This article originally appeared in OpenSecrets. First quarter federal lobbying spending blew past $1 billion for the second year in a row, a new OpenSecrets analysis of 2023 federal lobbying disclosures found. The federal budget and appropriations is consistently the most lobbied issue on Capitol Hill, and that remained true during the first three months of 2023, an OpenSecrets analysis …
California lawmakers will soon end their summer recess and return to Sacramento for the final, most consequential month of the legislative year. For a $35,000 donation to a foundation affiliated with the Legislature’s “tech caucus” — a bipartisan group helmed by Democratic Assemblymember Evan Low from Silicon Valley — companies can pick a topic they want to brief lawmakers on …
