By
Steven T. Dennis
Bill Clark/Roll Call
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said this week he believes Republicans could be enticed to vote for controversial revenue raisers if Democrats promised to provide permanent relief from the alternative minimum tax.
By
Ambreen Ali
While most Washington influence efforts focus on Congress or the federal agencies, the nation's largest business lobby has been expanding its campaign to influence the Supreme Court.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
Federal belt-tightening has worried Washington lobbyists across the board, but perhaps no sector is more nervous these days than the agriculture industry.
By
Janie Lorber
When dozens of raucous conservative activists Monday stormed the National Republican Senatorial Committee and demanded the GOP campaign arm stay out of the Utah Senate race, it looked like the tea party mob was at it again.
By
Kate Ackley
When AARP, the dominant player among seniors groups, found itself in hot water because of controversial comments made by one of its top executives about Social Security reform, Phil Kent saw an opportunity.
By
Anna Palmer, Steven T. Dennis
K Street lobbyists are scrambling to defend industry tax breaks and spending programs from ending up as fodder to reduce the deficit in the debt limit talks led by Vice President Joseph Biden.
By
Ambreen Ali
Its cheeky name aside, the Tequila Party has a serious mission. The newly formed grass-roots group sprouted from a growing frustration among Hispanic voters that neither party is doing much to help the nation's immigrant population and that the tea parties have turned the tide against them.
By
Kate Ackley
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled a new website Wednesday as part of its jobs-focused campaign to win Congressional approval for three long-stalled trade pacts. But the pro-trade, big-business lobby isn’t the only organization speaking up on the issue this week.
By
Kate Ackley, Anna Palmer
The head of global government affairs for tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co. is leaving after less than two years on the job. Larry Irving, a former White House technology adviser in the Clinton administration, will depart “to pursue other interests,” the Palo Alto-based company announced Wednesday.
By
Janie Lorber
A handful of Republican and Democratic lawmakers, small-business lobbyists and outside groups such as the U.S. Business and Industry Council have come together in an effort to kill a bank-friendly provision in a patent reform bill that could come to the House floor this week.
