By
Amanda Becker
| May 25, 2012, 2:28 p.m.
The Senate Ethics Committee today publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for having improper contact with an aide to former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) during the one-year period after he left the Senate.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| May 24, 2012, 4:19 p.m.
Amid speculation that Senate Democrats will bring up a campaign finance disclosure bill as early as June, the League of Women Voters has launched a $90,000 radio ad campaign calling on four GOP Senators to “tell us you support full disclosure.”
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| May 24, 2012, Midnight
The multibillion-dollar trading losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co. have thrust Wall Street banks into a defensive crouch on K Street, prompting financial services lobbyists to clam up, regroup and, in some cases, suspend lobbying altogether.
By
Janie Lorber, Kate Ackley
| May 23, 2012, Midnight
In an effort to encourage small businesses to get on Facebook, the newly public social network is giving away up to $10 million in free advertising.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| May 22, 2012, 11:52 a.m.
As it gears up for an ambitious get-out-the-vote effort this year, the AFL-CIO is expanding its legal team with the addition of Craig Becker as co-general counsel.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 22, 2012, Midnight
While Senators in recent days fought a public battle over an Iran sanctions bill, lawyers and lobbyists for victims of terrorist attacks were quietly jockeying over a few words in section 503 of the legislation.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| May 21, 2012, Midnight
With the stroke of a pen, a federal appeals court ruling has drastically altered the calculus for nonprofits and trade groups poised to spend millions of dollars in this election, from well-funded partisan players to grass-roots groups on the left and right.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| May 16, 2012, Midnight
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has won another victory in his legal battle to force the Federal Election Commission to write stricter disclosure rules for certain types of political ads.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 15, 2012, Midnight
Groups lobbying for same-sex marriage may not receive the infusion of cash President Barack Obama’s campaign took in after he announced support for their cause. But gay-rights advocates say the commander in chief built needed momentum for their cause ahead of initiatives in up to four states this fall.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 14, 2012, Midnight
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on pace to spend upward of $50 million on voter mobilization this campaign cycle, has launched a YouTube advertising campaign targeting residents of seven Congressional districts. More ads in other districts are likely on the horizon.
By
Janie Lorber
| May 10, 2012, Midnight
The private equity industry isn’t ready to let a nasty presidential campaign detract from next year’s legislative wish list.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 9, 2012, 2:24 p.m.
A pair of Congressional candidates will get a boost Thursday from a network of former aides to the late-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.).
By
Kate Ackley
| May 9, 2012, 12:11 p.m.
Pat Bousliman, a longtime Senate Finance Committee staff member, has joined the Democratic lobby shop of Elmendorf Ryan.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 9, 2012, Midnight
Sen. Dick Lugar’s K Street ties run deep and include a network of loyal former aides and family members. But the help of his downtown supporters wasn’t enough to push the Indiana Republican to victory Tuesday.
By
Janie Lorber, Kate Ackley
| May 8, 2012, Midnight
Google Inc.’s first K Street hire was a fledgling shop whose two lobbyists had been the subject of a mass email alleging they had an extramarital affair. That was nine years ago.
David Sampson and Moe Veissi
| May 8, 2012, Midnight
When Gerald Ford took the presidential oath of office after Richard Nixon’s resignation in August 1974, he reminded Congress and the American people that “even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people’s urgent needs.”
By
Kate Ackley
| May 7, 2012, Midnight
DLA Piper hosted an elegant two-course breakfast briefing at the Willard InterContinental last week. The audience was a collection of clients, Hill aides, lawyers, diplomats and reporters. The fare was unabashedly political. And that was the point.
By
Janie Lorber
| May 4, 2012, 1:32 p.m.
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the 2010 health care law, K Street stands to benefit.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 1, 2012, 12:03 a.m.
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi is back in business on K Street, launching Laszlo Strategies this week.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| April 30, 2012, Midnight
When Democratic strategist Bill Burton went looking for a partner to help his super PAC launch a $1 million ad campaign announced last week, he had more than one reason to knock on the door of the League of Conservation Voters.
