Check out which lobbyists are supporting which GOP candidates in the 2012 presidential election.
Patton Boggs topped the list in Roll Call's look at the top 25 lobby shops based on revenue.
Democratic super PAC organizers are putting a brave face on recent disclosures that show GOP-friendly super PACs have outraised them by more than 3-to-1.
Under a banner of “Standing Up to Corporate Power” at Public Citizen’s Dupont headquarters, the reinvented Jack Abramoff offered his ideas for how to take corruption out of Congress and K Street.
Senate Democrats today voiced outrage over recent public disclosures showing tens of millions in corporate donations to largely GOP-friendly super PACs and announced plans for a task force, hearings and legislation to rein in unrestricted campaign money.
On the cusp of Saturday’s GOP primary in Nevada, the trade association for pharmacy benefit managers has begun airing ads in the state trying to tout themselves to the candidates, their operatives and the reporters covering them.
The National Association of Home Builders is planning to lay off 18 employees, dealing another blow to the industry’s reputation in Washington, D.C., Roll Call has learned.
Sen. Rob Portman said today that he hopes to introduce a bipartisan bill to cut the corporate tax rate “early in this year.”
Super PACs may be sexy, but conventional political action committees are still the go-to campaign contribution vehicle for corporations and trade associations. And if 2011 year-end filings are any indicator, they are not starving for donations.
Three former Members of Congress, including one who works at a lobbying and law firm and one who has been plagued by a scandal, are among President Barack Obama’s mega-fundraisers known as bundlers.
Democrats, long the darlings of the technology industry, might be losing some of their fundraising edge in Silicon Valley.
The progressive San Francisco-based phone company known as CREDO Mobile today launched a super PAC to oust a cadre of conservative House Members that it’s calling the “Tea Party Ten.”
Facebook has hired another Republican, adding to its already GOP-heavy Washington, D.C., staff.
The National Retail Federation spent weeks urging the White House to include in the president’s State of the Union address a plug for retail jobs along with domestic manufacturing ones. Apparently, the president didn’t buy it.
The lawyer who a decade ago advised Newt Gingrich on how to engage in advocacy without officially becoming a “lobbyist” is now working to close the loopholes that enable the former Speaker and other Members to avoid public disclosure.
The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.
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