Day: March 13, 2008

Evasive Lunch

Lobbyist employers and lobbyists face a huge number of restrictions under HLOGA.   What about non-lobbyists working for lobbyist employers?   In one House memorandum, the guidance provides: . . . The new rule prohibits gifts “from” a private entity that retains or employs lobbyists. Certainly, a gift paid for with the private entity’s funds (such as by […]

Minding Committee Finances

In 2007, the FEC released a Statement of Policy establishing a safe harbor for misreporting due to embezzlement of committee funds.  This hugely helpful policy, and its thankfully brief presentation in the Federal Register, is must-reading (or re-reading, I suspect) in today’s times.