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K Street is the place to be if you’re going to stop the moneybags who are corrupting our government!... read full article »

Want Tax Breaks? Pay a Lobbyist

Some Fortune 100 companies hate paying taxes so much that they will pay to lobby against them. And it works. According to the Sunlight Foundation, the ten Fortune 100 companies that lobbied the most on tax issues paid an average... read full article »

British Lobby Firm Admits to Using ‘Dark Arts’

Executives at one of Britain’s largest lobby firms, Bell Pottinger, have been caught in an undercover operation nonchalantly admitting to using a whole repertoire of “dark arts” to change Google search results and Wikipedia entries, and influence public opinion. ... read full article »

Job Offers on K Street for Top Senate Aides

With its record-low job approval ratings and bitter infighting over passing basic budgets, Congress didn’t seem to be doing much of anything this year. Lobbying firms predict that in 2012, it will be doing even less. ... read full article »

All in the Family

Conflict of interest much? Roy Blunt, a Republican Senator from Missouri, speaks out on the proposed AT&T merger and has a son lobbying for the company.... read full article »

Oil Companies Loving the Loopholes

If you have a tax break and you’d like to keep it, borrow a page from the oil industry’s playbook: hire tons of lobbyists and it won’t get touched.... read full article »

Lobbyists Give $17.1 Million to Only 76 Recipients

According to a study released by the Sunlight Foundation, $17.1 million has been bundled by lobbyists since 2009 and given to 76 recipients in Congress.... read full article »

More Facts About the Efforts to Discredit Occupy Wall Street

The dark arts of Washington’s influence industry see the light of day in a post from Public Campaign, which released a list of ten facts about the employees and lobbying clients of Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford (CLGC), the lobbying... read full article »

Banks Spend Record Amounts on Lobbying in 2011

As the nation’s economy continues to lurch along, lobbying firms that represent America’s banks are having a banner year. The Huffington Post writes today about a study by the Charlotte Observer: The five banks that spend the most on lobbying... read full article »

The Anatomy of a Campaign

The work of lobbyists ensured that, despite the urgency of the childhood obesity epidemic, those industries’ interests were protected.... read full article »

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