Some environmental groups see a silver lining in the $700 billion financial bailout that is stalled in Congress, asserting the eye-popping price tag could help derail the development of another costly investment: nuclear energy.

A new Internet ad …

The National Football League has hired a quarterback for its lobbying operation: Jeff Miller, staff director for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee.

Miller’s new role as vice president of government relations and public policy should provide a huge …

K Street is seeing green in the sweeping $700 billion financial bailout.

Already, lobbyists are using the rescue plan to drum up business from financial services companies fearing a regulatory push by Congress and the new administration. …

Months after the Armed Services committees drew up legislation directing a half-trillion dollars in national spending, the squeeze is on to pass the final authorization bill this session even as Congress is consumed with the nation’s crumbling economy.

The …

Still flying high after the White House

Technology, aviation and the military have always appealed to Joe Hagin. As White House deputy chief of staff — he stepped down in July — Hagin oversaw, among other things, the White …

This was the week the hedge funds ate Wall Street.

Even as the storied financial names vanish — Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns — they’re being quietly replaced by less familiar ones: Cerberus Capital Management, Citadel …

The defense aerospace industry is preparing itself for two very different futures: one in which the Pentagon invests heavily in modernizing the Air Force and another in which the defense dollars dry up.

Bogged down with wars in …

The House has made it veto-proof clear: The controversial pilot program allowing big Mexican trucks to cross the U.S. border and travel into the country must end.

The Senate has yet to act, though. And Mexico and its …

The chemical industry lobby is gearing up to fend off a broad legislative overhaul that marks a significant shift in the way that chemicals are regulated in America.

The push for chemical reform comes after this summer’s revamping …

Democrats have all but pushed coal out of the clean energy debates, but the coal lobby might have found a new tap into the U.S. Treasury: the Pentagon.

The Defense Authorization Bill now being debated in the Senate includes …