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Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts
Sunday, November 19, 2023

From the Washington Post: From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees

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Is this market failure?  Suppliers seem to inflate prices by adding on various fees. I think we've all dealt with this. Uneven informati...
Monday, March 21, 2022

From Open Secrets: Federal and state lobbying spending soared to $10 billion during the 2020 election cycle, but state lobbying disclosure remains limited

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- Click here for the article .  Big dollar lobbying efforts are not limited to the federal level. Federal lobbying spending broke $3.7 billi...
Monday, November 7, 2016

From ProPublica: Clay Pigeons: How Lobbyists Secretly Woo Top Election Officials - Secretaries of state, who oversee ballot measures on topics from gun control to the minimum wage, are increasingly courted by interest groups and industries with billions of dollars at stake.

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If elections are indeed rigged, this might be why. - Click here for the article . Big-money corporate lobbying has reached into one of the...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

From the Fiscal Times: How Big Pharma Lobbyists Keep Medicare Drug Prices High

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For our look at interest groups and iron triangles. - Click here for the article . For nearly a decade, veteran Democratic Rep. Peter Wel...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

From 538: Nearly All Of Silicon Valley’s Political Dollars Are Going To Hillary Clinton

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Most went to Obama in 08 and 12 also. In return they got one of their own put in charge of the FCC. - Click here for the article . . . . w...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

From the New York Times: Former House Speaker John Boehner Joins Washington Law Firm

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For our look at lobbying and the revolving door. - Click here for the article . John A. Boehner , the former speaker of the House who left...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Governing: Gov2Gov: The Lobbying That Falls Under the Radar Cities, counties and states put a lot of effort -- and money -- into lobbying other levels of government.

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For our look at both local governments and lobbying. - Click here for the article . Data reported by the Center for Responsive Politics i...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

From Vox: Big Marijuana is coming — and even legalization supporters are worried

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This story applies to 2305 - since it touches on the influence of interest groups on both the legislative and administrative process - and ...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Introducing: Gephardt Government Affairs

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In class - and in the class notes - I mentioned that ex-members of Congress can cash in after they leave office and offer their services to ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

From the Intercept: Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure

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Not everyone is happy to see Boehner go: - Click here for the article . House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation on Friday was ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Bracewell & Guiliani and the Revolving Door

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While clicking around to find info for the story below I stumbled across lists of people that have worked - or consulted - with Bracewell ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

From Vox: Corporations now spend more lobbying Congress than taxpayers spend funding Congress

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Interesting detail: - Click here for the story . Well, this isn't good : Corporations now spend about $2.6 billion a year on repor...
Friday, April 10, 2015

The fight over local control continues

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In the news today: The Texas Tribune:  Local Government, School Lobbying in Ethics Crosshairs . Thursday unleashed a torrent of criticism ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

From Pro-Publica: TurboTax Maker Linked to ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing

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Just in time for tax day, a story that points out how interests groups can try to influence public opinion. - Click here for the full stor...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

The flip side of the McCutheon decision

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Its not just that lobbyists and the wealthy can contribute more, its that incumbents know they can and will now demand more funding from the...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Are revolving door lobbyists more likely to come from the federal bureaucracy and the White House, or from Capitol Hill?

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This a question addressed by a couple Monkey Cage contributors that was spurred by a comment by Nancy Pelosi in a recent appearance on the ...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Its more hip for politicians to solicit political contributions from high tech than big oil or trial lawyers

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So says this article in Politico . Soliciting money from Silicon Valley is different than doing so from others: It’s not just contribution...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The emerging field of political intelligence - the fastest growing field you've never heard of

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The Dish had a recent post telling how to profit from boring subcommittee meetings . Hire yourself out to large businesses who want quick ...

From the Washington Post: Capital gains: Spending on contracts and lobbying propels a wave of new wealth in D .C.

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For our look at money in politics available to people who know the inside game : The avalanche of cash that made Washington rich in the la...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

AIPAC

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I'll throw occasional posts out highlighting some of the stronger interest groups in politics right now - those that are in the best pos...