Lobbying group musters support to oppose restrictions
- May 21, 2009 |
- hemmer
With the end of the Obama administrations 60-day review of strict new lobbying regulations, the American League of Lobbyists is proceeding with a counterattack. Over the last few months, Dave Wenhold, president of ALL and co-founder of the lobbying firm Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies, helped create the Coalition to Protect the Right to Petition, a group pushing the administration to rescind restrictions ordered in President Obamas March 20 memorandum prohibiting government officials from speaking with registered lobbyists about stimulus funds. In a White House blog entry after the memo, Norm Eisen, the administrations special counsel to the president for ethics and… Read More