Category: LDA

House votes to amend Lobbying Disclosure Act

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 1, 2010
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The House passed H.R. 5609 today. I tweeted about this early in the a.m. as did the Center for Competitive Politics’ Sean Parnell (who had more context). The bill started out amending the Federal Election Campaign Act, but was amended to instead amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The text isn’t available as of the time […]

The state of lobbying examined

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 1, 2010
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A new Center for Responsive Politics report examines the state of lobbying in light of the the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA) and President Obama’s stance on lobbyist-related issues. The Huffington Post’s LobbyBlog reports on the report here.

Caribou Coffee corruption?

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 29, 2010
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The Sunlight Foundation Blog follows up on a report that lobbyists are meeting with administration officials in Caribou Coffee across from the White House. This could have been a good viral marketing effort by Caribou Coffee.