Op-Ed: Ban Members of Congress From Lobbying for Life The massive corporate bailout shows that lobbyists have their grip on Washington. Congress' next ethics reform package needs to slam shut the revolving door.
Tom Perez Put Corporate Lobbyists in Charge of the DNC’s Budget Six of the ten members of the DNC Budget and Finance Committee are at-large, put forward by Chair Tom Perez, and several are lobbyists or investment heads for the fossil fuel industry.
Top Democratic Law Firm Helps Oil Companies Dodge Climate Regulations Perkins Coie, a law firm with deep ties to the Democratic Party, is lobbying for fossil fuel clients to win exemptions from a federal program to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
WeWork’s Revolving-Door Games Called Into Question Progressive groups highlight how the embattled company hired former senior SEC officials to represent its interests at the SEC.
Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, and three attorneys whose donations were returned.
Kyrsten Sinema, the Only Anti-Net Neutrality Dem, Linked to Super PAC Run by a Comcast Lobbyist The super PAC has made independent political expenditures to support Sinema's elections, and Sinema has directed donations to it through a PAC she used to chair.