Of *course* K Street thrived in 2009.

    Surely nobody actually believed that the Democrats were seriously going to cut back in the amount of lobbying that was done, given both that party’s a: natural predilections and b: habit of creating and passing ridiculously expensive and over-complicated legislation last year? The resultant explosion of lobbying cannot be a surprise… Though the Obama administration has tried to put the squeeze on lobbyists, the president’s | Read More »

    K Street is adapting perfectly well to a Democratic-controlled government.

    They’re apparently loving it, in fact. K Street rebounds as many firms sign clients at fast pace K Street’s economy appears to be on the rebound as a number of firms are reporting a sharp increase in new clients, a trend lobbyists attributed to the new president’s far-reaching agenda. The combination of a deepening recession and the distraction of the 2008 campaign, which kept Congress | Read More »