Lobbyist, Fed Lawyer Share Vacation Home
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.
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Investor's Business Daily - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Martin Gruenberg broadly endorsed a House Dem bill that would change how home loans are made, securitized and supervised. He backed a provision to impose some liability on investors that buy mortgages. Fed Gov. Randall Krosner also was generally favorable. But the Mortgage Bankers Association cited "fundamental flaws." Bankers are upset the reforms will impose tougher federal rules while not pre-empting separate state laws.
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Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell helped arrange more than $11 million in federal money in the past year for projects benefiting clients of a lobbyist who is advising her re-election campaign and still owes her money from a personal loan.
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WASHINGTON - Going against conventional wisdom, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in an election year. And it is Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, a Republican, who is leading the charge even though an incumbent Republican in the White House is facing voter unrest about the state of the economy...
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Graham Gund has been busy creating a headquarters for the National Association of Realtors in Washington, D.C., dealing with a lawsuit involving his part-ownership of many of the buildings in the South End loft district known as SoWa, and settling into the Cambridge house that he built -- tore down -- and built again.
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Small, private events will give lobbyists a chance to build the relationships essential to advancing their clients' interests.
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By Matthew Mosk, Washington Post Staff Writer  In a political fundraising world traditionally dominated by lobbyists and wealthy business executives, small-dollar donor Hrishi Karthikeyan found a way to make his own splash, right from his desk.
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A Congressional report finds hundreds of contacts between White House officials and the lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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A New Jersey congressman whose father spent six years caring for his ailing wife wanted other families in similar situations to have someplace to turn when a primary caregiver needs a break.
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The chairman of the Federal Reserve urged Congress to bolster regulation of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.
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By Jeannine Aversa, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 4--WASHINGTON -- Ben Bernanke shoots hoops. Susan Schmidt Bies hits the links and Donald Kohn rides his bike to work on sunny days.   Sound like ordinary people? Yes, but these aren't regular Joes.
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Lobby Congress for a personal earmark for Dad to buy, say, a National Center for the Improvement of his Golf Swing.
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Government lawyers are renewing their push to rein in groups like those spending millions on ads and voter outreach in the presidential race.
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A senior House Democrat warned the Federal Reserve on Wednesday to protect consumers against unfair banking and mortgage practices or Congress will give that power to another federal agency.
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Chuck Knoblauch came to Congress toting his toddler Friday, and the former major leaguer met for about 1 1/2 hours with lawyers from a House committee investigating drug use in baseball.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (CBS.MW) -- While families come to Yellowstone to look at wild animals, economists come every August to look at Federal Reserve officials.