Category: Senate

Lobbying disclosure from the government side?

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 11, 2010
Categories In Executive Branch, House, LDA, Senate

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s FOIA efforts to receive records detailing the telecoms’ campaign for legal immunity (under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008) implicates government-side disclosure of lobbying. The EFF’s release is here and it contains all of the relevant links, including a Feb. 9, 2010 9th Circuit opinion. This case concerns the discussions between […]

Today’s Senate hearing on Citizens United (with photos)

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 2, 2010
Categories In FEC, Senate

Below are a few photos I took today at the Senate Rules Committee hearing on Citizens United. CQPolitics covers the hearing here and it’s available for viewing online here.

Senate Ethics activity for 2009

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 29, 2010
Categories In Senate

The Senate Ethics Committee released a report on its 2009 activity today. The number of matters resulting in disciplinary sanction: zero.