Street Talk: Lobbying Is Still a Game Dominated by the Young

• By T.R. Goldman
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 9, 2009, Midnight

Tom Daschle pulled down a cool $2 million lobbying for Alston & Bird.
True, he didn’t technically “lobby” because he didn’t fit the Lobbying Disclosure Act’s exacting criteria. But let’s be real: Lobbying is any effort to influence public policy — it doesn’t matter whether you can avoid registration because you are paid tens of thousands of dollars to tell a client who to lobby and how, but make no more than one lobbying “contact” on the client’s behalf.