Category: Alabama

Got Influence? Nonprofit news, a guilty plea, Vermont solicitations, and more political law links for today

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 26, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, House, IRS, Vermont

ROGERS’ NONPROFITS IN THE NEWS. Politico reports. “Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has funneled more than $236 million in federal funds since 2000 to a web of nonprofit groups he created back home in the Bluegrass State, according to a new report by an ethics watchdog group.” GUILTY […]

Launch day, Trump and the 2012 money chase, new GAO report and more political law links today

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 4, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, California, FEC, IRS, LDA, Wisconsin

DEBATES, LIST EXCHANGES, AND FUNDRAISING. Politico reports: “The Republican National Committee is proposing to sponsor a series of monthly presidential primary debates beginning in August and running through February in which the RNC would determine the format and require each participating candidate to raise money for the party at the event, according to an email […]

House ethics highlights, Canadian codes of lobbyist conduct, CFR moves and more in today’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 30, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, FEC, Foreign Laws, House, Vermont, Voting

A WELCOMING RECEPTION. From today’s Politico Playbook: “HAPPENING TODAY: ‘McGuireWoods LLP & McGuireWoods Consulting LLC [holds a 5 p.m.] welcome reception for our new Political Law Group, including partners and group co-chairs Elliot S. Berke & William J. Farah — Remarks by The Honorable Evan Bayh, Partner & Former U.S. Senator from Indiana, & Richard […]