This informative piece at onPhilanthropy provides background and guidance on HLOGA’s requirements for certain charitable groups. By now, you have almost certainly heard that the ethics bill passed by Congress in 2007 – the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (“HLOGA”) – placed new restrictions on lobbyists and required more reporting and disclosure from the […]
Month: November 2008
Transition Cash “Quandary”
The transition’s “cash quandary” is the topic of this WSJ report. One challenge is figuring out how to raise the millions of dollars needed without violating Mr. Obama’s campaign rhetoric against lobbyists and special interests. Federal rules allow Mr. Obama to use $9.74 million in taxpayer money to pay for the costs of operating a […]
What’s Good for Minnesota is Good for Oklahoma
Oklahoma is considering limitations on lobbyists’ gifts to lawmakers, similar to rules in Minnesota. A proposed rule to ban lobbyists in Oklahoma from buying dinners, expensive gifts or tickets to sporting events is similar to a measure that has worked well the past 14 years in Minnesota, an official from that state said.