The Washington Times reports on the increase in the number of cities and states hiring lobbyists. Lobbying expenditures by states and localities rose by 118 percent from 2001 to 2008, compared with a 101 percent increase among all sectors of the economy that lobbied Washington over the same period, according to the data. For the […]
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Frank Rich on Rabbit Ragu and Lobbyists
Frank Rich discusses lobbyists and reform in this op-ed. It’s in this context that you have to wonder what some of the Obama era’s most moneyed and White House-connected lobbyists were thinking as they preened before a Washington Post reporter recently for two lengthy articles. We’re not even nine months into the new administration, yet […]
New lobbyist money tracking tools
The Sunlight Foundation and Opensecrets.org have teamed-up to launch a lobbyist information package using new data. The site has a new video introducing the effort with a focus on Sen. Max Baucus. In many ways it boils down to this: information regarding who is meeting with whom, who is receiving money from whom – who […]