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Financial Bailout: K Street hurting too?
By Bill Allison Sep 30, 2008 6:11 p.m.The Hill reports that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dissolving their formidable lobbying operations (when the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight was investigating their shady accounting practices, Fannie Mae was spending $8 million a year on lobbyists, some of whom were working with Congress to derail the investigation).
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TCS, Post examine Palin's pursuit of earmarks
By Bill Allison Sep 2, 2008 9:17 p.m.The most interesting story on Alaska Gov. and Republican nominee for Vice President Sarah Palin is the Washington Post's report that, as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin "employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents." Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense provided the earmark analysis. Note who Palin hired:
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Are the parties over?
By Bill Allison Sep 1, 2008 2:33 a.m.Republican presidential nominee John McCain has apparently cancelled all but the most essential official convention activities due Hurricane Gustav's menacing approach toward the Gulf Coast. That means Monday will have none of the normal convention hullabaloo -- the customary succession of speeches (President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney had already cancelled their appearances) will be foregone.
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Washington Post: Biden's Son Lobbied Obama's Staff for Earmarks
By Bill Allison Aug 27, 2008 2:05 p.m.The Washington Post reports that Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for President, requested $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbying firm that employs the son of running mate Joe Biden. Hunter Biden, who's a registered lobbyist (see here and here for his clients), apparently lobbied Obama's Senate office directly:
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More on Stevens' earmarks
By Bill Allison Jul 31, 2008 3:16 p.m.The Washington Post notes that Alaskans are fretting the potential fallout of the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, for not disclosing more than $250,000 in gifts from VECO Corp. Taxpayers for Common Sense sums it up more succinctly:
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Birnbaum: Bank of America lobbyists wrote parts of bank bail out bill
By Bill Allison Jun 26, 2008 3:25 a.m.Jeffrey Birnbaum, writing in the Washington Post, reports lobbyists wrote key portions of the mortgage bailout bill:
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McCain & Lobbyists
By Bill Allison Dec 31, 2007 3:18 p.m.The Washington Post's Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon report on Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists--especially the 32 lobbyists who are designated fundraisers (the preferred term is bundlers, but there are more colorful terms available to us) for his campaign.
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