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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg willingly accepts contributions from Washington lobbyists, despite a growing number of Democratic candidates who have vowed not to do so.

The truth is that Ilhan Omar is quite happy to accept support from lobbyists and advocacy organizations — especially left-wing and anti-Israel ones.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is ramping up her efforts ahead of a possible 2020 presidential race by putting policies and people in place.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) became the number one recipient of lobbyists’ cash during the 2018 election cycle, according to new data.

In a Saturday morning tweet, President Donald Trump wrote that the far-left Washington Post should register as a lobbyist for the online mega-retailer Amazon.

Tech giant Amazon has dumped two top D.C. lobbying powerhouses, Akin Gump and Patton Boggs, to replace them with two lobbyists who left the now-defunct Podesta Group in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe ending the organization.

Facebook is reportedly going on a hiring spree in the Swamp as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg gets ready to testify before Congress.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent cease and desist letters this week to three public school districts over advocacy campaigns that violate the state’s education and election codes as “unlawful electioneering.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion Wednesday that voter registration tactics targeting teachers and eligible students of voting age violate the state Constitution and electioneering laws.

A Texas lawmaker called into question a voter registration campaign, encouraged by a third party advocacy group, which targets teachers and eligible students. He wants to know if the tactics they use violate the state’s Constitution.

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel is applauding California Republicans, who largely held the line on tax reform, voting to pass the House bill this week when party members from other high-tax blue states, like New York, did not.

Google and Facebook, along with other companies in Silicon Valley, spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress in the third quarter in response to fears of regulation, according to a report.

Senate Republicans released their bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, on Thursday, but even Republicans are complaining about what they say is the secrecy surrounding the crafting of the GOP health care plan, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer – hailed as the “chief swamp-drainer in the media” by SiriusXM host Alex Marlow – joined Breitbart News Daily Wednesday with a progress report on President Trump’s efforts to drain the “swamp” of Washington corruption.

President Donald Trump’s campaign promises already have convinced drug companies to lower prices and increase transparency.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – A leading transparency watchdog on Tuesday urged the EU to crack down on the “revolving door” of former officials joining lobbying groups.

Jack Abramoff, author of Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist, brought his uniquely informed perspective on President-elect Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest to Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence has banished all lobbyists from Donald Trump’s transition team, reassuring critics who question the president-elect’s promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C.

During an interview with CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl, Donald Trump admitted that he did have lobbyists on his team, but explained that it was the current state of the culture in Washington D.C.

The press is abuzz with the left-wing conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is secretly a Russian agent, while ignoring Clinton’s Russia ties.

The United States Department of Justice has asked for a federal court order to compel Facebook Inc. to provide the IRS with documents relating to undervaluing global assets transferred to its Irish holding company in a scheme to slash its tax rate to 3.5 percent.

Top lobbyists in Washington, D.C. will hold a fundraising prep event for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump ahead of the general election.

Throughout the past year, several op-eds appearing in California publications promoted the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, but the Huffington Post is reporting that several of those op-eds use identical language from lobbyists who were retained by foreign governments, specifically Japan, to push support for the controversial trade agreement in the United States.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sarcastically thanked “the special interests and the lobbyists” for driving his numbers up at a press conference in Jupiter, FL on Tuesday. Trump began by saying, “One of the things I’m most happy about is that

After a less-than-impressive third quarter of fundraising, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is holding a fundraiser on Capitol Hill. The guest list includes lobbyists, bundlers and members of Congress, and the event is expected to raise roughly $200,000 for Rubio’s presidential campaign.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will accept donations for his 2016 campaign but with no strings attached.

Donald Trump pivots to a message position himself against cronyism–that the DC establishment and its lobbyists can’t tempt him with money.

Google, Inc. is complaining about what it says are unfair media reports regarding the company’s business practices, including lobbying.

The increased prominence of a Texas State Representative’s daughter as a lobbyist on education issues is raising questions about the propriety of him serving as chair of the House Public Education Committee.

Last February, the New York Times editorial writer Joe Nocera raged against “The Bitcoin Blasphemy,” which he claimed was libertarian “sacrilege” since it is “unconnected to any currency or any government.” But try as they might, the leftist thought police at the Times that see bitcoin as an existential threat to “full faith” in the dollar and the U.S. government are failing.