The Times looks at fundraising and financial regulatory reform here. Executives and political action committees from Wall Street banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and related financial sectors have showered Congressional candidates with more than $1.7 billion in the last decade, with much of it going to the financial committees that oversee the industry’s operations.
Month: May 2010
Wall Street reform and municipal financial advisers’ political contributions
In late 2009 I noted that the financial regulatory reform bill that the House considered includes a measure on political contributions by municipal financial advisers (page 1443(!) of HR 4173). Did it make the Senate version‘s of financial regulatory reform (S. 3217)? The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a rulemaking the Commission initiated in […]
Today at the Grassroots Forum
Thanks to American College of Cardiology’s Molly Nichelson, Wellpoint’s Eric Lundberg, and the National Mining Association’s Corey Henry for making today’s Grassroots Forum event an informative and lively session. As promised, here are some of the sources for my short presentation on grassroots lobbying legal issues, Citizens United, and the DISCLOSE Act. Citizens United information […]