Lobbyist disclosure
Lobbyist notes to Rendell mix charm, pressure
April 27, 2009
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP, April 27) - Newly disclosed correspondence between Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and lobbyists from last year shows he received particular pressure regarding a property assessment bill he eventually vetoed and a stalled proposal to extend health coverage to more of the uninsured. Read More…
Lobbyist-lawmaker e-mails still off limits
March 03, 2009
Citizens of Pennsylvania are being given unprecedented access to the business of its public bodies with the Right-to-Know Law revisions. But we don't get to be a fly on the wall. That's what e-mail correspondence between lawmakers and lobbyists would amount to. Read More…
OFF THE FLOOR: Corbett, Scarnati, Rendell, McCall deserve reform kudos
February 27, 2009
The reform movement in Pennsylvania owes a debt to the Pennsylvania Bar Association: If the state bar hadn’t royally infuriated Attorney General Tom Corbett, we might still be without a functioning lobbyist expenditure disclosure law. Read More…
Review panel OKs PA lobbyist disclosure rules
February 26, 2009
HARRISBURG – Proposed regulations governing compliance with Pennsylvania's lobbyist disclosure law received the green light Thursday from a state regulatory panel that had rejected a version last fall.
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Lobbying law passes IRRC after November rejection
February 26, 2009
HARRISBURG – After Attorney General Tom Corbett today asked the state’s top regulatory review body to ignore its staff, reverse its November decision and approve Pennsylvania’s lobbying expenditure disclosure law, the panel did just that. Read More…
Rulings keep secret Pa. lawmaker-lobbyist contacts
February 24, 2009
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Appeals officers for both chambers of the Pennsylvania Legislature said Tuesday the new Right-to-Know Law does not give the public the right to review correspondence between lawmakers and lobbyists. Read More…


