vacation • lobbyists • inauguration

Sans Stevens, Lobbyists Down a Sugar Daddy

Hard times fall on careers that hinged
on access to Ted

Dec 22, 08 8:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Some Alaskans make a living off of oil piped from the Arctic. Others, for years, have made it off of federal money, piped from DC by former Sen. Ted Stevens. But with Uncle Ted's downfall, lobbyists who traded on their access to him face disaster, the New York Times reports.... More »

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Alaska • corruption • Ted Stevens • lobbyists

 Spouses Put Obama's 
 Lobbying Rules to Test 

President-elect struggles with ethical promises

Dec 15, 08 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - The spouses of some of Barack Obama’s top appointees are lobbyists, the New York Times reports, presenting a test to strict ethics policies the Democrat pushed on the campaign trail. Health Secretary-designate Tom Daschle’s wife, Linda, is one of Washington’s top aviation lobbyists, and reported energy-czar pick... More »

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ethics • Barack Obama • lobbying • lobbyists • transition • Tom Daschle • President Obama • Carol Browner • Linda Daschle

 Pols Flout Ethics 
 Law on Trip 
 to Carib Isle 

Opulent weekend
was funded by top corporations

Nov 30, 08 8:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Six US lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, have been caught rubbing shoulders with lobbyists on a trip that violates federal ethics laws, the New York Post reports. Joining them were three New York officials, including the state's governor—who avoided breaking the law by paying his own... More »

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ethics • Congress • New York • Caribbean • ethics bill • lobbyists • political scandal • David Paterson • Congressional Black Caucus • House Ethics Committee

Atheists Offer 'Reason's Greetings' in Marketing Blitz

With fewer Americans claiming organized religion, nonbelievers step up campaign

Nov 18, 08 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - It just isn’t the holiday season in America until nonbelievers and the devout begin sparring. This year, the godless are on the offensive, launching a marketing campaign to capitalize on the loosening grip of organized religion, telling neighbors, “We’re just like you,” the Wall Street Journal... More »

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religion • secularism • Christian conservatives • lobbyists • Christmas • atheists • nonbelievers • HumanLight • Bill Maher Grid

 Dem Lobbyists Step Up,
 Prepare to Cash In 


High premium on connection to the party in power

Nov 14, 08 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - As Democrats adjust to controlling all three branches of government, Democratic lobbyists are flying high, reports the Washington Post. Barack Obama's stated resistance to influence-peddling notwithstanding, the trend that took off after control of Congress flipped 2 years ago is gaining speed. “In this climate, Democratic backgrounds are attractive... More »

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lobbyists • Democratic Party • interest groups • transition team • President Obama

Lobbyists Gobbling Up $700B Bailout

There's not much left as everyone fights for piece of shrinking pie

Nov 12, 08 7:51 AM CST
(Newser) - That $700 billion allocated in this fall's federal bailout sounded like a lot of money—but after a feeding frenzy led by Washington lobbyists, there's not much cash left over, reports the New York Times. Of the first tranche of $350 billion, only $60 billion remains uncommitted, and everyone from... More »

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lobbying • Treasury Department • lobbyists • lobbying blitz • bailout • Wall Street bailout

Obama Team Lays Out
'Strictest' Ethics Rules

Lobbyists, corporations banned from contributing to transition

Nov 12, 08 2:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's transition team has set out what one official called "the strictest, most far-reaching ethics rules of any transition in history,” the Hill reports. Lobbyists, corporations and PACs will be barred from donating funds to the transition operation, and lobbyists on the team won’t be allowed... More »

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ethics • Barack Obama • lobbyist • lobbyists • conflicts of interest • transition • Obama administration • transition team • John Podesta • President Obama

 Biofuels' 
 Green Cred 
 in Dispute 

Some say producing more of the greener fuel makes world less green overall

Nov 11, 08 12:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Biofuels, once hailed as a planet-saving alternative to gasoline, are now savaged as much the opposite, the Wall Street Journal reports, with critics charging the “ripple effect” on land use globally actually adds climate-harming carbon. The EPA has signaled plans to modify biofuel emissions measurements to reflect that, but... More »

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environment • biofuel • Environmental Protection Agency • lobbyists

Lobbyists Lavish Gifts on Lawmakers' Fave Charities

More than $13M donated to charities and nonprofits in name of House, Senate members

Oct 19, 08 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - New congressional ethics rules are showing the public for the first time how much money lobbyists and companies are donating to charities and nonprofits to woo lawmakers, the New York Times reports. Companies and interest groups donated more than $13 million to such groups associated with more than 200 House... More »

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ethics • Congress • John Murtha • Tom DeLay • charity • Charles Rangel • lobbyists • James Clyburn

investigation

Pro-Democracy Group Links Lobbyists, McCain

Nonprofit's workings clash with maverick image

Jul 28, 08 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The workings of a nonprofit democracy-promotion group John McCain has chaired for 15 years are “in many ways at odds with the political outsider image that has become a touchstone of the McCain campaign,” the New York Times reports. The International Republican Institute is a “something of... More »

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John McCain • lobbyists • International Republican Institute • political favoritism • Charlie Black

OPINION

 McCain Needs
 Clinton-Style
 Rebranding 

Repub must become a fighter

Jul 21, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain desperately needs a dose of the strategy that kept Hillary Clinton competitive with Barack Obama during primary season, Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru write in the National Review. McCain should adopt a “conservative version of her occasional theme of a ‘fighter for you’”—the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • liberals • lobbyists • blue-collar vote

Hedge Funds Turn Bullish
on Lobbying

As Congress ponders new taxes, regulations, industry opens wallet

Jul 8, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The hedge-fund industry is stepping up its lobbying efforts, Politico reports, having belatedly realized how tempting a target it presents to cash-strapped politicians. Facing attacks from both sides of the aisle for their tax-free offshore accounts and lightly taxed incomes, hedge funds upped lobbying spending to $1.9 million last... More »

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lobbying • lobbyists • tax breaks • hedge funds

Opinion

McCain Adviser Black Has Friends in Low Places

Black's young-conservatives comrades have sleazy record

Jul 2, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Senior campaign adviser Charlie Black drew fire recently when he suggested that a terror attack would help John McCain, but maybe we shouldn’t have been so surprised. Black’s past is littered with questionable associations, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal, with comrades from a 1970s young-conservatives... More »

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John McCain • lobbyists • McCain 2008 • Charlie Black • National Conservative Political Action Committee • Black, Manafort & Stone

Democrats Balk at Obama's Donation Ban

Lower-level candidates need the cash; policy offends lobbyists

Jun 10, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama won't accept contributions from lobbyists and PACs, but the rest of his party is unlikely to follow suit, reports Politico. Democratic lobbyists and fundraisers are outraged that the donations they secure are automatically considered suspect, while Senate and House candidates simply need the cash to compete. "You... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • politics • lobbyists

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