Category: LDA

The Chamber’s lobbying bill

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 20, 2009
Categories In LDA

Roll Call reports on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s $34.7 million in lobbying spending.

The economy and lobbying for banks

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 19, 2009
Categories In LDA

Politico reports that the recession hit financial industry lobbyists. Registration records suggest that a good number of financial services lobbyists who lost work have moved on to other occupations. But there are some who are still looking for work, others who managed safe landings and at least one who did a complete loop through the […]

Financial firm lobbying spending update

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 17, 2009
Categories In LDA

How much are financial firms spending on lobbying? The Post takes a look. The pace that the financial, insurance and real estate industries spent on lobbying during the first half of the year puts them on pace to meet last year’s record spending of nearly $460 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a […]