The Justice Department is asking if Republican Congressman Curt Weldon helped his daughter obtain contracts for her lobbying firm.
He's also president of The Duberstein Group, a lobbying firm in Washington, DC.
Republicans are likely to question Daschle's recent work for a Washington lobbying firm.
He was working out of the offices of The Raben Group, a Washington lobbying firm where he keeps an office.
During Iraq they dummied up criticizing might be bad for the lobbying firm.
Gill later made an unsuccessful run as a Republican candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in 2007 and began a lobbying firm, Sapentia.
He said he would recommend that anyone leaving government employment should wait for at least two years before being able to join a lobbying firm.
And we've also got from Alexandria, Virginia, Ron Christie, vice president of the lobbying firm DC Navigators and former special assistant to President George W. Bush.
In 1995, supporters of gambling in Virginia hired 48 lobbyists, from nearly every lobbying firm in the state capital, in a bid to legalise riverboat casinos.
Abramoff is also a close friend of Tom DeLay's, and Democrats are now alleging Abramoff's lobbying firm worked with another key Republican: Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings.
Even the notoriously apolitical Apple weighed in on the measure, retaining the lobbying firm of Fierce, Isakowitz and Blalock in Washington, DC to cozy up to Congress.
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"Clearly there are going to be strings on the money that were not there before, " says Peter Peyser, head of the lobbying firm Blank Rome Government Relations in Washington.
Instead, subtler forms of capture and "legal corruption" exist: an expectation of a future job for a regulator in a lobbying firm, or a campaign contribution with strings attached.
The respected K Street lobbying firm pitching us gave us chapter and verse on how you can rent congressmen and senators to gain multi-million dollar earmarks, complete with names and price lists.
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"You really want to cool off as much of the opposition as you can, " says Julius Hobson, a senior policy analyst and health care policy expert at the law and lobbying firm Bryan Cave.
"It's all about them, and that's been the case all along, " says Julius Hobson, a lobbyist and health care specialist at the law and lobbying firm Bryan Cave in Washington, of the Senate panel.
California Republican John Doolittle is wrapped up in the Abramoff affair, not only because he worked closely with the lobbyist and took donations from him, but because Abramoff's lobbying firm employed Doolittle's wife (as well as DeLay's).
Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.
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Ever the caring hubby, he's looking out for his wife's bottom line, wondering aloud to his top staffer "if there is a play here, with these guys, with her" to work for a lobbying firm in Washington or New York at a better salary.
During his long campaign to clear his name from allegations of doping, Lance Armstrong hired a Washington lobbying firm in 2010 to raise concerns about the agent leading a federal criminal investigation into his former cycling team, according to an official at the firm.
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In 2007, Trent Lott, a Republican leader in the Senate less than a year into his fourth term, abruptly resigned and formed a lobbying firm with former Senator John Breaux, just a few weeks before a new law took effect requiring a two-year waiting period between serving and lobbying.
One Republican congressional aide who received the e-mails this week expressed surprise that a lobbying firm with such close ties to the White House would attack al-Maliki at such a pivotal time on the debate over the war, just weeks before Bush provides a progress report to the nation.
The lobbying firm boasts the services of two onetime foreign policy hands of President Bush: Ambassador Robert Blackwill, the former deputy national security adviser who was Bush's envoy to Iraq and helped form Allawi's interim government in 2004, and Philip Zelikow, former counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Telecel eventually won a new licence, but because its managers know more about lobbying than about running a telephone firm, it poses little threat to Econet.
Henick added that beyond the e-mails, the firm will also be directly lobbying members of the "U.S. government, Congress, the media and opinion leaders" on behalf of Allawi.
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