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Climate change impacts
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
... gas industry have been lobbying on climate change and Congress has shown itself to be a captive of lobbyists for industries and major companies. NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco told the media ...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
... they stick? I have two problems with the changes. First, they do nothing to stop the power of the lobbyists who will try to kill the package. And secondly, the administration has done nothing to pul...
Rising healthcare costs put strain on homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 4, 2009
...m.
It's never a good feeling to have to rely on the government, then, to fix anything. Money, lobbyists and political interests always get in the way.
The hope is that the government and the he...
H.R.875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
in Do you like to cook?, on March 12, 2009
...e legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation. Who...
Lobbyists Looking For Loopholes In New Laws
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 17, 2009
... Obama's campaign promises placed heavy emphasis on regulating the many thousands of Washington lobbyists.
During the Bush administration lobbyists had a virtual field day, every day. They were w...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
...s, will be able to trust anyone else's books. Yet that's where the banking industry and its lobbyists keep taking us. They want government blessing to value their assets any way they want, usi...
Another Election Cycle, Another Round of Tax Lies
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 4, 2008
...ld, however, presidents propose some things, and Congress either agrees or disagrees, and then the lobbyists come in and tell Congress whether they should agree or disagree, and then Congress does eve...
Who will control your computers?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 30, 2008
There is a broad disparity between the views of software manufacturers and their customers with regard to who is ultimately in control of the software running on the customer machine. Businesses (and consumers) like to think that they own the machines they have paid good money for, and that they...
Rich and poor: the CEO pay disconnect
in Sox First, on May 19, 2008
... 1000 CEOs and Obama, who always says he takes no money from political action committees or federal lobbyists, has picked up $130,000 from 45 of America's top companies. Still, the most interesti...
Fraudulent firms and lobbying
in Sox First, on April 8, 2008
...8 per cent less likely to be detected by regulators. The study also found that firms spend more on lobbyists peddling influence when they are actually engaged in hoodwinking investors. On average, a ...
Interview with Brett Curran from Axentis
in Sox First, on February 22, 2008
Had a chat this week with Brett Curran, vice president of GRC and privacy practices at Axentis . He was in Texas, I was in Melbourne, Australia. But it was a great session. We talked about all the issues companies faced struggling with compliance and what they needed to do. Here is the interview...
Lobbyists, subprime and the Rolling Stones
in Sox First, on January 2, 2008
While the US was heading into the subprime meltdown, lawmakers around the country were being dissuaded from bringing in laws to curtail their sharp lending practices and Predatory lending through deceptive or unfair practices in the sale of high-interest loans, often to low-income borrower...
New rules for lunch
in Sox First, on November 6, 2007
...eted spending projects, or earmarks, and will bar House and Senate members from taking gifts from lobbyists or their clients. That includes taking a member of Congress or staffer to lunch or dinne...
"This is a fight about money, not about morality"
in P2P File Sharing, on September 4, 2007
...hey are going to do anyway. In exchange, the entertainment industry should call off the lawyers and lobbyists, leaving our nation's universities to focus on the real challenges facing America'...
RIAA Political Peddling
in Digital Music - The Future, on June 20, 2007
The web site Consumerist ran a poll for worst company in the United States. The winner was RIAA (never mind that it's not an actual company).
Consumerist published the top 50 congresspeople who received RIAA contributions. All the usual suspects are there from both sides of the aisles - ...
RIAA Political Peddling
in P2P File Sharing, on June 20, 2007
The web site Consumerist ran a poll for worst company in the United States. The winner was RIAA (never mind that it's not an actual company).
Consumerist published the top 50 congresspeople who received RIAA contributions. All the usual suspects are there from both sides of the aisles - ...
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in Wangtam, on April 19, 2007
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Former Senator D'Amato Offically Joins PPA
in Internet Poker, on March 6, 2007
...sday evening poker game at his Capitol Hill office, playing with other lawmakers, staff members and lobbyists late into the night over pots that ranged from a few dollars to a few hundred.
Al D'A...
No Compuslory Vaccination for HPV
in Well Woman Blog, on February 23, 2007
...nfection on their own.
Because of a lot of negative media publicity brought about by the voices of lobbyists, Merck has decided to stop the push for this legislation.However, according to CNN Money....
Former Senator D'Amoto to head Poker Lobbying Group
in The Gambling Weblog, on February 20, 2007
...is pending deal with the PPA continues the PPA's use of center/right-leaning, business-oriented lobbyists to further its interests."
