lobbying

Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher introduced legislation to “drain the swamp” as he lamented that Washington, DC, is “broken.”

In the new Drill Down podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers go after the K Street crowd happily doing business with Beijing-connected interests despite China’s record of human rights abuses and actions that undermine the U.S.

Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), who beat former Rep. Cindy Axne in one of the top congressional races last year, introduced legislation on Monday to increase the “cooling off period” members of Congress have before being able to lobby.

The looming debt ceiling stand-off between lawmakers in Washington, DC, is evidence of corporate America’s waning influence over an increasingly populist Republican Party.

The number of lobbyists from fossil fuel companies attending the COP27 climate change conference has increased by 25 per cent over last year.

Spain has not fully implemented any of the 19 anti-corruption measures recommended by Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO, a report claims.

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), a Democrat who has consistently opposed measures to make America energy independent again, took thousands in donations from a lobbyist for the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

A number of U.S. lobbying firms have terminated contracts with Russian banks and enterprises that President Joe Biden recently sanctioned.

Precision Strategies, a very well-connected and powerful firm with Democrat leanings, is potentially looking to sell as they are in preliminary talks with potential buyers, according to reports.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly lobbied then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond in 2017 to secure government approval for a $1 billion Chinese investment deal.

Biden’s inaugural committee announced that it will be returning a $500 donation from former Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer over China ties.

Incoming Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf will hand over the issue of H-1B visas to another administration official due to his prior role as an outsourcing lobbyist, Breitbart News has learned.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday unveiled his plans to get “corporate money out of politics”– a plan which would affect the DNC, specifically.

A judge has overturned a conviction against Michael Flynn’s former business partner Bijan Rafiekian, who was convicted of illegal lobbying.

The newspaper industry lobbied for, and won, a one-year delay for newspaper delivery drivers in a new California bill on the “gig economy” that makes businesses classify workers as employees rather than independent contractors.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent DC attorney Greg Craig found not guilty of deceiving the Justice Department about his work for Ukraine.

India’s government and companies are openly pushing for the U.S. Senate passage of a bipartisan “country caps” bill that would reward 100,000 Indian graduates per year with green cards if they take technology jobs in America.

Amazon and Facebook have both smashed quarterly lobbying records Tuesday amidst rising interest regulating and using antitrust against America’s largest technology companies. 

Former politicians regularly monetize their experience and contacts via lobbying, consulting, and other influence endeavors.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said on Saturday the U.S. had “serious problems” before Trump because of the people who voted for him.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) found rare common ground with two conservative Republicans on Thursday, agreeing with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on banning members of Congress from lobbying, and with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson on adopting a more lenient policy toward residents in legal trouble.

A Rasmussen Reports poll finds that an increasing number of American voters don’t want their taxes to subsidize National Public Radio (NPR).

Hollywood actress-tuned political activist Jennifer Lawrence is the face of a new star-studded campaign called RepresentUs that seeks to “save” America from political corruption like gerrymandering and lobbying.

The Romanian presidency of the European Union has been slammed by NGO Foodwatch for partnering and being “sponsored” by Coca-Cola.

Open Secrets’ listicle of 2018’s biggest lobbying stories makes no mention of technology companies’ spending on lobbying.

Rep. Peter Rosam (R-IL) is hitting his Democrat challenger, businessman Sean Casten, for lobbying for tax breaks for years — then attacking tax cuts as he tries to unseat Roskam in the hotly contested 6th congressional district of Illinois.

Sir Nick Clegg, the left-wing former Deputy Prime Minister hired as vice-president of global affairs and communications by Facebook, has a long history public controversy, and has previously had harsh words for his new paymasters.

A Chinese electronics company called Hikvision, partly owned by the Communist government, was one of several such firms banned from working for the U.S. government under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed into law by President Trump on Monday.

In a Saturday morning tweet, President Donald Trump wrote that the far-left Washington Post should register as a lobbyist for the online mega-retailer Amazon.

The new Saudi Crown Prince is startling the world with his seeming willingness to reform his country, moderate Islam, cease funding of terror, and send subtle yet public signals to the Jewish community.

At the ZOA dinner, I was shocked to see a highly placed communal leader whom I greatly respect escorting the former Qatari ambassador to the United States to meet attendees.

Google and Facebook, along with other companies in Silicon Valley, spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress in the third quarter in response to fears of regulation, according to a report.

Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax reportedly lobbied lawmakers and federal agencies for looser regulations just months before the company fell victim to a major cyberattack leaving the personal info of 143 million people vulnerable.

Left-wing billionaire George Soros, known for his global political influence, is reportedly upping his lobbying efforts in the U.S. — pouring significantly more money into pushing Congress to back his legislative goals in 2017. According to the Washington Free Beacon, disclosure

The number of federally registered political lobbyists has fallen by 14 percent thus far in 2017 from the 2016 total. However, based on data provided by the non-partisan OpenSecrets.org, spending by lobbyists is on track to rise by about 3 percent in 2017.

Silicon Valley leaders have descended on the nation’s capital this week, arriving in Washington for Tuesday and Wednesday meetings with legislators to push favored left-wing policies.