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Lobbying Decline Continues, But Slows to a Trickle

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue earlier this month. The Chamber spent $124 million on lobbying in 2014, more than any other organization — as usual. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn...

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Despite Predictions, Business is Down on K Street

Some K-Street watchers predicted that the first quarter of 2015 would mark a return to boom times for lobbyists, what with a new GOP- dominated Congress digging in to legislation. But success for some...

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Top lobbying spenders pulled back in third quarter

President Obama’s clean power plants initiative partially spurred a lobbying push by the National Assn of Manufacturers in the third quarter of 2015. John Giles/PA Wire URN:24412138 (Press Association...

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Ex-Im beneficiaries drove lobbying spending in 2015

The 10 biggest lobbying spenders in Washington laid out less than $300 million in 2015, lobbying records and Center for Responsive Politics data show. Expenditures by the top 10 fell to just under $282...

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Battle over Derivatives, Republican Rep. Mark Souder Resigns and More in...

Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics:DERIVATIVES BATTLE: While what seems like an anti-establishment wave is washing over the country, the battle over derivatives...

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Crossroads GPS Whacks Pelosi, Cornyn and Thune Contradict Themselves on...

Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: ELECTION SEASON MAY BE OVER, BUT INFLUENCE IS NOT: Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, the conservative organization that...

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The Politics of Ozone Regulation

President Barack Obama recently instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to overturn written ozone regulations. According to The Hill, the president’s decision came after his chief of staff, Bill...

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Donors to GOP’s Nondisclosing Nonprofits Travel in Familiar Networks

This is the first story in an exclusive series about the funding behind politically active nonprofit organizations that do not publicly disclose their donors. Several nonprofit organizations that don’t...

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American Future Fund’s Wall Street Fantasy

In an ad that started running at the end of February, the American Future Fund (AFF) tries to portray President Barack Obama as being cozy with Wall Street. Anyone who takes time to look at the facts...

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Congolese factions lobbying for U.S. intervention

Moise Katumbi, DR Congo’s prominent opposition politician. (Photo credit Fabrice Cofferini/AFP/Getty Images) In April, one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s most powerful opposition leaders...

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