While no deal is currently in place for D'Amoto to he...
The new lobbyist toolkit
in Sox First, on January 31, 2007
...evelop grass roots advocacy, much like the National Rife Association and farmers. All up, he says, lobbyists will find ways to work around the new rules....
Suits Changing Music
in P2P File Sharing, on January 24, 2007
...panies' descent into oblivion for the same reasons -- the inclination to invest in lawsuits and lobbyists instead of looking toward the future and investing in creativity." ...
Bloggers, Law, Civil Rights and Privacy
in Latina Viva, on January 23, 2007
...Slashdot:
Lawrence Person writes "The attempt to require political bloggers to register as lobbyists previously reported by Slashdot has been stripped out of the lobbying reform bill .&quo...
Suits Changing Music
in Digital Music - The Future, on January 16, 2007
...panies' descent into oblivion for the same reasons -- the inclination to invest in lawsuits and lobbyists instead of looking toward the future and investing in creativity." ...
The etiquette of baksheesh
in Sox First, on January 6, 2007
...brown paper bag, but the market-distorting effects can be the same. Witness the enmeshed network of lobbyists, corporate-controlled thinktanks, party machinery and personal trafficking in favours that...
Bribery International
in Sox First, on January 4, 2007
... voting today on ethics rules that will strengthen the bans on privately financed trips, gifts from lobbyists and travel on corporate jets. Also expect greater public disclosure of targeted special in...
Private equity starts to lobby
in Sox First, on December 29, 2006
private equity firms have joined forces to create a lobby group. The press release says the new Private Equity Council will educate policy-makers about the groups. Yeah right. That's code for heading off regulation. US regulators and the Financial Services Authority in Britain are...
Excess all areas on Wall Street
in Sox First, on December 25, 2006
...be highly corrupt. There's an arrow of causation that runs from diverging income trends to Jack Abramoff and the K Street project. And I'm with Alan Greenspan, who - surprisingly, given his li...
Hedge funds, politicians and insider trading
in Sox First, on December 8, 2006
...cians and the politically connected, reports The Wall Street Journal . The hedge funds are hiring lobbyists for their so-called "political intelligence units" to pick up market-moving info...
Spitzer slams SOX changes
in Sox First, on November 29, 2006
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New York governor-elect Eliot Spitzer has attacked members of the Bush administration and business lobbyists for trying to roll back Sarbanes-Oxley. In an interview with the Financial Times , Spi...
The Skilling sentence: response and analysis
in Sox First, on October 25, 2006
...ss three years for betraying voters by accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal gifts from lobbyists (despite the criminal conviction, Ney will be able to collect his Congressional pension of...
Afghanistan, Inc.
in Sox First, on October 12, 2006
Back in August, I did a blog entry on the court decision to set aside the conviction of contractor Custer Battles, the first corporate fraud case to emerge from mess that's Iraq. At the time, I said it would send a signal to the other contractors who have been raking in big profits from a...
NEW LOW FOR TOM DELAY AND REALITY TV
in The Celebrities Weblog, on September 10, 2006
... , is under FBI investigation for involvement with the former D.C. lobbyist, now common felon, Jack Abramoff.
Gee, maybe Mrs. DeLay isn't a devotee of Mr. DeLay's morals and values mind-set, ...
Senator Frist Still Pushing Anti-Online Gambling Bill
in The Gambling Weblog, on September 6, 2006
...bill, despite Frist wanting a unanimous response from both parties. The Senate has seen a number of lobbyists opposing the bill and there are reports that both Republicans and Democrats have placed &#...
Farewell Joe Lieberman, Enron Democrat
in Sox First, on August 11, 2006
...tence. Even the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, was pressured by lobbyists and lawmakers until he dropped away. Levitt later described it as his greatest single regr...
Abuse of Whose Power
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 28, 2006
...estruction, eroding Civil Rights and obscene profits. No wonder media corporations and their lobbyists want to control what you can say and do with media. The MPAA's latest video against fi...
Abuse of Whose Power
in P2P File Sharing, on July 28, 2006
...estruction, eroding Civil Rights and obscene profits. No wonder media corporations and their lobbyists want to control what you can say and do with media. The MPAA's latest video against fi...
US House Passes Anti-Online Gambling Bill
in The Gambling Weblog, on July 11, 2006
...n for the outcome was a way of ridding Congress of the 'spectre' of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff who was influential in getting a previous online gambling bill killed.
