When Richard Gold, head of Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation practice group, recently met with the firm’s management to go over the year’s finances, he knew everyone would be pleased: The practice’s revenues were up between 12 percent and 15 percent from the year before, and its Washington public policy staff had [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 31, 2008
CNN Money: Baker Hughes CEO: Justice Dept Agreement Slows International Growth
Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) has taken a more “cautious” approach to international growth since settling a bribery investigation last year, Chief Executive
Chad Deaton said Wednesday. In April, Baker Hughes agreed to a $44 million settlement over potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Kazakhstan. The Houston oil field services company also agreed [...]
January 31, 2008
Washington Post: A Scramble for Edwards & Giuliani Fundraisers
When Democrat John Edwards and Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani abandoned their presidential bids yesterday, their exits marked the beginning of an open season on the supporters who had helped them raise a combined $100 million last year.
Edwards’s finance team splintered in a matter of hours, with both Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and [...]
January 31, 2008
USA Today: Lobbyists find more ways to bond with lawmakers
The quiet, tree-lined 400 block of New Jersey Avenue, with its expanse of Victorian houses in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, resembles many residential streets in this part of Washington.
Look closer during the cocktail hour while Congress is in session. Well-coiffed men and women mill about behind the grand windows, glasses in hand. [...]
January 31, 2008
Miami Herald: Zapata is cleared in ethics inquiry
A state ethics panel found that Rep. Juan C. Zapata did not abuse his position when he waged a one-man public-relations campaign against a nonprofit after he was kicked off the agency’s board.
Zapata, a Kendall Republican, was the founder and public face of the Colombian American Service Association until 2005, when other board members [...]
January 31, 2008
Politico.com: Suite Talk: Latest lobbying switcharoos
BURSON-MARSTELLER NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN
Chris Foster has been named the U.S. chairman of Burson-Marsteller’s health care practice.
This is Foster’s second tour with B-M. He first joined the firm in 1998 as a manager in the health care practice. Foster was hired to help build out a managed care capability for the firm before he moved on [...]
January 31, 2008
Politico.com: Kentucky saga is latest succession stunt
When rumor of his impending retirement surfaced last week, Republican Rep. Ron Lewis of Kentucky assured House leadership that he fully intended to run for reelection in 2008.
Still, with the state’s filing deadline for office fast approaching, suspicious National Republican Congressional Committee officials prepared a contingency plan just in case.
It’s a good thing, for Lewis [...]
January 31, 2008
CNN Wire: GOP challenges House Dems to join earmark reform effort
House Republicans challenged Democrats in a letter sent Friday night to Speaker Nancy Pelosi to join a bi-partisan effort to change the way members of congress “earmark” taxpayer money for special projects that benefit their districts or campaign contributors.The GOP’s House caucus approved the initiative — which calls for an immediate moratorium on earmarks while [...]
January 31, 2008
Orlando Sentinel: Mayfield Enters Race for Weldon Seat
State lawmaker Stan Mayfield of Vero Beach become the first Republican legislator to announce a run to replace U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Indialantic, who said last week that he would not seek an eighth term in Congress.
Mayfield, of Vero Beach, first was elected to Tallahassee in 2000 and must leave because of term limits. [...]
January 31, 2008
Bloomberg: Schwarzenegger Set to Endorse John McCain’s Presidential Bid
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will endorse John McCain’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination, less than a week before the most populous U.S. state holds its primary election. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, plans to announce his backing of McCain today in Los Angeles, [...]
