Category: Executive Branch

Thursday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 17, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Executive Branch, FEC, LDA, New York City

TODAY AT THE FEC. The agenda for today’s Federal Election Commission meeting is online here. INTERNET COMPANIES LOBBY. Roll Call. “Zynga — a San Francisco-based social network game developer — LinkedIn, Mozilla and Twitter waded into a Washington policy debate on Tuesday for perhaps the first time as part of a coalition of Internet companies […]

Wednesday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 16, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Courts & Cases, Executive Branch, FEC, House, Maryland, Nevada, Senate

SOLYNDRA ELECTION CONNECTION. The Hill. “Portions of emails released by House Republicans suggest that Obama administration officials pressed the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra to delay announcing pending layoffs until after the 2010 midterm elections.” O’DONNELL PLEA TOO HARSH. Story here. “A federal judge in Los Angeles rejected a plea agreement between prosecutors and prominent attorney […]

Tuesday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 15, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Executive Branch, FEC, House, New York City

HUNTSMAN: THANKS, DAD. The Times. “Providing perhaps a last-chance boost to the flagging presidential hopes of former Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. of Utah, an outside group that is supported by his father, a billionaire chemical executive, and other wealthy backers plans a major advertising campaign on his behalf in New Hampshire starting on Tuesday. […]