The Times reports that the Federal Reserve is in an unprecedented position in this administration. Since March, when the Fed stepped in to fill the lending vacuum left by banks and Wall Street firms, officials have been dragged into murky battles over the creditworthiness of narrow-bore industries like motor homes, rental cars, snowmobiles, recreational boats […]
Category: Executive Branch
Stimulus Lobbying Reports
The latest issue of Covington & Burling’s Political Law Update includes information of note to all who are following developments on the executive branch rules for stimulus-related lobbying disclosure. Page 4, for example, has a useful listing of links to websites at Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture with items of interest. Other helpful links are included in […]
Waiver Transparency
Sen. Grassley is interested in seeing the ethics policy waivers granted by the Obama administration, according to this report. The White House has acknowledged issuing at least four waivers to the ethics order and one letter of recusal clearing the way for Mark Patterson, formerly a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, to become Treasury Secretary Timothy […]