Automatic Website Traffic RSS

Boeing Fired Lobbying Firm That Helped It Navigate 737 Max Crashes

Boeing Co., which builds planes for presidents and holds billions in government contracts, is at risk of losing its unmatched clout in Washington. read more

What Is Corporate Lobbying?

Lobbying is a controversial and often misunderstood activity. Protected by the First Amendment and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, in its most simple form lobbying is informing government ... read more

Trump trial: Why can't Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?

Former President Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to face criminal charges in an American courtroom, yet most of the country is getting news about the trial secondhand. read more

Environmental Lobbyist

Environmental lobbyists work to persuade politicians to vote on legislation in a way that will favor the interests of the environmental group they represent. Lobbying can be separated into two forms, ... read more

US Is Lobbying Against UN Palestinian Statehood Resolution, Leak Reveals

Full UN membership is crucial for a two-state solution or another outcome allowing for Palestinian self-determination. read more

Learn to Love Lobbying

And yet nonprofits routinely forfeit their right to lobby, finds the Strengthening Nonprofit Advocacy Project (SNAP), a survey of more than 1,700 national nonprofits conducted in 2001 by Tufts ... read more

Disagreement and lobbying threaten passage of Vermont’s landmark data privacy bill

This was supposed to be the year that Vermont legislators took on Big Tech in a sweeping data privacy bill years in the making. With mere weeks left in the session, that’s looking less likely. read more

Pender launches new $42K lobbying program, legislative priorities include PFAS regulation

One of the fastest growing counties in North Carolina is initiating a new effort to gain influence in the General Assembly. READ MORE: Beach towns gear up for ambitious state ... read more

Kari Lake got what she wanted on abortion. Now she's lobbying to undo it

Opinion: Kari Lake is madly trying to figure out a way to spin her view on abortion so she can become a U.S. senator. Really, is anybody buying it? read more

Texas Could Soon Be The First State To End Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying

Though most of them weren’t aware, Texas taxpayers spent a total of $75 million on contract lobbyists during the last session of the state legislature. That is one of the findings of a new ... read more

What is lobbying, when is it legal, and who holds MPs to account?

Standards is the word of the day, after the Government watered down controversial plans to overhaul the disciplinary process for MPs and review a senior Tory’s alleged breach of lobbying rules a ... read more

Michigan House hears testimony on campaign finance, lobbying laws after Chatfield charges

The Michigan House's ethics committee heard testimony on an ethics package aimed at bolstering anti-corruption laws in the state. read more