Category: FEC

Monday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 21, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, California, FEC, House, LDA

ALL FIGHTING. The American League of Lobbyists is in the news here. “The American League of Lobbyists is vowing to continue fighting what it calls attacks by the Obama administration on the lobbying profession.” FIRM GIVING. The Post. “Big law is heavily favoring President Obama in campaign contributions, pouring twice as much money into the […]

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 […]