Amusingly, Abramof...
No 404 exemptions: Cox
in Sox First, on April 25, 2006
...ay to make this work. There seems to be lacking a framework applicable to smaller companies." Lobbyists pushing for exemptions would say Cox is Jumping the gun. But whichever way you look...
Wi-Fi Battle in the Big Easy
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 23, 2006
...data, since about a third of the city still lacks even basic phone service.
But telecommunication lobbyists are trying to shut down the network -- and Meffert says he expects the state legislature t...
Help Save The Internet
in Internet Poker, on March 21, 2006
...ould signal that Congress is "purging itself" of the influence of infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, however, more shrewd observers have noted the opposite. When Mr. Abramoff scuttled an attem...
US Bill to Ban Internet Gambling - Backlash Begins
in The Gambling Weblog, on March 16, 2006
...s also suspicious that this is a reaction to the current scandal concerning disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff - who used to work to prevent any potential online gambling bill. He believes its a persona...
Immigration Law Expert Identifies Major Flaw in Newly Passed Mail Order Bride Law Called IMBRA
in The Dating Weblog, on March 15, 2006
...PR WEB -- Mar 13 -- Lobbyists for the big Internet dating mega-sites succeeded in persuading the proponents of the new mail order bride law, "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act&q...
IS TERRY HATCHER GEORGIE'S GIRL?
in The Celebrities Weblog, on January 22, 2006
...some choice comments during the Golden Globe Awards about disgraced Washington lobbyist/felon Jack Abramoff.
His remarks about Abramoff's parent' s choice of the first name, "Jack,&qu...
Can Tech Firms Stop RFID Backlash?
in The RFID Weblog, on July 1, 2005
...Beltway functions. But they are a rarity, and it is an expensive conversation to join -- Washington lobbyists sell their services for a high price.
Trade organizations such as the Semiconductor Indus...
Kelo Case Clips Liberty
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 27, 2005
...l state of affairs -- either in open Elections and legislation or closed-doors deals between lobbyists and politicians. It means no one's property is truly secure. ...
Credit Card Minimums Set To Rise
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 21, 2005
...t just fall off the turnip truck. They realize the impact this change will have and mobilized their lobbyists to push through the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. It ...
Post Enron Regulations - The Good and the Bad
in Businesspundit, on June 8, 2005
... be over. For better and worse, it isn't.
The proof can be found in Washington, where business lobbyists have decided not to push for even modest revisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley law. Why? Because...
Dallas Man Behind Computer Dating Bill
in The Dating Weblog, on May 2, 2005
...to advance his bill for criminal-background checks, Mr. Vest
notes that his opponents spend more on lobbyists, and donate more to
politicians, than he does. Mr. Vest founded True.com in 2003, after s...
Ease in rules aids distance education
in The Online Universities Weblog, on April 16, 2005
...bandonment of financial aid restrictions on distance education, a change that many higher education lobbyists oppose. More at Market Knowledge ....
Outsourcing? What About Innovation?
in Businesspundit, on April 7, 2004
... to innovate. So a veil of discretion is masking some of India's R&D achievements. Industry lobbyists are playing down this aspect of India's success. Some multinationals, such as IBM, are...
California Governor Game Show?
in Businesspundit, on August 13, 2003
...tants will battle it out in challenges that may include an obstacle course where they have to dodge lobbyists with briefcases of money.
The winner will be chosen by an online viewers' vote...
Can't Buy Congress
in Businesspundit, on August 1, 2003
...According to this , lobbyists and special interest groups don't get what they pay for, at least not at the candidate level.
Contrary to popular belief and typical media portrayals, big c...
The Unlawful Enforcement Gambling Act, Jack Abramoff and the Lobbyists
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 10, 2006
... its ramifications is beginning to seep into mainstream media and the general public.
But was Jack Abramoff one of the reasons it got passed in the first place?
An interesting theory as to how and w... ...lull in interest during 2005. When the Abramoff scandal erupted, it was perfect timing for pro-bill lobbyists to come back to the forefront.
However, the bill was still not expected to make it throug...
SOX for Government
in Sox First, on January 30, 2006
...lling on the White House to come clean on information surrounding disgraced influence peddler Jack Abramoff , former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt Jr says it's time to introduce Sarbanes-Oxley-type... ...ependence are just a start. What's really needed is a change in the culture that has given lobbyists such power and succour. As with the disgraced corporations of recent years, it boils down ...