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Secret Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations Draw Lobbying Interest and Public Ire 10 Jul 2012 | 07:00 pm
Negotiations on a Pacific trade deal are taking place right now in San Diego, and hundreds of representatives of business, trade association and citizen watchdog groups are present and pushing for the...
K Street Fleeing From DISCLOSE Act 9 Jul 2012 | 07:00 pm
The Supreme Court decision upholding its 2010 ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission on June 25, made it clear that corporations, labor unions and individuals can continue to pour u...
Focus Shifts from Climate to Energy 6 Jul 2012 | 12:37 am
On Monday, in the midst of a searing heat wave in the capital region, the Washington Post released the findings of a poll showing that climate change no longer leads the list of Americans’ environment...
Barclays Fallout Hits Washington 4 Jul 2012 | 04:12 am
The Barclays scandal has laid waste to the bank’s top echelons, with the resignations of the chairman, the chief executive and the chief operating officer. The repercussions have also reached the Mitt...
Will The Internet Lobby Ignite Debate Over Americans With Disabilities Act? 4 Jul 2012 | 02:12 am
In July of 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which made it illegal to discriminate against those with a disability. The law was intended to creat...
Big Beverage and the Big Apple 3 Jul 2012 | 09:17 pm
For the beverage industry, New York City is now the front line. As the New York Times notes, a new coalition called New Yorkers for Beverage Choices is fighting Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to ban...
K Street Sits Out Student Loan Rate Debate 29 Jun 2012 | 12:41 am
Student loan rates have been a hotly debated issue both on the campaign trail and in congress. While the issue is gaining the attention of politicians and the public, so far it has failed to grab the...
Health Lobby Ready to Kick In 28 Jun 2012 | 10:33 pm
Lobbying by many health insurance and health services companies has understandably declined since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Should we expect K Street’s floodgates to open...
Lobbyists join Democrats and Republicans in Debate Over Immigration and the DREAM Act 26 Jun 2012 | 11:00 am
Prospects of immigration reform — dim as they have been in past years and getting dimmer with Congress’s increasing difficulty to reach compromise on any major or seemingly minor issue — have kept mil...
CISPA Lobbying and Protecting Privacy in the age of Facebook, Twitter, Cyber Threats and Malware 26 Jun 2012 | 01:09 am
SOPA and PIPA are not the only online privacy debates on Capitol Hill. Last November, a billed aimed at protecting against cyber threats, called Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) w...
