Now the government has published a lobbying bill.
It was the key recommendation of the Public Administration Select Committee report into lobbying, published just three weeks ago.
A Washington Post analysis of health care lobbying published Monday said that more than 350 Hill staffers and members of Congress are being paid to influence lawmakers on the topic.
Warren Krafchik of the IBP says political will, not technical capacity, is the main brake on openness.Once details are published, citizens can lobby for different spending priorities.
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Oettinger, Germany's commissioner in Brussels, has acquired a reputation for representing the views of his country's big online publishing lobbies, which are eager to rein in Google.
The Private Equity Council, the industry's lobbying group, published a study recently suggesting that companies that have undergone buyouts created 8.4percentt more jobs than their peers.
He declined to be interviewed for this article, citing a critical editorial about his lobbying activities published on Nov. 13 by The Washington Post as the reason.
The backstory here is that the German publishing industry lobbied for a copyright law extension at the start of last year to cover so-called news snippets — as they were unhappy that Google's business was benefiting from free use of their content.
Britain in Europe, a pro-euro lobby, published a pamphlet this week arguing that "winning from behind" was possible provided that a broad coalition of support could be mustered.
