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  1. November 05, 2009, 2:59 pm

    TRANSPORTATION: Buffett’s New Company Sure Knows How to Lobby

    President Obama wants Washington to get more creative on infrastructure funding. Railroads are undoubtedly part of that big financial future. Warren Buffett, an Obama economic confidante, has just placed a huge bet that could accelerate that creativity to his and rail’s overall benefit. Read more

  2. October 14, 2009, 11:25 am

    HEALTH CARE: The Abstinence Lobby’s Lone Wolf

    Most rich people hoping to influence federal policy are content to write checks to fund political campaigns or shuffle cash to advocacy groups that lobby for their causes. But not Raymond Ruddy. Read more

  3. September 10, 2009, 11:48 am

    ACCOUNTABILITY: Pentagon: We’re Trying to Break “The Iron Triangle”

    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is “trying to break that tight bond between” the “iron triangle of Congress and industry and the bureaucracy in” the Pentagon — which the Center highlighted in its story “The Murtha Method” — according to a Defense Department press secretary. The spokesman was reacting to a question about the Center’s investigation at yesterday’s press briefing. Read more

  4. August 27, 2009, 11:46 am

    HEALTH CARE: Chamber of Commerce Flowchart Linked to Former Insurance Industry Lobbyist

    Free-market cheerleaders have long relied on the flowchart to push their notion that government intervention makes a hash of things. Republican flowcharts helped knock the wind out of Clinton’s proposed health care reforms in the 1990s. And so it’s no surprise that opponents of President Obama’s health care reforms are once again pulling out charts. Read more

  5. July 24, 2009, 1:21 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: The Podestas’ Hot Seats on Climate Change

    It’s Washington’s version of Family Feud, starring those well-connected Podestas. Today’s category: global warming. Read more

  6. July 24, 2009, 1:06 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: The Congressional Black Caucus Vs. the Blue Dog Coalition

    Following the coverage yesterday about the role of fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats in the U.S. House who seem to have stymied President Obama’s health care reform timeline (including our story yesterday on the group’s campaign contributors), the Blue Dogs have now come under fire from a key group of fellow Dems. Read more

  7. July 01, 2009, 9:58 am

    ENVIRONMENT: Southern Company Dominates the Climate Lobbying Scene

    Southern Company, the nation’s largest electric power generator, also had the largest force of lobbyists among the hundreds of businesses and interest groups that were seeking to influence the landmark climate change legislation that just passed the House. Read more

  8. June 16, 2009, 2:33 pm

    ENVIRONMENT: EPA Not Ready To Name Coal Ash Locations

    Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Dem, stirred excitement last Friday when she decried the “huge muzzle” the Obama administration placed on her by deciding not to disclose the whereabouts of more than 40 dumpsites full of coal ash — the often toxic combustion waste from coal-fired power plants. Read more

  9. June 05, 2009, 10:45 am

    STATES: Ethics Update — June 5

    Here’s our biweekly round-up of recent developments regarding ethics policies in the states. PaperTrail is digging through the news for the latest on this front, so you don’t have to. Read more

  10. May 28, 2009, 2:55 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: Buying Ambassadorships Redux: Four Obama Nominees Were Big-Money Bundlers

    President Barack Obama’s pledge to change the ways of Washington doesn’t yet seem to apply to the diplomatic selection process, if yesterday’s round of ambassadorial nominations is any guide. Read more

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