The House Administration Committee announced a May 6, 2010 hearing on the DISCLOSE Act introduced today. I’ve added links to both the Senate and House version of the proposed legislation to my list of links at right under “General Resources.”
Day: April 29, 2010
No new information on $111,000 North Carolina lobbying fine
A few days ago I admit I tried only for a few minutes to find more information about the eye-popping $111,000 fine apparently levied in a North Carolina case involving lobbyist disclosure. Thanks to The Charlotte Observer, I now know more about why I couldn’t find any information online. State law says the public has […]
When lobbyists are “spurned”; the Goldman Sachs case
The Times reports on the troubles facing Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs employs perhaps the country’s most well-connected stable of Washington lobbyists, and it spent $2.8 million last year to bend the ear of federal officials and lawmakers. But the pounding the investment firm has taken in recent days has left it sidelined — at least […]