Politico reports on President Obama’s election-year strategy here. The revamped 2010 plan focuses extensively on new reform efforts, starting with a “competitiveness” push, a call for tighter campaign finance laws and renewed attention to Obama’s open-government agenda. . . . A top administration official said that “the biggest piece of reform” will be supporting congressional […]
Category: Executive Branch
The status of the Obama administration’s lobbyist policies
The Washington Post will give the Obama administration’s “crackdown on lobbying” page one, column one treatment in tomorrow’s Sunday edition. The story is here. The success of Obama’s efforts are a subject of debate, with both sides pulling out evidence to make their case.
Lobbying disclosure from the government side?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s FOIA efforts to receive records detailing the telecoms’ campaign for legal immunity (under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008) implicates government-side disclosure of lobbying. The EFF’s release is here and it contains all of the relevant links, including a Feb. 9, 2010 9th Circuit opinion. This case concerns the discussions between […]