#lobbying — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lobbying, aggregated by home.social.
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Das zentrale Sprachrohr der Pharmaindustrie ist der Verband Interpharma, der mit der Organisation IG Biomedizinische Forschung und Innovation über einen direkten Draht in die gesundheitspolitische Kommission verfügt.
Interpharma beauftragt ausserdem Beratungsfirmen, die über Mandate der Pharmakonzerne verfügen und damit Interessen vertreten, die direkt gegen die geplante Rabattregelung laufen.
https://daten.lobbywatch.ch/de/organisation/288/INTERPHARMA
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Die Pharmaindustrie hat viel Einfluss in Bundesbern. Das hat damit zu tun, dass sie eine bedeutende Steuerzahlerin ist und über ein grosses Netzwerk im Parlament verfügt, wo sie mit über 100 Organisationen vertreten ist.
https://daten.lobbywatch.ch/de/lobbygruppe/1/Pharma
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Das Parlament wollte die Krankenkassenprämien senken. Eine einzige Massnahme hätte das geschafft. Jetzt liegt sie auf Eis – auf Druck der Pharmaindustrie.
https://lobbywatch.ch/die-pharmalobby-stoppt-die-kostenbremse/
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...vanno avanti le 'facce di bronzo' - perde la democrazia
https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/F-35-molte-reazioni-ma-nessuno-scossone--4076624.html
#CH #politica #VBS #armasuisse #lobbying #F35 #bugie #corruzione
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...vanno avanti le 'facce di bronzo' - perde la democrazia
https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/F-35-molte-reazioni-ma-nessuno-scossone--4076624.html
#CH #politica #VBS #armasuisse #lobbying #F35 #bugie #corruzione
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...vanno avanti le 'facce di bronzo' - perde la democrazia
https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/F-35-molte-reazioni-ma-nessuno-scossone--4076624.html
#CH #politica #VBS #armasuisse #lobbying #F35 #bugie #corruzione
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...vanno avanti le 'facce di bronzo' - perde la democrazia
https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/F-35-molte-reazioni-ma-nessuno-scossone--4076624.html
#CH #politica #VBS #armasuisse #lobbying #F35 #bugie #corruzione
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Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna PrendergastWith the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.
#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast
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I don’t think there was ever a time when money was not important in politics. The single most striking development in American politics is the extent to which money is so predominant that everything else including the public interest is insignificant.
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Interview (2006-10-09), “Who’s It Screw, and Who’s Doing the Screwing?” by Rosalind Alexander, Seattle WeeklyMore about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/85840/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #America #influence #lobbying #money #politicalinfluence #politics #publicinterest
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Dozens of defence insiders now lobbying for the industry, analysis shows
By Samantha DickNew analysis by Four Corners shows the scale of Canberra's revolving door, where former government officials accept lucrative jobs in lobbying or the defence industry.
#Lobbying #DefenceForces #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #Parliament #SamanthaDick
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"Il Chat Control non è stato creato per proteggere i bambini. È nato perché aziende come Meta o Google vogliono accedere ai nostri dati per profitto, e gli Stati vogliono espandere la sorveglianza di massa.” - Alexander Hanff, attivista per la privacy e sopravvissuto ad abusi sessuali infantili.
#chatcontrol #sorveglianza #ue #parlamento #lobbying #lobby #libertadistampa #libertàdiparola
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WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA
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« Un boom du lobbying à l'échelle locale » : enquête sur les stratégies d'influence territoriales des grandes entreprises
Des cabinets spécialistes en lobbying payé par les multinationales pour influencer les décisions démocratiques au niveau local, partout en France.
#Municipales2026 #lobbying #mafias
https://multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/le-lobbying-a-l-echelle-locale/un-boom-du-lobbying-a-l-echelle-locale-enquete-sur-les-strategies-d-influence -
The Bernhardt Group’s Lobbying for Antofagasta’s Copper and Nickel Mine on the Edge of the Boundary Waters, Q3 2025
The Bernhardt Group, the lobbying shop set up just down the street from the White House by Trump’s former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, is now the sole firm lobbying for Antofagasta’s Twin Metals project on the edge of the Boundary Waters (as I noted back in July). The Group’s third quarter disclosure reports income of $110,000 for lobbying on “mine leasing issues” on behalf of Twin Metals. That’s more than double The Bernhardt Group’s Twin Metals Q2 2025 income ($40K), and toward the high end of what other clients pay per quarter.
Bernhardt’s firm has been lobbying for the Twin Metals project in both the House and the Senate and at the White House, the Department of the Interior, and, notably, DOJ. (I am a little surprised that there is no mention here of the Department of Agriculture.) At DOJ, The Bernhardt Group was likely helping to devise and coordinate the legal strategy that saw the federal government do an about-face, join forces with Twin Metals, and get the case before the DC Circuit put on ice.
It’s worth reading this latest disclosure in light of a piece by Brendan Bordelon, Amanda Chu, and Caitlin Oprysko that appeared a couple of days ago in Politico, about the reduced influence of non-Trump affiliated lobbying firms and the concentration of lobbying in one place: the presidency. The article offers a K-Street perspective on Congress’ abdication, the destruction of the administrative state, and the rise of a corrupt personalist regime.
The president and a handful of lieutenants have seized full control over policies once considered the remit of Congress and experts at agencies, including hyperspecific issues like tariff rates, high-skilled visa fees and funding freezes. Trump’s gravitational pull has forced CEOs to act as their companies’ top lobbyists, plying the president with gifts and concessions to secure their policy priorities. [emphasis mine]
Let’s pause here for clarification. These policies were not just “once considered the remit of Congress and experts at agencies.” They are lawfully the remit of Congress, but Congress remains supine or, worse, bent over and taking it. Meanwhile, the administration is ridding itself of all those pesky experts at the agencies and conducting sloppy and unlawful “reviews” of its own, as the Department of Agriculture recently did with the Rainy River watershed withdrawal.
