The Turkish parliament descended into fresh chaos on Thursday with lawmakers exchanging punches for a second time over a controversial bill to boost police powers against protesters, local media reported.
Recriminations about how the two companies came to be seized also began on Monday, when lawmakers and White House officials exchanged angry accusations over who was to blame.
That October, 11 people were arrested and charged with taking part in a scheme whereby casino operators, working through lobbyists, would promise major political donations to lawmakers in exchange for supporting the bill.
Still, no decision has thrust Mr. Barbosa into Brazil's public imagination as much as his handling of the trial of political operatives, legislators and bankers found guilty in a labyrinthine corruption scandal called the mensalão, or big monthly allowance, after the regular payments made to lawmakers in exchange for their votes.
Jarrod D. Massey, a former Alabama lobbyist at the center of a bribery scandal that has shaken the state government, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Montgomery, Ala., to conspiring to pay state lawmakers in exchange for their votes for pro-gambling legislation.
The inquiry, which involved Ron Cobb, a lobbyist who handed cash to lawmakers in exchange for their promises to support a bill on horse-race betting, has cut deeply into the ranks of the state's black legislators, who make up 12percentt of the General Assembly.
At any rate, I guess this piece hangs pretty heavily on the most generous possible definitions for "neutral" and "mum," but for the benefit of helping everyone figure out how "lobbying" works, let's recall that industries typically make their policy preferences known by "giving millions of dollars to lawmakers in exchange for doing what they want".
Lawmakers have defined that limit to include debt exchanged between federal government accounts.
Democratic leaders said it was Congress's responsibility to allow lawmakers the chance to exchange views on the war because Congress provided the money for operations that have claimed the lives of slightly more than 1,000 American military members.
