Roll Call reports on some lobbyist-bundled contribution reports filed recently. According to Federal Election Commission reports filed after Thursday’s deadline, Rangel received roughly $125,000 in combined campaign contributions from the McPherson Group’s John Kelly, New York-based Constantinople & Vallone Consulting and trade group Employee-Owned S Corporations of America.
Month: October 2009
The Chamber’s lobbying bill
Roll Call reports on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s $34.7 million in lobbying spending.
Ring trial redux
Kevin Ring will be tried again, according to this Roll Call article. When former House aide-turned-lobbyist Kevin Ring returns to court for a new trial on public corruption charges in June, a lineup of former House staffers could testify in his defense — despite previously invoking their Fifth Amendment rights — as the statute of […]