Category: LDA

The Times connects lobbying efforts and the $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers. Realtors mobilized their 1.2 million members across the country to write and call their representatives and senators to urge extension of the credit, warning that failure to do so could cause this year’s housing market uptick to grind to a […]

Akin Gump’s Joel Jankowsky wrote this piece in The WSJ on the Obama administraton’s treatment of lobbyists and donors. The White House has repeatedly claimed that it wants “to change the way business is done in Washington.” If the Obama administration is serious about this goal, it should apply the same rules to those who […]

Politico reports on developments in the controversy surrounding a coal industry’s lobbying efforts. A coal industry association waited until several weeks after a major House vote on climate legislation to let lawmakers know that letters sent to them opposing the bill were fraudulent, according to a congressional investigation.