K Street's top 25 firms grossed $227.5 million in the first half of 2010, with four of the top five firms posting double-digit gains.
Labor leaders who have been among President Barack Obama’s most reliable — but recently alienated — supporters went to the White House on Friday to air their grievances and discuss future fiscal policy.
House Majority Whip-designate Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday announced that Hill veteran Tim Berry, now a top lobbyist at Time Warner Inc., will join his office as chief of staff.
The net neutrality debate is stirring up passions across the spectrum from an order of Benedictine nuns in Kansas to lobbying giants such as AT&T;, whose staff handed out gourmet cupcakes at the Federal Communications Commission building Wednesday.
With the prospect of gridlock on Capitol Hill and the recent passage of complicated health and financial reform laws that now must be implemented, many lobbyists are shifting their focus from Congress to the executive branch, where federal agencies are hammering out regulations that will have far-reaching effects.
If the White House and Congressional leaders decide to pare back the IRS code next year, tax writers from both parties will have no shortage of special-interest goodies to throw on the bonfire.
President Barack Obama’s desire to streamline the cluttered tax code will spark a lobbying frenzy next year that could pit big business and other interests against each other as they clash over what deductions should be pruned or preserved.
Former Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.) will be the next president and CEO of the American Gas Association, the organization announced Tuesday.
Opponents of federal ethanol subsidies mounted a last-minute campaign Monday to reduce the industry’s funds in the White House’s $858 billion tax package. But even if the near-term assault fails, lobbyists on both sides will be back at it next year.
Coming off a successful lobbying fight that all but eliminated the prospects of Members signing off on a card-check bill in the foreseeable future, the downtown business community is training its sights on the National Labor Relations Board for initiatives that may make it easier for workers to unionize.
Sen. Judd Gregg’s decision to drop of out the running for the top Business Roundtable job won’t derail the trade association’s hunt for a new president and CEO.
President Barack Obama’s tax cut deal drew protests Tuesday from progressive groups that have spent much of the first two years of the Obama presidency drumming up support for his initiatives such as health care and financial reform.
Lobbyist Lanny Davis is again diving head-first into the lucrative business of representing foreign governments, signing up Equatorial Guinea in April and Honduras last week.
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