More Lobbying, Less Registration: Influence-Peddling Goes Underground
This is one of our editors' picks from our ongoing roundup of Investigations Elsewhere.
On Sunday, The New York Times reported … more…
Stimulus Lobbying Disclosure Promise Still Not Fulfilled
To curb the lobbying feeding frenzy surrounding the nearly $800 billion stimulus package, in March the Obama administration … more…
Disclosure Rules on Stimulus Lobbying Produce Few Actual Disclosures
Today’s roundup of stimulus coverage:
The Associated Press has today’s must-read stimulus story, which reports that federal … more…
One Foreign Actor We Didn’t Expect To Discover
Typical attire: sandals and maroon-saffron robe. Typical day: wake at 3:30 a.m., prayer and meditation. Typical message: peace, nonvi … more…
Opening the Window on Foreign Lobbying
Oct. 23: This post has been corrected.
In 2008, Bermuda’s influential reinsurance industry needed some help. Successive seasons of … more…
Help Identify Health Care Lobbyists on the Hill
Don't let the 80s hue of this photo fool you into thinking you're looking at a scene from years ago. It was taken last week by a N … more…
New Rules for the Lobbyists and Their Proxies
The Obama administration has updated its rules on stimulus lobbying to limit communication from everyone (not just registered … more…
Who’s Lobbying Who on the Stimulus
by Brian Boyer and Olga Pierce, ProPublica - May 15, 2009 9:10 am EDT
Two months ago, President Obama issued a memo requiring fed … more…
In Stimulus Lobbying Forms, Details Are Scant
As we just noted a few minutes ago, you can now see who’s been lobbying for stimulus money. First quarter lobbying disclosure … more…
Search Lobbying Reports on the Stimulus
Given that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus) is the biggest spending bill in U.S. history, we at … more…
The DNA Debacle: How the Federal Government Botched the DNA Backlog Crisis
Kellie Greene spent three years living in fear, waiting for police to catch the stranger who raped her.
Her fear slowly tu … more…
Morning Cup: Design by (Oversight) Committee
This is the latest roundup from our stimulus blog.
If you want stimulus transparency done right, you’ve got to do it yourself, … more…Does a Stimulus Lobbyist Work for You?
We’ve already discussed what stimulus lobbyists are lobbying about, but who are they lobbying for?
Many of them, it turns … more…
Lobbyists for the Stimulus: Disclosure Forms
What Stimulus Lobbyists Are Lobbying About
President Obama’s memo last week imposing restrictions on lobbyists who work on stimulus-related issues made us here at ProPublica … more…
Federal Agencies to Post Records of Contact With Stimulus Lobbyists
What is the little guy – a troubled city, state, small business – to do when so many people want a piece of the stimulus … more…
Quick Picks: Citi Execs’ Office Redo and Lobbying Forms that Need a Redo
Our editors' picks of the latest investigative stories around the Web:
Citigroup, which has has reaped $45 billion in bailo … more…Quick Picks: Obama’s Elastic Ethics and Stimulus Package Pork
Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day's stories from "Breaking on the Web."
Obama is already navigating some treach … more…Obama: Lobbyists, I Can’t Quit You!
In November 2007, Barack Obama proclaimed that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House." That eventually became a pledge that t … more…
Quick Picks: Treasury Letters and Texas Lobbyists
Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day's stories from "Breaking on the Web."
We took a break from watching Inauguration … more…
February 12, 2010
TV’s Talking Heads Double as Lobbyists Sebastian Jones, The Nation, February 12, 2010
January 19, 2010
Law to Curb Lobbying Sends It Underground David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, January 19, 2010
September 17, 2009
Trading Places: From Ex-Lobbyist to Market Watchdog David Corn and Daniel Schulman, Mother Jones, September 17, 2009
Much of Lobbyists’ Fundraising Help Goes Undisclosed Sharon Theimer, Associated Press, September 17, 2009
September 16, 2009
Panelists: More Disclosure of Federal Lobbying Needed Matthias Jaime, Capital Eye, September 16, 2009
August 31, 2009
Wall Street Stealth Lobby Defends Derivatives Haul Christine Harper, Matthew Leising and Shannon Harrington, Bloomberg, August 31, 2009
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