Here’s a dispatch from Bill Black, who oversees Fleishman-Hillard’s global public affairs practice (and who is traveling as I write this), on what the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday on Citizens United v. FEC might mean for companies’ and unions’ public affairs activities. He writes:
I am just returning from the annual National Grassroots Conference of [...]
After an intense campaign by the lobbying community in Washington, the Obama Administration has relaxed its very strict restrictions on lobbyists’ interactions with agencies issuing money from the stimulus program designed to revive the economy. The original proposal would have required every communication to executive agencies be in writing and available to the public.
According to [...]
The Food Safety Law of China is scheduled to go into effect on June 1, 2009. For the first time in Chinese legal history, the new Law specifically states that food companies are the first party of responsibility in the food safety chain, unequivocally stipulating that strict compliance with the law is the top priority [...]
One of the dominant themes of Barack Obama’s campaign for President last year was the need to reduce the influence of lobbyists on politics and policy. So it has been no surprise that as President he has issued a number of rules that follow through on that same theme – sometimes reinforcing the public’s (unfair) [...]
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