Category: HLOGA

Lobbying and 501(c)(3)’s

This informative piece at onPhilanthropy provides background and guidance on HLOGA’s requirements for certain charitable groups. By now, you have almost certainly heard that the ethics bill passed by Congress in 2007 – the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (“HLOGA”) – placed new restrictions on lobbyists and required more reporting and disclosure from the […]

Freddie Lobbyists Scattered to the Wind

The recent financial crises has broken up the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae lobbying shops, according to this report. Before they were taken over by the government, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent millions of dollars a year on internal and outside lobbyists to keep politicians at bay, countering legislative efforts to regulate them more […]