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Executive Branch Lobbying Restrictions: A Chance For Common Ground?

By James A. Kahl, Lawrence H. Norton, Gregg P. Skall

The next chapter in the dispute over the President's March 20 memorandum restricting lobbyists' communications with executive branch officials is likely to begin soon when OMB Director Orszag reports to the President after a 60-day study period. The memorandum has received much criticism, and threats of legal action, from both the private sector and public-interest lobbying communities. (See Political GPS, March 27 and April 16, 2009). But, as we discuss below, a frontal assault on the memorandu read more

Full post as published by Political GPS: Womble Carlyle Political Law on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).