Day: September 28, 2009

Recovery.gov Reloaded

Recovery.gov has been redesigned. An article about the new site is here.

Campaign Finance: Add Generational Warfare to the Mix

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date September 28, 2009
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases
1 Comment on Campaign Finance: Add Generational Warfare to the Mix

The Brennan Center for Justice’s Nate Frentz discusses Citizens United in Salon. The question is, Will younger voters, or any other economically disadvantaged group, be able to influence government to address these issues if the ability of corporations and labor unions to influence politics is made even stronger? Will the candidates with our interests in […]

Lobbying Disclosure Act Update: New LD-1 and LD-2 Code for Tariff Work

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date September 28, 2009
Categories In LDA

Last week the Office of the Clerk announced a new general issue code category, “TAR – Tariff (Miscellaneous Tariff Bills).” Filers should use this general issue area code in the same way as other general issue area codes. For example, filers should use the issue code TAR to report lobbying activity related to tariff issues […]