lobbying
The Justice Department arrested Tom Barrack, the chair of ex-President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, on charges of influencing U.S. politics on behalf of a foreign power.
The effort included helping draft a letter in which Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) pushed back against the administration's pause on new oil and gas leasing.
Tom Reed, a Republican from western New York, is accused of rubbing a female lobbyist’s back and unhooking her bra without her consent at a 2017 networking event.
The oil giant belonged to one group that pushed for a rule designed to preempt banks' policies against lending for Arctic drilling and coal mining.
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President Donald Trump revoked one of his first executive orders in one of his final acts of office.
The lobbying giant raked in cash from both U.S. oil interests and Saudi Arabia, the nation that launched an oil war that sent fossil fuel prices tumbling.
Ken Salazar's "lucrative spin through the revolving door" is reminiscent of the pay-to-play system that has grown under President Donald Trump.
A lobbyist brags about getting dozens of lawmakers to sing his industry's tune.
But the industry’s political lobbying during the pandemic has been a smashing success.
One of the world's most infamous corrupt lobbyists was charged in yet another corrupt lobbying scheme.