Who Are You Calling Partisan?

Sticks and stones may break bones, but name-calling will always make headlines. So when a flack for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called a leading anti-earmark advocate a “partisan...

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March 6, 2009 in PMA | Permalink | User Comments (1)

PMA Scandal a Sore Point for Dems in 2010?

Will the PMA lobbying scandal will be an issue in the 2010 midterm elections? asks the Hill newspaper. For years, millions from PMA and its clients flowed to campaign coffers,...

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March 5, 2009 in PMA | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Down in Flames

Senators defeat Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) quixotic effort to banish $8.8 million in earmarks destined for clients of PMA Group, now under federal investigation and soon to be defunct. Coburn:...

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March 4, 2009 in PMA | Permalink | User Comments (4)

PMA Clients Were Big Givers

The cloud of money that surrounded the PMA Group lobbying firm was apparently bigger than many had thought. The lobby shop raided by the FBI last November had been credited...

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March 4, 2009 in PMA | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Raided Lobby Firm Still a Force on Capitol Hill

Even as news of the investigation into mega-lobby firm PMA Group grows, Democrats are fighting efforts to check the tarnished group’s influence. The FBI raided PMA’s offices last November, as...

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March 3, 2009 in PMA | Permalink | User Comments (7)