Month: June 2009

The Burris Investigation

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 18, 2009
Categories In Senate

The controversy continues surrounding how President Obama’s Senate seat was filled.

Update on Firing of Gerald Walpin

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 18, 2009
Categories In Executive Branch

The Times discusses President Obama’s firing of Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service Gerald Walpin. “My firing came after we had issued these two very substantial reports,” Mr. Walpin said in an interview. He said the board of the service corporation, whose chairman is Alan Solomont, a major Democratic fund-raiser, was […]

Lobbying Guidance, Revised and Clarified

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 17, 2009
Categories In HLOGA, LDA

New guidance has been released explaining the conditions for lobbyist terminations. A registrant may remove a lobbyist only when (i) that individual’s lobbying activities on behalf of that client did not constitute at the end of the current quarter, and are not reasonably expected in the upcoming quarter to constitute, 20 percent of the time […]