While Congress and the Department of Justice are questioning the T-Mobile and AT&T merger, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent company has been working on a behind the scene lobbying campaign, contacting key opponents to the deal in the last few months, reports filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act show.
Deutsche Telekom, looking to sell T-Mobile to AT&T creating a mammoth corporation making up a large chunk of the U.S. wireless market, has spent $4.3 million in the last six months to lobby and maintain a staff in the U.S., six monthly reports filed with ...
Continue readingTransCanada spends millions lobbying federal government, several key states
The Canadian oil sands, one of the most carbon-intensive fuel sources in the world, is spurring a flurry of global lobbying activity, from encouraging President Obama to approve an extension to a transnational pipeline pressuring Europe to ease its tax on the sands-produced oil.
TransCanada Lobbying in Keystone XL States
In 2008, the State Department sanctioned an environmental review to extend the Keystone pipeline, which runs from Alberta, Canada, through the Dakotas and south to Oklahoma, with a spur reaching Illinois. The extension, termed Keystone XL, would cut across Montana and reach Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, from where the ...
Continue readingDigging Into the Relationships in Sunlight’s Twitter Lobbyist List
On Wednesday Sunlight released a list of lobbyists tweeting online, allowing for collective insight into their world; who they follow;... View Article
Continue readingFor Clues About Who They’re Meeting, Check Lobbyists Tweeting
Companies, politicians, celebrities and journalists have all taken to Twitter to promote their brands. But based on a search of Twitter’s API for the names... View Article
Continue readingTop lobbyist hones his craft on Twitter
Lobbying may be lagging behind other industries in its use of Twitter, as lobbyists favor more confidential communications, but that... View Article
Continue reading15 Minutes With Jack Abramoff
Yesterday, the TV News-Magazine 60 Minutes aired an interview with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. It’s worth watching in its entirety,... View Article
Continue readingThe News Without Transparency: Members of Debt Panel Have Ties to Lobbyists
The News Without Transparency: Members of Debt Panel Have Ties to Lobbyists The congressional debt committee, commonly referred to as... View Article
Continue readingSuper committee related issues feature in hundreds of lobbying reports
K Street firms got little respite this past quarter, between lobbying on the debt ceiling early in the summer and then quickly shifting their focus to the "super committee," recently released lobbying reports show.
A little more than 200 registrants listed either "Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction" — the official name of the powerful budget cutting panel — or "super committee" on lobbying disclosures filed with the Senate Office of Public Records. The filings were released on Thursday, Oct. 20. The third quarter reports also show some overlap between the organizations that listed both the debt ceiling and the super committee ...
The News Without Transparency: A Congresswoman’s Cause is Often Her Husband’s Gain
The News Without Transparency: A Congresswoman’s Cause is Often Her Husband’s Gain Last month the New York Times looked into whether... View Article
Continue readingGaddafi’s long history of lobbying comes to an end
Libyan Dictator Moammar Gaddafi was killed today in his hometown of Sirte, a showman to the end, “brandishing a golden pistol.” Lobbying, in many ways, was part of his political arsenal that boosted Gaddafi’s international prowess, helped protect him from additional sanctions and promoted the business interests of the Libyan ruling elite and U.S. business. We’ve covered several of these instances in the past. Here’s a look at a few:
Paul Blumenthal reported, on the Monitor Group, an international firm that contracted with the Libyan dictator, which should have filled under the Foreign Agent Registrant Act ...
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