Politico puts it more politely than I ever could, but the thrust of the reporting here is no less troubling. As Sam Bagenstos remarked yesterday, “per [Politico], the lobbyists are basically treating Article I as dead.”
The new dynamic has transformed the business of Washington influence, shutting out many veteran lobbyists and excluding even longtime experts from the most important policy fights in Washington. With Congress and the agencies often sidelined, outside lobbying firms and in-house specialists — many with decades of policy experience and cross-party relationships — are declining in importance….
The legislative branch is losing importance as Republicans — in charge of both chambers — take their cues from the White House to a degree that’s unprecedented in modern politics.
“Congress has basically taken itself out of the equation,” said Rich Gold, a Democrat who heads lobbying and law firm Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation group. “There is a perception that Democrats have not fought back, and Republicans have basically ceded all their authority to the president.”
The same is true at federal agencies, which once operated more independently but are now closely responsive to the president himself.
From K Street’s point of view, there’s only one lever consistently worth pulling — and it sits in the Oval Office.
But rest assured: the lobbying world is adapting.
Despite the upheaval on K Street, Washington’s lobbying sector is on track to earn more money than in any year since 2010, adjusted for inflation — driven by corporations’ mix of enthusiasm and concern about what Trump is doing.
That revenue is flowing away from established firms with policy expertise and robust networks of cross-party contacts, and toward a handful of rising firms able to open the Oval Office door.
The Bernhardt Group is, of course, one such firm.
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#abdication #corruption #governmentCapture #governmentCollapse #kleptocracy #lobbying #personalistRegime #resourceHoarding #Water
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I only now read Georg Riekeles' excellent 2022 account of #BigTech's outrageous global #lobbying influence. While I don't agree with everything (e.g. his take on #liability and the #copyright debate), after 15 years in #EU #Brussels I'd say his long-read is frighteningly accurate.
Includes special mentions of @corporateeurope and other crucial civil society groups fighting back.
A must-read: https://medium.com/@georg.riekeles/teknopolis-7cbe48a5fcf2
#TrackingFreeAds #DigitalServicesAct #DigitalMarketsAct #AIAct
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David Bernhardt Sets Up His Own Shop to Lobby (indirectly) For Twin Metals
I missed this June Politico story about David Bernhardt breaking with Brownstein Hyatt and setting up his own lobbying shop at 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just a block away from the White House. The former Secretary of the Interior, who oversaw Trump’s first assault on the Boundary Waters, will now run the Twin Metals lobbying game.
The most recent Senate lobbying disclosures show Brownstein Hyatt filing a termination report on July 16, after collecting $110,000 for lobbying the Senate, House, and the Department of the Interior on behalf of Twin Metals in the second quarter of this year.
Just one day before that, on July 15, the Bernhardt Group LLC filed a new registration, to lobby — not directly for Twin Metals, but for Brownstein Hyatt “obo” (on behalf of) Twin Metals LLC. The Bernhardt Group has the same arrangement “on behalf of” other Brownstein clients, including Barrick Gold, USA Rare Earth, Bakelite, Denver Water, and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District.
In these cases, the Bernhardt Group LLC will lobby for a lobbying firm on behalf of the lobbying firm’s clients. I suppose “subcontractor” is the charitable term here.
Former Brownstein lobbyists with a Twin Metals track record, including Kate Gonzales, William McGrath, and Luke Johnson, will lead the Bernhardt Group’s lobbying effort for their former lobbying firm on behalf of Twin Metals. Their declared focus will be “mine leasing issues.” The Group billed $40,000 in the second quarter for its work.
In 2023, Bernhardt wrote a self-promoting book all about accountability and the “failing” administrative state. So it’s a little odd to see the former Secretary of the Interior’s new lobbying firm enclosed like a Matryoshka doll within another lobbying firm — an arrangement that should raise serious questions about public accountability and what people like Bernhardt call the DC swamp.
Maybe this is just another small reminder that David Bernhardt and the America First crowd were never talking about public accountability; they are complaining that sometimes the DC bureaucracy cannot be brought readily to heel.
For years, this crowd has worked behind the scenes to discredit the very idea of American government while exerting power within it and influence over it; now they are also dismantling the parts that stand in their way, so that their clients and cronies can strip, hoard, and sell our natural resources, our public lands, and other public goods.
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#administrativeState #corruption #deconstructionOfTheAdministrativeState #governmentCapture #governmentFailure #lobbying #lobbyingDisclosures #publicGoods #resourceHoarding
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The absolute stupidity of anyone opposing the EU's Nature Restoration Law. I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Disruption is inevitable and imminent. The only question is whether it will be:
(a) disruption leading to total destruction and death, or
(b) disruption leading to survival of our species and planet.
Those are our options.
#NatureRestorationLaw #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BiodiversityCrisis #Biodiversity #MastoDaoine #Farming #Agriculture #Lobbying
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The town of #Appin is being rezoned to grow 13 times bigger but there's still no #infrastructure plan. #developers #propertylobby #lobbying #BetterNotBigger
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Sick of corrupt government, America?
Here's your to-do list:
The 1st thing?
#EndCitizensUnitedThe 2nd thing?
Abolish the #ElectoralCollegeThe 3rd thing?
#TermLimits for #CongressThe 4th thing?
Limit #CampaignSpendingThat would fix most of of it.
Wish list: Abolish #Lobbying
