Tag: Lobbying

Three top senators asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the lodging-sharing company. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Warren, Feinstein go after Airbnb for hotel lobby

Sean Higgins · April 20, 2017 5:04 pm

Mortgage bankers started a new effort to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, seeking to push Congress to pass legislation after a bipartisan group of senators failed in 2013. (AP Photo/File)

Mortgage bankers launch new plan for reforming Fannie and Freddie

Joseph Lawler · April 20, 2017 3:49 pm

Democrats, combined with the GOP support, will produce more than the 218 signatures needed to push the bill that would revive the Export-Import Bank to the floor for a vote in late October. (AP Photo)

The Davos crowd learns to speak Trump’s language

Timothy P. Carney · April 18, 2017 10:01 pm

The two richest counties in America, and five of the seven richest, are in commuting distance of D.C. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

What makes Washington wealthy

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2017 4:01 am

How Hotel Chains and Government Work Together to Thwart Airbnb

Tony Mecia · April 17, 2017 4:02 pm

The White House has tried to explain why the president has not taken the same positions he did as a candidate. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

11 times Trump flipped

Sarah Bedford · April 14, 2017 12:15 pm

The Podesta Group filed a new disclosure on Wednesday acknowledging its work for a European nonprofit that could have principally benefitted the Ukrainian government. The group's Chairman Tony Podesta had raised $268,000 for Clinton's campaign.

Beltway Confidential

Media ignore Tony Podesta’s Clinton bundling in reports on new lobbying disclosure

Emily Jashinsky · April 13, 2017 6:48 pm

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 3. Trump signed an executive order that will direct the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which reshaped financial regulation after 2008-2009 crisis. From left are, Vice President Mike Pence Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, Rep. Ann Wagner, R Mo. and National Economic Council Chairman Gary Cohn. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republicans set their sights lower on Dodd-Frank reform

Joseph Lawler · April 9, 2017 4:00 am

ACC was a major donor supporting Vitter. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Former Sen. David Vitter lobbying for American Chemistry Council

Daniel Chaitin · April 6, 2017 5:33 pm

When you drain something, you're supposed to take away from, not add to. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Beltway Confidential

So about draining that swamp…

Becket Adams · March 30, 2017 5:28 pm

At least three former Trump administration officials have reportedly said they never signed the president's ethics pledge. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Three former Trump officials never signed ethics pledge

Daniel Chaitin · March 29, 2017 9:49 pm

When Jim McCrery retired from Congress in 2008, he walked off Capitol Hill and over to Capitol Counsel LLC, where he serves as the lobbying shop's lead Republican lobbyist. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Beltway Confidential

Lawmaker-turned-lobbyist John McCrery takes advantage of CNBC’s John Harwood to shill for Obamacare

Philip Wegmann · March 28, 2017 8:59 pm