The Post runs the latest numbers on health care lobbying efforts. The geared-down lobbying is but one example of how the new year – especially Republican Scott Brown’s Jan. 19 upset win for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat – has reshaped the health care battle, which saw half a billion dollars spent on […]
Day: February 3, 2010
Lobbying and political technology; “Special Interest 3.0”
Robert Wright describes a “balkanized media landscape and activist group that springs from it” in this Times piece today. If we lengthened legislative terms and then capped the number of terms, more people in Congress could spend more time worrying about something other than getting re-elected next year, and this could leave them productively indifferent […]
Senate Hearing reactions
The Times has an AP report on yesterday’s Senate hearings on Citizens United. There’s no political risk in sitting on the legislation. Voters may feel big donors have too much influence, but that doesn’t mean they want government money given to candidates, either. After all, there’s already a public financing plan in place for presidential […]