The Washington Inquisitor
Lobbying
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K Street Tracker: a $750,000 False Claims Act retainer and a Turkish shipyard’s Navy push top the new filings
Early third-quarter lobbying reports and new foreign-agent filings show who is paying most for Washington help this fall: a Florida client focused on False Claims Act enforcement, dissident Korea Zinc shareholders, an…
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Lame-duck Congress faces a Dec. 11 funding deadline, with defense and permitting bills in the queue
Senators return Nov. 9 to a permitting vote, an unfinished defense bill and a government funding deadline that cannot slip. Here is what is pending and what has to move first.
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New foreign agents: Kirchner, Tirana’s detained mayor, Yemen and an Afghan movement hire Washington help
Fresh FARA filings show a $110,000-a-month retainer for Yemen’s embassy, interview pitches to the Times and Bloomberg for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and a Penn Station hello with Rep. Ryan Zinke.
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Venezuela’s reopening brings a new wave of clients to Ballard Partners, Washington’s top-earning lobby firm
A Caracas oil-services firm, an Argentine contractor and the owners of an agribusiness Chávez seized have hired Ballard Partners as Treasury licenses Venezuela business one company at a time.