R&R and Gallatin Join in D.C.

R&R Partners and Gallatin Public Affairs have shared a Constitution Avenue office for years. Now they’ll share a name.

Until Jan. 1, both companies operated as partners within the WestNet Alliance …

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of one of the most powerful congressional committees, is under fire and under investigation. What’s a lobbyist with business before his House Ways and Means Committee to do?

When a Capitol Hill giant …

Wall Street, long one of the most powerful industries in Washington, is throwing in the towel.

Financial executives have given up the idea that they can fight new Washington regulations, and their representatives on K Street instead are desperately …

Two prominent music trade groups announced Wednesday they’re teaming up to give music artists a stronger voice in Washington. 

The Recording Academy and the non-profit Recording Artists’ Coalition will now work together in a bid to increase congressional advocacy …

As national finance director for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid, Jonathan Mantz got out-fundraised by Barack Obama’s campaign. But now, as Mantz starts his new job at BGR Group, he’s determined not to be out-lobbied.

“The lessons are …

The $775 billion economic stimulus plan being cobbled together by President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could pump more than $100 billion into the health care sector, modernizing its delivery system and providing care to those who lost their health …

Republicans normally have never seen a tax cut they didn’t love — but that doesn’t seem to be the case with the economic package being prepared by President-elect Barack Obama.

Key GOP members on the Hill are responding …

Could the Inauguration of Barack Obama launch a renewal of the labor movement?

That’s the hope of labor leaders who have been monitoring Cabinet appointments and delivering legislative and regulatory wish lists to the Obama transition teams. …

Utah Lawmaker Fills Up His Office 

Jason Chaffetz, the cot-toting new Republican congressman from Utah, has chosen a few of the poor saps who may be smelling his smelly socks on Capitol Hill. 

Well, actually, Chaffetz has said …

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is starting to collect political intelligence it could use to sway lawmakers and special interest groups in the upcoming health care reform debate.

With more than 8,500 health care meetings scheduled across the …