Lobbying

The Golden Revolving Door

by Judith Siers-Poisson — June 20, 2006 - 10:02am

Eric Lipton reports in a two part series, reinforced by an editorial titled “The Golden Revolving Door,” that the government-industry revolving door is turning faster and faster.

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The New York Times, June 18, 2006

Ashcroft To Help General Dynamics Soar

by Diane Farsetta — June 15, 2006 - 2:15pm

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's lobbying firm, the Ashcroft Group, has been hired by General Dynamics to represent it on "trade and defense issues," reports O'Dwyer's PR Daily.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), June 15, 2006

After Congress, K Street Beats Main Street

by Diane Farsetta — May 16, 2006 - 1:53pm

Part of the Washington DC government-industry revolving door has been quantified: 318 former members of Congress currently lobby their former colleagues, according to a new report by PoliticalMoneyLine. They include former Rep.

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The Hill, May 16, 2006

Big Tobacco Lobbyists Seek To Axe Texas Taxes

by Diane Farsetta — May 15, 2006 - 12:14pm

"Big Tobacco's toughest fight in years is being waged by a band of highly paid, talented and experienced former legislators, political appointees and close friends of the most powerful people in Texas.

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The Dallas Morning News, May 12, 2006

Go Nukes

by Jonathan Rosenblum — May 2, 2006 - 10:54am

What brings together a former director of Greenpeace and the Republican ex-director of the Environmental Protection Agency? Answer: PR firm billings and promoting a new public radiance for the nuclear power industry.

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New York Times, April 25, 2006

Food Labeling Lobbying

by Diane Farsetta — April 25, 2006 - 4:51pm

"Corporate and food-industry lobbyists are stepping up their public-relations push for a controversial bill that would replace state food-safety laws with a federal labeling standard," reports The Hill.

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The Hill, April 19, 2006

K Street to Get a TM?

by Diane Farsetta — April 13, 2006 - 5:39pm

While "most other Republicans" are avoiding the phrase K Street Project, following lobbyist Jack Abramoff's January agreement to plead guilty to corruption charges, Grover Norquist is seeking to trademark it.

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The Hill, April 12, 2006

Wired

by Sheldon Rampton — April 4, 2006 - 5:57pm

Common Cause has produced a report, titled "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing," which describes some of the astroturf front groups that have been created by the cable, telephone and internet industry to lobby for legislation favorable to corporate interests.

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Common Cause

Frequent Flying Regulators

by Bob Burton — April 1, 2006 - 8:22pm

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy that precludes employees from accepting trips paid for by companies the agency regulates is easily side-stepped. Alexander Cohen reports that non-profit groups that "draw their members, their boards and even some of their funding from medical and pharmaceutical-related companies" paid for roughly one-third of the 3,600 sponsored trips received by hundreds of FDA employees since 1999.

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Center for Public Integrity, March 30, 2006.

Can You Feel the Love?

by Judith Siers-Poisson — March 28, 2006 - 7:26pm

Slate.com's Senior Writer Timothy Noah kicked off their new Hot Documents feature with a series of emails between disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Amy Ridenour, Executive Director of the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research.

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Slate.com
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