Though it largely flies under the radar, lobbying efforts to sway executive branch decisions are an important, lucrative and growing aspect of Frankfort. Lobbyists collected around $9.5 million over ...

Gary Bass and Rick Cohen have both written in your pages about the impact of the scandal involving the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and suggested ways to reduce wrongdoing by paid lobbyists (“Let’s Change ...

Charitable organizations often find themselves in the precarious position of determining the difference between lobbying, education and advocacy. This issue revolves primarily around the determination ...

During the 2025 legislative session, which wraps up Sunday, lobbyists crowded outside the wings of the state House and Senate in Olympia. They chilled under blossoming cherry trees by the Territorial ...

In 2024, lobbying groups spent an all-time high of $4.4 billion on influencing federal policy. This continues an upward trend that began in 2016. With increases in lobby dollars, it's important to ...

I’m old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill. I also remember when half the members of Congress who retired got lucrative lobbying jobs taking their old chums out for meals ...

Momentum to eliminate government waste is sweeping the nation — from Washington’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to parallel initiatives in Texas. In that spirit, we recently met to ...

It’s been nearly three months since the Ethics Commission took down its database that tracks critical parts of our legislative and election processes.

You may have heard that Paul Manafort was indicted today, for being a bad man in the Russia way. In the wake of Manafort’s indictment, prominent lobbyist Tony Podesta resigned from the Podesta Group, ...

Sen. Mayes Middleton is taking aim at local taxing entities' long-standing ability to hire lobbyists to help them navigate the Texas Legislature. The Republican state senator from Galveston recently ...

I’m old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill. I also remember when half the members of Congress who retired got lucrative lobbying jobs taking their old chums out for meals ...