NEWS ROUNDUP:

• The Federal Communications Commission is looking to streamline the process inventors go through when testing their products on the airwaves. (Politico)
• The Office of Management and Budget is proposing consolidating federal guidance on grants and financial assistance payments. The move is aimed at reducing paperwork and fraud. (GovExec)
• President Obama is not the first person in his line of work to create a lobbying group that seeks to influence national policy. Former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have gone down – or at least tried to travel – similar paths. (Politico)
• 2014 is on the minds of some of the biggest Republican Party donors, who are funding a group to protect incumbents and find new candidates for the upcoming U.S. Senate races. (New York Times)
• Changes to the U.S. Senate lobbying database over the weekend appear to have broken outside links to the documents, impacting watchdog groups like OpenSecrets.org. A staffer said the changes were made so documents would be available in HTML instead of PDF. (Public Integrity)
• Legislators in Missouri are looking to pass a bill that would require more advance notice of public meetings and increase the likelihood of facing penalties for violating the state’s open meetings and records law. (News Tribune)
• Legislative aides in Virginia will receive the same privacy protections under the state’s Freedom of Information Act as legislators under a new bill. (Watchdog.org)

RELEVANT BILLS INTRODUCED:

• None. 

HAPPENING TOMORROW 2/6: 

• None. 

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