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April 27, 2023
Federal lobbying spending tops $1 billion in first quarter of 2023
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The federal budget and appropriations was the most lobbied issue as Congress grappled with the looming debt ceiling crisis, and players in the health sector, which spent more money on federal lobbying last quarter than any other sector, fought to keep cuts to Medicaid off the bargaining table.
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Big Tech lobbying on AI regulation as industry races to harness ChatGPT popularity
As the technology industry races to create tools harnessing generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Big Tech companies also rushed to K Street to weigh in on potential regulation of the novel technologies.
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“Revolving door” lobbyists help defense contractors get off to “strong” start in 2023
The Department of Defense’s five biggest contractors — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman — all reported “strong” first quarter earnings. All but Boeing spent less on federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2023 than in recent years.
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According to a recent a report from the Associated Press, [[link removed]] the Federal Reserve blamed the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on poor management, watered-down regulations and lax oversight by its own staffers, and said the industry needs stricter policing on multiple fronts to prevent future bank failures.
An OpenSecrets analysis shows that Silicon Valley Bank spent over $2 million since 2009 to hire “revolving door” lobbyists who flexed their influence to weaken federal regulations. Now, the Federal Reserve says those weak regulations are responsible for the banks historic failure.
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Carbon tech captures Washington (New York Times) [[link removed]]
The oil and gas industry spent more than $124 million on federal lobbying in 2022, according to the watchdog group OpenSecrets, with a big area of focus being subsidies for carbon capture.
The low cost (for a rich person) of sponsoring a Supreme Court justice (The Washington Post) [[link removed]]
Open Secrets reports that Crow has given more than $7.6 million to federal candidates for office, almost all of it to Republicans. He also donates to various other conservative causes and institutions.
Biden re-elect a new test for record-breaking small-dollar operation (NBC News) [[link removed]]
Biden was hardly a small-dollar giant when he launched his 2020 run. With Biden returning to politics after leaving office in 2017, and running as the principal candidate for the first time since 2008, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders outpaced the field among small donors during the Democratic primary, per an analysis from OpenSecrets.
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