... includes tons of pork designed to buy Senate votes (the most obvious one being the fact the federal government will pay for all medicare expansion in the bill for the state of Nebraska forever). Did I ...). Tort reform is something that should have bipartisan support (it's truly a good idea), but lobbyist for attorney's are clearly influencing politicians at this time. In life, MPC was way easy. I...
... billion in campaign contributions to federal and state incumbents and challengers.... entities to lobby Congress and federal agencies, according to records aggregated...8 billion this decade to federal candidates. And the leader in...to document political donor and lobbyist contributions to policymakers." Also helpful...Hastert (R-Ill.) and Democratic Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps." (Oh...
... the negotiations, which unsurprisingly leave the Federal Reserve massively exposed to future Citi...637,492 as a full-time lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, and another top... "the full force of the federal government to ensure that the major...mean anyone "who can afford a lobbyist," says Michael Greenberger, the former head...a company permanently backstopped by the federal government?). It would also formalize ...
...collected (allowing for economies of scale) by State or Federal Government. Releasing government records with the opportunity for reuse ... be overcome through hard work. For example, both the Federal and 6 State governments operate similar lobbyist registers but they each differ in ways that make them technologically disparate. The other lobbyist registers could be combined with a dedicated team of...
... country, a result of political, social and technological shifts. Stricter federal rules have pressed states to chase down fathers and hold them .... Then he waited. III. CARNELL SMITH, an engineer-turned-lobbyist in Georgia, is the leading advocate for men like Mike. ... paternity under that law. Smith’s movement was spurred by federal welfare reform in the mid-1990s that pressured states to track...
...) found itself confronted with a different kind of lobbyist. Waters and his followers took up residence near ...in 1932, the government was so small, most federal agencies fit into two buildings (the White House... clear Murder Bay in order to build the Federal Triangle complex of office buildings, but so far... ordered Secretary of War Hurley to send in federal troops shortly before 1 PM (even before ...
... over Grayson for referring to Robertson, a lobbyist recently hired as a public relations operative (or lobbyist) for the Federal Reserve, as "a K Street whore." None of the outraged...all lobbyists whores? Well, maybe not a lobbyist for the Society for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or a lobbyist for a firm urging the beating ... that's not the kind of lobbyist Robertson has ever been. Pure and ...
...Obama Pushes Hundreds Of Lobbyists Off Federal Advisory Boards In a little-noticed...of individuals who currently are registered federal lobbyists represents a dramatic change ... to and from full-time federal government service. In furtherance of ... has been a federally-registered lobbyist within the past two years ... of lobbyists" being ejected from federal advisory panels. Not surprisingly, lobby ...
... endless period of time, the entire world sat on pins and needles and waited for various Federal, state, county, municipal and balloting authorities to pull their heads out of their collective asses and ... (Denis Leary), on election night. His counterparts at the Bush camp are flinty-eyed lobbyist Ben Ginsberg (Bob Balaban), and the somewhat sharklike Mac 'The Knife' Stipanovich (Bruce McGill), who,...
...Prosecutors focused on the $90,000 federal agents found in Jefferson's freezer....coup for lobbyists. [emphasis added] A lobbyist created the messages and supporting documents...contributed more than $1 million to federal candidates. Pear reports Genentech's PAC...members of Congress place in the federal budget each year sufficient billions ... dollars to pay for every federal and statewide election in the ...
