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BIA Digital Partners invests $6.7 million in Job News
- BIA Digital Partners II LP, a private investment firm in Chantilly, invested $6.7 million in Job News of Louisville, Ky. Job News, also called United Metro Media LLC, is an independent recruitment company that uses the Internet, print ads, job fairs, and broadcast outlets to find candidates for its national and local customers.
Slowdown in lobbying temporary, firms back in swing
- The election and the change in control of Congress slowed down the lobbying industry last year, cutting growth by roughly 80 percent and hurting the bottom lines of some of the area’s top lobbying firms.
Navigational toolbox to find the right lobbyist
- The prospect of finding the right person to be your lobbyist can prove daunting — particularly in light of the overcharges, conflicts of interest and illegal tactics laid bare during recent lobbying scandals. There are, however, a number of resources available to help you find the right person.
Grassroots lobbyists throng Congress
- It is spring and they are everywhere. Flocks of constituents, here by the thousands for organized “Hill Days,” are filling up hotels, crowding congressional cafeterias and making the halls of Congress ring with the clatter of earnest shoefalls.
- It is spring and they are everywhere. Flocks of constituents, here by the thousands for organized “Hill Days,” are filling up hotels, crowding congressional cafeterias and making the halls of Congress ring with the clatter of earnest shoefalls.
Lobbying spending leaps last year
- Given the battle last fall for control of Congress, and the subsequent scramble to get the lame-duck leadership to pass certain bills and budgets, it is not surprising that lobbying spending was up sharply in some sectors. Even so, lobbying spending during 2006 appears headed for a new high.
States rush for new controls on lobbyists
- Over the last six weeks state legislatures and governors from Florida to Alaska have moved to tighten the rules on lobbyists, limiting gifts, curbing privately funded travel and even cutting off some communications during floor sessions.
Political Internet grows, still tough audience for lobbyists
- Some 60 million people were online during the 2006 campaign, gathering political information and exchanging views by e-mail. Nearly 14 million of those people posted on blogs, uploaded a video they created or forwarded political content via e-mail.
K Street Communique: YouTube becoming nexus for grassroots organizers
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In grainy footage lit by headlights, hundreds of anxious townspeople move past protesters shouting “We won't Glow ” to sign petitions and join a tense meeting with suit-clad spokesmen.
New Senate ethics bill could impose 10 years in prison on wayward lobbyists and their employers
- The Senate’s new ethics rules could reach far beyond Washington’s lobbyists and put the officials who employ them at risk of lengthy prison sentences.
Senate ethics bill blocks lobbying spouses
- When the Senate passed its lobbying reform bill last Friday it banned gifts, meals and travel paid for by lobbyists or the organizations that employ them.
Lobbying reform for nonprofits might be just starting to develop
- An amendment to the lobbying reform package now before the Senate aims to keep politicians from using nonprofits to pay for political expenses such as consulting and campaign events. Though tightly focused on organizations where senators exert an element of control, nonprofit experts are concerned the amendment is only the first in a series of measures that could tighten regulations on all charities.
- An amendment to the lobbying reform package now before the Senate aims to keep politicians from using nonprofits to pay for political expenses such as consulting and campaign events. Though tightly focused on organizations where senators exert an element of control, nonprofit experts are concerned the amendment is only the first in a series of measures that could tighten regulations on all charities.
Senate moves to change ethics rules
- Senate leaders are moving to tighten congressional ethics rules, though — with only a one-vote majority — they are treading more lightly and more slowly than their enthusiastic colleagues in the House.
Lobbying reform measures expected to hit this week
- Bans on outside-funded meals, gifts and travel, expected to blow through the Democratically controlled House of Representatives at the start of the new congressional session this week, could focus lobbyists more sharply on campaign events and nudge some organizations towards the edge of the circle of influence.