They were the pioneers of a high profile business. Politicians held strategy sessions with them, while the public saw them... View Article
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WHICH ISSA WILL ISSA BE TODAY? —Roll Call: “Attendees at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have... View Article
Continue readingMore Transparency for Official Expenses in the House
Yesterday, Rep. Gary Peters introduced a bill that would require reports on House Members’ expenditures to be posted on House.gov.... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency – Build a Transparency Search Engine
Google Custom Search is a simple service that lets you create your own search engine based on links that you... View Article
Continue readingThe Monitor Group and Libya, Cont’d
Mother Jones’ David Corn and Siddhartha Mahanta have an excellent piece about how The Monitor Group flacked for Libya and... View Article
Continue readingIs it better for lobbyists to be smart or well-connected?
Although our modern lives present many irreducible questions — nature vs. nurture, liberty vs. security, funny vs. good-looking — a... View Article
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REVERSE REVOLVING DOOR FOR TOP STAFFERS —CRP: “At least 130 current congressional chiefs of staff and legislative directors are former... View Article
Continue readingNew York Times on Middle Eastern Lobbying
As Paul mentioned in today’s “Sunrise,” one of the lead stories in The New York Times looks at the lobbying... View Article
Continue readingChamber of Commerce meets with CFTC chairman
Yesterday a lobbyist and executives representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has criticized the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank financial law, met with Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to discuss the issue.
Under the new law, the CFTC is given the authority to award whistleblowers 10 to 30 percent of the amount recovered when information they provide leads to an enforcement action yielding sanctions of $1 million or more. They can also file for relief if they face retaliation for their disclosures.
"Put simply, the proposed rule creates a set of ...
Continue readingMajor movement for more online transparency of Oregon’s spending
We welcome Jon Bartholomew as our guest blogger today. I first came across Jon’s work when I featured his blog... View Article
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