Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand

By Marianne Lavelle

More than 460 new businesses and interest groups jumped into lobbying Congress on global warming in the weeks before the House neared its hi

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"… on the White House staff of both President Bushes. Howard had also been a senior adviser to GOP House Speakers Dennis Hastert and Newt Gingrich, as well as former …"

Harry Reid’s new chief of staff is his top career individual donor

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Fresh off his unanimous re-election by Senate Democrats to be Majority Leader for the 112th Congress, Nevada’s Harry Reid has promoted aide

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"… ith Reid paying $165,000 per year. Krone, whose original title had been “senior adviser,” is currently Reid’s deputy chief of staff. This promotion may garner …"

Top 10 lobby firms take financial reform to the bank

By Joe Eaton and M.B. Pell

Just 10 Washington lobbying firms represented more than 130 key clients in the financial regulatory reform debate that is entering a crucial

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"… rked as political director for House Minority Leader John Boehner and as a senior adviser to Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt.The Center ranked the lobbying firms based on t …"

"… s ahead.Brownstein Hyatt’s finance team is led by Michael Levy, a former senior adviser to then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin during the Clinton administration …"

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'Clean energy' expansion could strain U.S. power grid

By Chris Hamby

As President Barack Obama proposes to generate more electricity from "clean energy" sources, a new government report highlights the effects

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"… still compose a relatively small portion of the energy mix.David Meyer, a senior adviser in the Energy Department’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Rel …"

Fourteen top Bush officials invested in Enron stock

By Derrick Wetherell

WASHINGTON, January 11, 2002 — Fourteen of the top 100 officials in the Bush administration owned stock in embattled energy services firm En

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"… Enron shareholders, according the personal financial disclosure forms, are senior adviser to the President Karl Rove and Undersecretary of State Charlotte Beers, wh …"

Bundlers to the White House: Craig, Jarrett first in line

By Sarah Laskow

We already know that Obama’s transition staff is stacked with campaign donors and fundraisers. And despite the vaunted small-donor base deve

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"… to filter into the emerging Obama administration, led by Gregory Craig and Valerie Jarrett. Both Craig, who will be White House counsel, and Jarrett, tapped as a s …"

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The Clinton top 100: Where are they now?

By M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 — Two years after they left the federal government and one year after a ban that limited their lobbying activitie

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"… recently named to the board of directors of Apple Computers. He is also a senior adviser to the Internet search firm Google, Inc.Defense Secretary Cohen is a direc …"

Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part five

For months, disarray was the hallmark of Vice President Al Gore's campaign. Last October 6, he moved his campaign to Nashville from Washingt

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"… s of two-earner, time-squeezed parents. He worked closely with Gore as his senior adviser during Gore’s 1988 presidential campaign. Galston is director of the Ins …"

McCain's friends

By Caitlin Ginley

While Republican John McCain has severed ties with two campaign advisers who lobbied for the military junta in Myanmar, connections between

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"… hts abusers in the Philippines and Nigeria, continues to serve McCain as a senior adviser. Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, and Paul Manafort, a Republican …"

Advisors of influence: Nine members of the Defense Policy Board have ties to defense contractors

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Data by Aron Pilhofer WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 — Of the 30 members of the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advis

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"… y had contracts worth $146 million and $83 million in 2002. Schlesinger, a senior adviser at Lehman Brothers, chairs the board of trustees of the Mitre Corp., a not …"

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