Friday night brings word that the White House has made a number of changes to rules on stimulus lobbying. First, we will expand the restriction on oral communications to cover all persons, not just federally registered lobbyists. For the first … Continue reading
President Obama announced his intent to nominate one of his fundraisers and bundlers to be Ambassador to the Court of Saint James’s, according to this CNN report.
The White House announced a cybersecurity initiative. In doing so, President Obama announced: What isn’t widely known is that during the general election hackers managed to penetrate our computer systems. To all of you who donated to our campaign, I … Continue reading
The Hill reports that the SEIU ran an ad in a Louisiana newspaper referring to Sen. Vitter. The ad and the crossfire could be the beginning of a big campaign by SEIU to take him out in 2010. On May … Continue reading
Reports are that the U.S. government will own 72.5% of General Motors. The company’s political action committee (PAC) has about $400,000 cash on hand and it looks like the PAC hasn’t contributed to any federal candidates this year. In other … Continue reading