Koch's web of influence

By John Aloysius Farrell

The Koch Industries web of influence

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"… abilities and defense costs.In a 2008 Koch Industries publication, General Counsel Mark Holden griped that “many of those claims are an outright abuse of t …"

Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels

By John Aloysius Farrell

Gingrich takes consulting fee from ethanol while getting big fossil fuel donations

The climate lobbyists

By Matthew Lewis

A sampling of power players

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"… organization Oxfam America. …"

"… outh Coast Air Quality Management District. Jack Quinn, Former White House Counsel Co-founder and chairman, Quinn Gillespie & Associates Quinn served as …"

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The climate change lobby explosion

By Marianne Lavelle

Will thousands of lobbyists imperil action on global warming?

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"… ary, ACCCE has at least 15 outside lobbyists, including former White House Counsel Quinn. The big effort is not surprising, since electricity is the largest …"

Climate change lobbying dominated by 10 firms

By Marianne Lavelle and Matthew Lewis

Hundreds of lobbyists are cramming into Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building this week for the House Energy and Commerce Committee

Arianna Huffington, Frederic Seegal join Center’s board of directors

Huffington, Seegal join Center board
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Top lawmaker urges Obama to fill gov’t watchdog jobs

By John Solomon

The top Republican on the House’s main investigative committee today pressed President Barack Obama to fill the dozen or so vacant watchdog

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"… well as at the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Special Counsel.Those watchdogs are entrusted with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse and …"

Where are the watchdogs?

By John Solomon

Faced with record deficits and expanding federal responsibilities, politicians from President Barack Obama on down routinely talk about the

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"… ntee retired in March 2009.The top jobs at the Office of Special Counsel, charged with protecting federal whistleblowers, and the Comptroller Gener …"

"… tired in March 2009. No replacement has been named.And former U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch, whose office investigates whistleblower’s allegations and p …"

"… r withholding information from Congress.The lengthy vacancy at the Special Counsel’s office has frustrated whistleblower advocates, who have been pressing …"

"… ressing Obama to name a replacement for months.“Appointing a new Special Counsel is critical,” said Stephen M. Kohn, a lawyer who serves as executive dir …"

More transparency sought from White House’s OMB in regulation reviews

By Jim Morris

Under President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, the White House Office of Management and Budget became known as the place where promising

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"… r Progressive Reform. On March 17, the center sent a letter to White House Counsel Robert Bauer, complaining that OIRA is violating the order by failing to m …"

A most favored corporation: Enron prevailed in federal, state lobbying efforts 49 times

By M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2003 — Enron Corp., which ran a formidable lobbying machine in Washington and state capitals, gained favorable treatm

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