According to Jeff Birnbaum at the Washington Post, the new lobbying disclosure forms, intended to shine a light on lobbyist... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Crunch Time for K Street
Lobbyists strike at Congress while the legislation is hot; the housing industry is pumping money into congressional coffers; Don Young... View Article
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This year’s presidential election started in January 2007 and continues apace with the field of over a dozen in the... View Article
Continue readingSmall Disclosure Win
In the wake of the Countrywide/Dodd/Conrad scandal, the six members of the Senate Ethics Committee are cosponsoring an amendment to... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: NYC2DC
Back from PDF Conference in NYC; how is Tom Ridge like Adil Hoxha?; more mortgage disclosures; congressional ethics office empty;... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Abram-Offed
How Alan Stayman got Abram-offed from his gig at State; Dodd and Conrad continue beating over Countrywide loans; jailing Arizona;... View Article
Continue readingDon Young’s A-Team
Murdock, Hannibal, Face, and B.A. Baracus? Not that A-Team. Josh Marshall got his hands on the “Intern’s Survival Guide” for... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Will You Be My Sponsor?
The Pfizer-General Motors-Northwest Airlines-United-Coors Democratic and Republican conventions are looking for more sponsors; Dodd doesn’t understand acronyms; sometimes it’s not... View Article
Continue readingLoan Investigation Underway
Congressional Quarterly reports that the Senate Ethics Committee is looking into the preferential loan treatment that Sens. Chris Dodd and... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Disclosure Is Next To Cleanliness
Wealth disparity in Congress as lawmakers disclosure their finances; KBR can’t decide if it’s “Support the Troops” or “All for... View Article
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