Category: Montana

Good morning, here are today’s political law links (2/19/13)

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 19, 2013
Categories In A.M. Report, California, FEC, House, Montana, Nebraska, Senate

BENEFITS TRUST AND WALGREENS REACH AGREEMENT ON POLITICAL DISCLOSURE. HLS Forum on Corp. Governance and Financial Reg. “The UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust (Trust) and leading drugstore chain Walgreen Co. (Walgreens) recently announced an agreement to a multi-year collaboration in which the company would develop a best practice policy approach to corporate political spending and […]

Political law links for Thurs., 2/14/13

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 14, 2013
Categories In A.M. Report, Arizona, FARA, FEC, Georgia, House, Iowa, IRS, Montana

IRAQ HIRES. Politico. “The government of Iraq is in the final stages of inking a contract with the Podesta Group as its first Washington lobbying firm, POLITICO has learned.” LESSIG WRITES. CPI. “Harvard University law professor Lawrence Lessig and his campaign finance reform organization, Rootstrikers, are today calling on Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub […]

MT CFR bill news and other political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 30, 2013
Categories In A.M. Report, Georgia, HLOGA, LDA, Montana, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont

RING CASE TAKEAWAYS. PoliticalLawBriefing.com. “Now facing 20 months in jail – starting his sentence after Abramoff ended his – what does Ring’s case teach us?” I’m sure the case generated a lot of somber memos around town. NEW LIMITS. Roll Call. “Individual donors can now contribute up to $2,600 to a candidate in both the […]