The price of persuasion went down in 2012, the second consecutive year of declining spending on lobbying, according to figures released today by the Center for Responsive Politics. Total spending to try to influence Congress, the White House and federal...
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The Google Inc. logo in Washington.
Price of Persuasion Down Year to Year
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District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray in this file photo.
Washington’s Mayor Sees Bright Side
Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, who is under investigation for allegations of misusing campaign funds, was upbeat and optimistic about his tenure over lunch at the Georgetown Ritz Carlton. Gray was the guest and interview subject of Washingtonian editor-at-large Carol Joynt...
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A Washington, D.C. 'TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION' license plate on Vice President Joseph Biden's limousine.
Washington Statehood: ‘New Columbia’
Taxation without representation. It’s a storied complaint in American history. In Washington, D.C., it’s a license plate. For all the failures of Washingtonians to gain recognition from the Congress that operates in their own home town, a long-denied bid for...
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Onlookers wait for President Barack Obama along the parade route during the inauguration on Jan. 21, 2013.
Lobbyists Have Ball at Inauguration
For some of Washington’s lawyer-lobbying firms, a presidential inauguration offers a once-in-four-years opportunity to open their doors to clients and others in Washington. Holland & Knight LLP, which paid almost $13.4 million to lobby during the first nine months of...
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Al Gore in Davis Guggenheim's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
Gore Warms to Obama Climate Talk
Al Gore liked what he heard today. The former vice president wrote a short entry on his blog thanking President Barack Obama for his inaugural address mention of climate change. “Obama spoke powerfully and eloquently about the critical importance of...
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The 57th inauguration of an American president.
Obama: ‘The Power to Set This Country’s Course’
President Barack Obama, rallying an aspiring post-war nation with a call for harmony at home, infused his inaugural address with soft-pedaled challenges for political adversaries and a strong reaffirmation of his party’s causes in his final term. “The American people...
Read more »Obama, Biden: Take Two
On a chilly platform before the U.S. Capitol today, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. swore-in President Barack Obama for a second term, in a replay of the actual oath administered yesterday in the Blue Room of the White House. In...
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Obama's tweets.
Obama Tweets from Church: ‘Let’s Go’
It’s said that the Twitter messages actually thumbed by President Barack Obama @BarackObama are signed `BO.’ The one this morning came from St. John’s, the church across Lafayette Park from the White House, where the first family went this morning...
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President Barack Obama and partners, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Obama 2.0: ‘Shoulders to the Wheel of History’
At the National Building Museum, one of Washington’s great public spaces, a freshly inaugurated President Barack Obama greeted supporters at the start of his second term last night, at one of many receptions and balls surrounding today’s official ceremony on...
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President Barack Obama took his oath of office in the Blue Room of the White House, with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding and First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha watching.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 57
That’s how many presidential inaugurations will have been held after today’s public ceremony for President Barack Obama, starting his second term. Obama took the oath of office yesterday, per the 20th Amendment. Because yesterday was a Sunday, the inaugural ceremony...
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