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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Rolling around the capital in a dark-green trolley Wednesday morning, a troupe of actors dressed as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross visited three D.C. fund-raising hotspots to protest special interests and crusade for the Fair Elections Now Act, a bill that would establish a public funding system for House and Senate elections and limit outside sources of cash for congressional campaigns. "We cast off the yoke of British tyranny, and today we are called on again to cast off the yoke of British Petroleum," an actor playing Thomas Jefferson said outside the ...
The White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
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