How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low
From today’s New York Times: For many cooks, waiters and bartenders, it is an annoying entrance fee to the food-service business: Before starting a new job, they pay around $15…
EPA Director Scott Pruitt’s Trip to Australia Organized by Foreign Lobbyist
From today’s New York Times: A Washington consultant and onetime lobbyist for foreign governments played a central role in attempting to set up a trip to Australia by Scott Pruitt,…
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Trump appointees, this time in USDA, continue to violate federal ethics laws
From today’s New York Times by Danielle Ivory and Robert Faturechi: At a private meeting in September, congressional aides asked Rebeckah Adcock, a top official at the Department of Agriculture,…