Roll Call reports on K Street support for Rep. Boehner. With House Republicans poised to make major gains in November and Minority Leader John Boehner working to become the next Speaker, lobbyists are not-so-quietly cozying up to the Ohio Republican.
Month: May 2010
Social media and politics from around the web
A lot of social media and politics stories in the news. Republicans launched AmericaSpeakingOut.com to “increase dialogue between Americans and Congress.” The site apparently uses a new Microsoft platform for political efforts. YouCut is making headlines; The project is designed to let users vote on what spending projects to cut. (It’s not at www.YouCut.com, by […]
DISCLOSE Act: A Citizens United “fix” or not so much?
For all of what the DISCLOSE Act might do, does it seem to miss the “fix” the Supreme Court held in Citizens United: removing 441b’s ban on corporate independent expenditures from the books? As best as I can tell, it leaves 441b(a) untouched. (In this September 2009 post I asked what 441b would look like […]