After Social Security Corruption- January 26, 2006 Fresh off its success in raising a grass-roots wave of public opposition that helped block President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security, Americans United to Protect Social Security has redefined itself.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402430_xml/~3/24... A Power Lunch- January 19, 2006 Yes, that was attorney general-turned-consultant John Ashcroft having lunch at the posh Hay-Adams the other day with congressman-turned-trade association chieftain Billy Tauzin .http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402430_xml/~3/24... Trade Group's Quick Advice: Slow Down- January 12, 2006 With lawmakers rushing out new plans for cleaning up their relations with lobbyists in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal, there's one trade group that would like a larger role in the deliberations. Indeed, it would like members of Congress to take a collective big breath and slow down a bit.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402430_xml/~3/24... A Free-Speech Case Creates Unusual Allies- January 5, 2006 Coalitions often gather up strange bedfellows when lobbying Congress on this tax or that public policy. But perhaps there are no stranger bedfellows than the antiabortion Wisconsin Right to Life group and the liberal Alliance for Justice, which are teaming up to try to persuade the Supreme Court to rule against a provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402430_xml/~3/24... |