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Blue Dogs’ Bite Gets Stronger

June 23, 2008

Blue Dogs get ready: The ranks of obsequious lobbyists looking to curry favor — and contribute to your war chest — is set to explode.

A Resurgent Dogfight Over Tanker

June 23, 2008

Lawmakers and lobbyists are seizing on the recent firings of top Air Force officials and a new highly critical Government Accountability Office report to steer a multibillion-dollar tanker aircraft contract to the Pentagon’s largest weapons builder, Boeing Co.

K Street Files: Panic Mode

June 23, 2008

The new, dreaded lobbyist disclosure 203 forms have not yet been unveiled by the House or Senate, but that isn’t stopping the cottage industry of ethics experts from holding pricey seminars on how to fill out those soon-to-come forms.

K Street Lies in Wait for Next Year

June 16, 2008

With this summer’s dismal business backdrop — the final year of a lame-duck administration, a sagging economy and a raging election season on the horizon — K Street can hardly wait for 2009.

Six Indian Tribes Fight for Recognition

June 16, 2008

The peace treaties forged between Virginia’s Indian tribes and English settlers in the 17th century were so influential that tribal members in buckskin and feathers still deliver wild game and fish to the governor’s mansion in Richmond each Thanksgiving.

K Street Files: A Heady Brew

June 16, 2008

It may be a Belgian-Brazilian brewing company, but InBev is already aware of the political muscle it needs to secure support for its bid to buy St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos.