Today’s Graduate School of Political Management event, “Special Interests and Public Policy: The Right to Petition and Restrictions on Lobbying,” featured interesting comments from Norm Eisen (pictured right), Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law at GWU, and a host of others, including Howard Paster, Al Hunt, […]
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Are Lobbying Restrictions Constitutional?
This morning’s event at The George Washington University will discuss constitutional issues regarding lobbying restrictions, among other topics. As presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain both focused a significant amount of attention on the role of lobbyists and what they – the candidates – felt was their corrupting influence on the policy making process. […]
Real Pork Lobbyists This Time
The National Pork Producers Council and its lobbyists are the topic of this Post report. For going on two weeks, the Washington professionals who represent the nation’s 67,000 pork producers have been in a mad dash to, as President Obama once said, put lipstick on this pig.