At the federal level, lobbying expenditures for states, localities and their associations have remained flat the past three years after peaking at $95.7 million in 2009, according to the Center ...

The influence of lobbying, particularly on legislation affecting financial services regulation, is difficult to quantify or separate from the general trend to the right in U.S. politics from 1980 ...

Comcast noted that it files quarterly reports with Congress about its federal lobbying activities and that it follows state disclosure laws. Friends Fiduciary countered that public availability of ...

Stories of lobbying often conjure up images of well-heeled lobbyists roaming the halls of Congress. But as reports of Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s globe-trotting fundraising trips this fall ...

Lobbying includes attempting to influence the decisions of the Bundestag, its Members, and subdivisions as well as the Chancellor, federal department heads, and state secretaries.

In 2013, reported lobbying spending hit a five year low, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, falling to $3.24 billion from the previous record of high of $3.55 billion in 2010.

Quarterly lobbying reports show tech%27s leading role in immigration debate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg funding pro-immigration ad push Traditional immigration advocates swamped by tech%27s ...