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$4.5 billion-dollar tariff break back
By Bill Allison Apr 13, 2009 6:56 p.m. Read all about it -
Former PMA Group Clients Get Defense Earmarks from Murtha for 2010
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 3, 2009 9:54 p.m.Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has requested defense related funding for five companies that hired the PMA Group last year, according to a review of the earmark requests released on the Congressman's website. Murtha has requested a total of $23.8 million to be directed to these companies.
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Nothing yet from Norm Dicks, C.W. "Bill" Young
By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:14 p.m.As noted here, Rep. Norm Dicks is one of the more prolific PMA Group earmarks, and is number four on the list of top recipients of PMA Group & client campaign cash. Searching Dicks' site, I was unable to find a list of appropriations requests.
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Visclosky shuts out former PMA Group clients
By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 7:54 p.m.Rep. Pete Visclosky was one of the top recipients of contributions from PMA Group. He endorsed some form of investigation of the lobbying firm that was raided by the FBI -- "What form that action takes, who offers it, how it will turn out, I don't know," he said last month. In his fiscal year 2010 earmark requests, just posted online, he requested no earmarks for former clients of PMA Group.
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K Street Boom: At least 1,699 new clients in 2009
By Bill Allison Apr 1, 2009 6:21 p.m.Lobbying firms and special interests have filed nearly 1,700 new registration forms so far in the first quarter of 2009, according to a review of lobbying disclosure forms available online at the Senate Office of Public Records. As the federal government pumps up spending and intervenes in the troubled financial markets, K Street firms appear to have had no shortage of new business.
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Timely disclosure fail
By Bill Allison Apr 1, 2009 4:07 p.m.I'll be posting some info on where we are with new lobbying clients in the first quarter of 2009, but in the meantime (and with apologies to the sometimes work unsafe Fail Blog), thought I'd post one of the search results I came across while going through the Senate Office of Public Records lobbying database (click the image to see it larger):
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A trillion here, a trillion there...
By Bill Allison Mar 31, 2009 9:33 p.m."History teaches us that an outlay of so much money in such a short period of time will inevitably attract those seeking to profit criminally," the Hill quotes Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, saying.
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Tariff Action Coalition formed
By Bill Allison Mar 31, 2009 3 a.m. Read all about it -
Washington Post: Lobbyist business booming
By Bill Allison Mar 30, 2009 9:28 p.m.Put another way, Main Street's gloom has been K Street's boon," write Ellen Nakashima and Brady Dennis. The first quarter ends tomorrow; lobbyists don't have to disclose how much of a boom it's been until April 20.
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The Next Abramoff: PMA Group?
By Bill Allison Mar 30, 2009 2:55 p.m.The New York Times reports:
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Dodd's family business?
By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 2:58 p.m.Kevin Rennie notes another connection of Sen. Christopher Dodd to the financial industry, at one remove from AIG:
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Muckety maps PMA Group giving
By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 1:13 a.m.There have been lots of different ways of slicing PMA Group contributions from Congressional Quarterly and the Center for Responsive Politics (see here too). Now Muckety looks at the web of connections of top PMA Group lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti. From CQ's analysis, Muckety begins by noting:
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Grassley seeks lobbyist disclosure for tariff bills
By Bill Allison Mar 16, 2009 3:56 p.m. Read all about it -
CRP: PMA Group, clients donated to 516 members of Congress
By Bill Allison Mar 13, 2009 12:37 p.m.Lindsay Renick Mayer of the Center for Responsive Politics writes on OpenSecrets.org about PMA Group, the lobbying firm that specialized in defense appropriations and that is reportedly under investigation for campaign finance irregularities:
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