That lobbyists are influencing Super Committee members is a “dog bites man” story. Corporate lobbyists are eager to earn their... View Article
Continue readingGroups Call for Super Committee Members to Make Avenues of Influence Transparent
The drumbeat continues for the twelve members of the Committee on Deficit Reduction to step up and match their newly... View Article
Continue readingBipartisan Bill Would Expose Efforts to Influence Super Committee
Representatives Loebsack (D-IA), Quigley (D-IL) and Renacci (R-OH) introduced the Deficit Committee Transparency Act today, an important bill that would... View Article
Continue readingCount Transparency and the Chamber of Secrets*
“While once upon a time disclosure reports sat in file cabinets at the Federal Election Commission or in the state... View Article
Continue readingWhile the Public is Shut Out, Former Members Lobby on Debt Ceiling with Abandon
Yesterday it was reported that a former Member of Congress, Ernest Istook, was seen on the House floor asking his... View Article
Continue readingPity the Poor Lobbyists
The Hill’s Congress Blog last week featured an item by Howard Marlowe, president of the American League of Lobbyists, in... View Article
Continue readingPreempting Sunlight
House Republicans, and more than a few Democrats, have taken a series of votes to kill a proposed executive order... View Article
Continue readingDemocrats opposing contractor disclosure backed by corporate donors
Last Friday, the House passed a measure that aims to block any executive order regarding disclosure of political donations. Eighteen... View Article
Continue readingBill Shines a Light on Corporate Political Spending
Today five Senators (Menendez, Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown and Lautenberg) and Representative Capuano, along with more than forty of his... View Article
Continue readingSunlight weekly Round-up: Of Tax breaks and Transparency
In an interview with Newsweek, former U.S. President, Bill Clinton suggested lowering corporate tax rates as one of the ways... View Article
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