Good morning, here are today’s political law links (Thurs., 7/19)

FINANCIAL REFORM LOBBYING.  Roll Call.  “As the Dodd-Frank financial reform law nears its two-year anniversary Saturday, one of the last big lobbying fights over the landmark measure is unfolding over underwriting standards.”

LOST DONORS?  Politico.  “Democrats have spent months praying for the liberal answer to Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers.”

BARCLAYS ON THE HILL.  Story here.  “Officials from Barclays, the British bank at the center of the Libor interest rate manipulation scandal, will head to Capitol Hill next week to give a private briefing to the House Financial Services Committee.”

AD RETURNS.  Story here.  “Mitt Romney’s campaign has quietly reposted a controversial Web ad that uses audio of President Barack Obama singing a few bars of an Al Green classic two days after YouTube took down the spot over copyright claims.”

LONDON FUNDRAISING.  The Post.  “U.S. election law allows candidates to raise money from U.S. citizens overseas, and presidential hopefuls have long sought donations from them.”

CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS AND 12.  Story here.  “Mitt Romney argued in an interview Wednesday that the reason he is being bludgeoned in the ad wars is because campaign finance laws are effectively tying one hand behind his back.”

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM AND COORDINATION.  National Journal.  “Campaign finance law is yet another debate in which the two parties are miles apart. But there’s surprising bipartisan agreement on coordination. The drivers of the debate on Capitol Hill believe coordination between campaigns and super PACs shouldn’t be allowed, but that coordination with party committees only makes sense.”

LOBBYIST BOARD MEMBER LEAVES GROUP.  Story here.  “A member of New York’s board that regulates lobbyists has resigned from a group that lobbies the state to avoid ‘even the appearance of impropriety,’ although the board’s chairwoman continues a similar role.”

HAVE A GREAT DAY.  The next set of links will be prepared on Monday, July 23, 2012.

Good morning, here are political law links for Wed., 7/18

LATEST ELECTION LAW NEWS. Wiley Rein’s Election Law News for July 2012 is available here.

DISCLOSE DEAD. Story here. “Senate Democrats’ second attempt in less than 24 hours to advance the campaign finance bill failed Tuesday — even after at least 16 senators held the floor for six hours Monday night in support of the measure.”

FUTILE QUEST.  Bloomberg.  “Whitehouse’s bill had almost zero chance of passing, falling to a 51-44 filibuster vote by Senate Republicans on Monday. Some of those Senators, notably Arizona Republican John McCain, had joined Democrats in passing a similar bill 12 years ago by a huge margin.  But that did not stop Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) from bringing the bill up for another vote—and a second defeat, 53-45, on Tuesday afternoon. Reid’s act of political theater was intended to fire up voters who believe Republicans are allowing secret special interest money to co-opt the political process.”

BRINKS TRUCK. The latest from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is online here. “The loopholes in these disclosure laws are big enough to accommodate an armored Brinks truck full of campaign cash. Just like a real Brinks truck, voters can’t see through the truck to tell exactly how much money is in play.”

COPYRIGHTS AND CAMPAIGNS.  Politico.  “A day after forcing YouTube to pull a Mitt Romney campaign ad featuring a snippet of Barack Obama singing Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together,’ a major music publisher is doing likewise with videos of the president’s crooning.”

ANTI-ALEC TACTICS SPOTLIGHTED. WFB. “A host of progressive organizations have led an intense campaign to destroy the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for more than a year, not only through legal challenges but also through public shaming campaigns against corporations and state legislators connected to the group.”

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR STAY ON FCC POLITICAL FILE RULES. The NAB’s motion to stay the new FCC political file rule is online here.

REP. ANDREWS PROBE. The Hill. “The chairman of the Camden County Republican Party in New Jersey asked the Ethics Committee and the OCE to investigate Roberts last November, following a series of articles that appeared in the Newark Star Ledger.”

OCE AND REP. GRIMM. Story here. “The independent Office of Congressional Ethics has voted unanimously to recommend the dismissal of an investigation into Rep. Michael Grimm’s fundraising, sources familiar with the investigation said.”

HOUSE ETHICS HISTORY.  Story here.  “The House Ethics Committee has not officially punished the vast majority of lawmakers it has investigated as a result of referrals from an independent ethics panel.”

HAVE A GREAT DAY.

Tuesday’s political law links (7/17)

DISCLOSE ACT UPDATE. Story here. “Senate Republicans blocked Democratic-backed legislation requiring organizations pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into campaign ads to disclose their top donors and the amounts they spend.”

DISCLOSE ACT PLANS.  The Hill.  “Senators are scheduled to hold a procedural vote on the bill at 3 p.m. — technically, a motion to limit debate on a motion to proceed to the bill. That vote will follow Tuesday morning debate on the bill, after a long debate Monday night for Democrats.”

SELF-FUNDERS RISE.  Story here.  “Self-funding candidates’ business backgrounds are often an asset,  but because the candidates are often untested campaigners, they sometimes make mistakes more seasoned politicians would avoid, another national GOP strategist said.”

COPYRIGHTS AND CAMPAIGNS. Here. “Mitt Romney’s new web video, featuring audio of President Obama singing a few lines from Al Green’s, ‘Let’s Stay Together,’ has been pulled down from YouTube via a copyright claim of BMG Rights Management.”

OVERSEAS FUNDRAISING. Story here. “The Obama reelection campaign’s decision to globalize its fundraising activities is drawing the same sort of intense criticism from the right as the president’s glitzy domestic money-raising efforts featuring Hollywood celebrities.”

CHEVRON CASE IN THE NEWS.  Roll Call.  “The dispute over alleged pollution in the Amazon rainforest has swept up two of Washington’s biggest lobbying practices: Patton Boggs and Ogilvy Government Relations.”

MASSA PAYMENTS.  Story here.  “Former Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) campaign is still paying his wife almost $1,300 per month, more than two years after he resigned from office.”

SENTENCING IN AL CASINO CASE. Story here. ” A federal judge has sentenced three men who pleaded guilty in an Alabama Statehouse bribery scheme to several years in federal prison.”

HAVE A GREAT DAY.