Transforming K Street simply won’t happen any time soon. That’s because a federal transportation selection panel is favoring other transportation projects, according to this Post report. The Washington region was awarded almost $59 million in federal stimulus money to begin building a vast network to speed bus traffic, but a request for $76 million more […]
Day: February 18, 2010
Court says Illinois lobbyist fee too high
Here’s an ACLU press release about the group’s victory in a lawsuit challenging Illinois’ $1,000 lobbyist registration fee. In her decision, Judge Gottschall found that the State of Illinois simply could not justify the new dramatically increased fees. Currently, nine states and the federal government charge no fee for a lobbyist to register. Fourteen additional […]
What’s missing from the Schumer-Van Hollen framework
Missing from the Schumer-Van Hollen frawework is a reference to legislation Sen. Schumer (and then-Sen. Obama) proposed in the last session of Congress in S. 3123 (“Closing the Foreign Lobbying Loophole Act”) involving amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act. I posted about the bill in June 2008. A news report about the proposal is […]