Category: HLOGA

NAM v. Taylor

The complaint in NAM v. Taylor, a case challenging provisions of HLOGA, is online. NAM’s blog has other case documents.

Lobbyist-Bundled Contributions

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 20, 2008
Categories In HLOGA
1 Comment on Lobbyist-Bundled Contributions

The latest document regarding the disclosure of certain information about lobbyist-bundled contributions is the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. In this November 2007 document the Commission wrote: The Commission expects that these proposed rules will become final in early 2008, and that the new disclosure requirements will apply to reports filed three months later. Thus, the first […]

Featured as speaker, not honored as guest

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 12, 2008
Categories In HLOGA, Senate

In today’s Post, Jeffrey Birnbaum notices what he concludes is an “exception large enough to explode the entire statute.” The [Senate ethics] committee ruled that a member of Congress can be a “featured speaker” at a national convention party and not run afoul of the lobbying law. That means that a senator is barred from […]