CQ reports on the nomination of John Sullivan to the Federal Election Commission here.
Day: May 26, 2009
Florida Lobbying
What’s the state of the lobbying business in Florida? According to this report, business is good. The Capitol lobbying corps earned up to $45 million from January through March to influence the Legislature. That’s essentially the same amount that all 2,000 state lobbyists made in the same period in 2008, when Florida wasn’t in a […]
Members of Parliament: Operating within a Legal System?
Anne Applebaum publishes her take on the controversy in Britain surrounding expenses of Members of Parliament. There is a degree of unfairness about this scandal. With the exception of a handful of real cheaters and tax-dodgers, most politicians were operating within a legal system.