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 [...]
A November 4 article in the New England Journal of Medicine compared U.S. public opinion about the health care overhaul effort during the Clinton Administration and the current one that the Obama Administration has championed. The results are that the pattern of public opinion is similiar today to what it was in the early ’90s, [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post on this week’s healthcare debate in Congress, House Republicans indicated they would offer their own bill as an alternative. It looks like they have come through on this promise.
The Associated Press, which was provided a draft of the bill, reported that the plan is “much shorter and focuses [...]
According to a just-released study by watchdog groups OMB Watch and the Center for Responsive Politics, there was an unusually high surge of lobbyists who terminated their legal status as lobbyists during the second quarter of 2009. The question everyone will be asking, of course, is why? The second question will be: did President Obama, [...]
Since Congress returned from its August recess, healthcare reform has dominated its agenda. Various congressional committees have debated – often contentiously – numerous legislative proposals to reform the system. Each proposal has sought to answer the ultimate question: how do you reform the current healthcare system to improve the quality of care, increase access for [...]
As with every other White House – and most public officials, for the matter – the Obama White House has a problem with the media. Or, to be more specific, certain segments of the media – especially Fox News – that are sharply critical of the White House.
And as with every other, those in charge [...]
Town hall meetings are among the bread-and-butter tools public officials use to get a real-time sense of their constituents’ thinking and to raise their profiles. New technologies are transforming the traditional town hall, and they are yielding surprisingly good results for constituents and public officials alike.
That’s the conclusion of a new study by the Congressional [...]
In the last 15 or 20 years especially, it has been the practice of some politicians to accuse their opponents of being overly driven by polling data — as if the accused were cynical suck-ups with no minds of their own. I’ve never understood why anyone would think that charge has any salience when 1) [...]
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 [...]
A new study released on Monday by the University of California, Berkeley held exciting news for the burgeoning electric car market: electric car sales could jump to 86 percent of U.S. light vehicle sales in 2030 if consumers don’t have to buy their batteries themselves.
Considering that auto emissions are one of the largest contributors of [...]
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