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Kim wrote the amount on the disclosure forms include the coordinator's salary, leasing office space in Washington, D.C., support provided to Bowman to complete her duties, travel officials related to congressional relations and hosting or participation in various events.
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National Public Radio (NPR) is using taxpayer dollars to pay for high-priced lobbyists to fight Republican efforts to prohibit federal funding for the broadcaster. Despite outrage over the openly liberal network receiving tens of millions of dollars in subsidies while government deficits are at record levels, NPR brass have engaged a new lobbying firm to keep the spigots flowing. Immediately after the House voted to permanently defund NPR in mid-March, the network hired the well-heeled lobbying firm of Bracy Tucker Brown & Valanzano to represent it. The amount of taxpayer funds being paid to the firm won't be known until second-quarter lobbying reports are filed. However, in 2010, NPR spent more than $411,000 on its in-house lobbyists. On top of that, the Podesta Group, a Democratic lob...
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Senate disclosures show that former Rep. Charles W. Stenholm lobbied as recently as this summer for Open Range Communications, the now-bankrupt wireless company that owes U.S. taxpayers more than $70 million. But the lobbying firm where he now works plans to drop his name from more than a year's worth of lobbying-activity reports.
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Local governments in Arizona fought off budget crises last year by reducing services, raising taxes and, in many cases, spending more money on lobbying services. Cities, towns, counties and state agencies appear to have spent more money on lobbying activities in 2009 than they did in 2008, according to annual lobbying expense reports filed with the Secretary of State's Office. All reports were due March 1, although some government bodies missed the deadline and have yet to file.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign countries, according to third- quarter lobbying reports. Google, Yahoo Inc. and a trade group that also includes Microsoft Corp. have focused lobbying efforts on the bill, dubbed the Global Online Freedom Act of 2009.
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Once a year, lobbyists in Virginia are required to disclose how they spent their clients' money. The nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project, which tracks campaign finance data, has posted the lobbying disclosure reports for the top 55 companies and trade associations that had representation in Richmond from May 2009 to April 2010.
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Chesapeake Energy spent more than $1 million lobbying the federal government on issues ranging from climate change to the derivatives market during the first quarter of 2010 alone, according to public records. Devon Energy spent a little more than half a million dollars on lobbying efforts during the same period of time, according to federal disclosure statements. The lobbying reports, required by federal law, include payments to Washington, D.C., lobbying firms, as well as money spent analyzing and monitoring legislation and things like dues to trade organizations and travel expenses.
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The parent company of United Medical Center, which has received about $100 million from D.C. taxpayers in recent years, continued paying big fees to its cadre of lobbyists last year even as millions of dollars in local and federal taxes went unpaid at the Southeast Washington hospital. Specialty Hospitals of America, a for-profit company based in New Hampshire, paid at least $300,000 to the lobbying firm Carmen Group, according to local and federal lobbying disclosure reports. The expenditures came at a time when the finances of United Medical Center were becoming increasingly dire, public records show.
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Some bi-state and regional authorities dropped their Washington lobbyists after Governor Christie blasted spending public dollars on lobbying six months ago, new disclosure reports show. But one entity that fired its lobbyist sent two employees to Washington instead, and another, with the approval of Christie's office, issued a new contract for a job that sounds like what many registered Washington lobbyists do.
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The team behind "LobbyWatch" investigated federal lobbying using the Senate Office of Public Records online lobbyist disclosure forms and created a user-friendly database that reports on and tracks federal lobbying, the players, costs and consequences. Nixon explains how the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists used maps to show how the weapons trade is increasing on a global scale, specifically in countries abundant in natural resources such as oil.
